AuntMinnie

JANUARY 18, 2024

A team of researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital has developed an age-specific dose catalog for estimating radiation exposure to children from diagnostic and interventional radiology fluoroscopy procedures. They analyzed metrics to estimate age-specific effective dose per IR procedure type and diagnostic fluoroscopy exam.

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REBEL EM

MAY 15, 2024

Follow your hospital’s protocol (if available). High Risk Patients will need hospitalization and IV antibiotics. 2014 Aug 21;124(8):1251-8; quiz 1378. doi: 10.1182/blood-2014-02-482612. Epub 2014 May 28. 2014, November 10). 2014 Jul; 58(7): 3799–3803. Neutropenic Fever: Fever (one reading of 38.3C

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 20, 2024

During a March 19 media briefing held by the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), resident Younes Jahangiri, MD, and interventional radiologist James Morrison, MD, presented a retrospective review of 66 patients (median age, 31) who underwent UAE for uncontrolled postpartum hemorrhage at their hospital between 2014 and 2022.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 23, 2024

Researchers led by Li-Da Chen, PhD, from the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China found that their combined sequential algorithm improved specificity by over 20% for predicting pathologically advanced liver fibrosis compared with the Fibrosis-4 Index (FIB-4) alone.

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REBEL EM

JANUARY 9, 2024

This finding persists when looking at a number of other infections including skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI) ( First10EM ), pyelonephritis ( Strohmeier 2014 ) and even bone and joint infections ( Li 2019 ). The use of oral temafloxacin compared with a parenteral cephalosporin in hospitalized patients with pneumonia.

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REBEL EM

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

1, 2 Its occurrence often portends worse outcomes in intubated patients, whose projected hospital course was already tenuous. Stratified by center (different hospital practices may affect results) and GCS (<8 or ≥8) (higher VAP risk inherent to lower GCS). 4, 8 Paper: Dahyot-Fizelier, C.,

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 12, 2024

To address this gap in knowledge, the researchers enrolled 237 women with early breast cancer who were undergoing adjuvant treatment with aromatase inhibitors and denosumab (60 mg every six months) at their hospital in Brescia from September 2014 to June 2018. Data analysis was conducted in June 2022.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 8, 2024

Researchers led by Mohammad Elhakim, MD, from Odense University Hospital found that a standalone AI system achieved high specificity as a first reader and for combined reading, along with moderate sensitivity for both reading scenarios. The team included data from 257,671 screening mammograms performed between 2014 and 2018.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 5, 2023

“A rapid and accurate onsite approach for determining FFR-CT should address challenges encountered in the clinical adoption of prior FFR-CT implementations,” wrote corresponding author Ronny Ralf Buechel , MD, from University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland. In this AJR accepted manuscript , 59 patients (46 men, 13 women; mean age 66.5

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Imaging Technology

MARCH 25, 2024

In 2014, he obtained a master’s degree in healthcare quality and patient safety from Northwestern. Bien Soo Tan, MBBS, FSIR, is a senior consultant in the Department of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Singapore General Hospital (SGH), and a clinical professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School.

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REBEL EM

MARCH 9, 2023

Prerost 2014) In a patient with chronic alcohol use, hallucinations should prompt consideration of acute intoxication, alcoholic hallucinosis, or delirium tremens (DT). Hamilton 2014) Patients with alcohol intoxication have an extremely high risk of intracranial pathology, and the threshold for obtaining head imaging should be very low.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In a retrospective study led by presenter Bin Zhang, MD, of The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University in China, 1,538 pairs of lumbar spine radiographs and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) results from females aged ≥ 50 years were collected between January 1, 2014, and October 10, 2019.

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REBEL EM

JANUARY 25, 2024

Interestingly, though not statistically significant, patients in the serial US group had a longer length of hospital stay compared to the control group (4d vs 3d). Additionally, the serial US group had higher hospital readmission rates on days 0-7 and 8-30 without improving hospital or 30-day mortality. 2014 Aug;2(8):638-46.

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REBEL EM

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Racial Differences in Detection of Fever Using Temporal vs Oral Temperature Measurements in Hospitalized Patients. Racial Differences in Detection of Fever Using Temporal vs Oral Temperature Measurements in Hospitalized Patients. to 0.05C; p = 0.18 Prevalence of fever in Black was 10.1% with a temporal thermometer and 13.2%

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REBEL EM

JANUARY 29, 2024

in the paper but 2.7% to ≈0.99 (p<0.001) Mean MPI/Tei Index≈ 0.47 to 4.0mg/hr typically given in EKOS therapy (See Below). CHEST 2010. PMID: 19741062 Kucher N et al. Randomized, Controlled Trial of Ultrasound-Assisted Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis for Acute Intermediate-Risk Pulmonary Embolism. PMID: 24226805 Piazza G et al.

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REBEL EM

MARCH 23, 2023

REBEL Cast Ep115 – Phenobarbital vs Lorazepam in Alcohol Withdrawal Click here for Direct Download of the Podcast Clinical question : Is a phenobarbital-based or lorazepam-based alcohol detoxification protocol associated with a lower hospital length of stay compared to Ativan for alcohol withdrawal? Paper : Hawa F et al.

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REBEL EM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Sites: Investigators recruited patients at 31 French emergency departments at university and nonuniversity hospitals Duration : June 1, 2009 to March 31, 2015. Funding: The Cardinal Health Laboratory provided Turkel thoracentesis kits to two hospitals Trial Registry: Clinicaltrials.gov: NCT01008228. Accessed 12 September 2023.

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REBEL EM

MARCH 2, 2023

2014 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Patients with Non-ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. Circulation 2014. Low O2 protocol: 3.1% aOR 0.96, 95% CI 0.86 Low O2 protocol: 10.6% aOR 0.78; 95% CI 0.63

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 26, 2024

The company, founded in 2014 by female scientist now Therona CEO Eva van Rikxoort , partners with research institutions and medical companies in their innovation programs aimed to enable breakthroughs in precision medicine for personalized treatment of pulmonary diseases.

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Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

a medical student at Boston University School of Medicine and researcher at the Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center (CIRC) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Walia, B.A. , However, lung cancer is increasingly common in never-smokers and often presents at an advanced stage."

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Global Radiology CME

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Published 2014 Oct 17. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2014-206994 Amara Ahmed is a medical student at the Florida State University College of Medicine. Formerly the Chief of Staff at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Los Angeles, California. J Ultrasound Med. 2010;29(12):1711-1715. doi: 10.7863/jum.2010.29.12.1711 BMJ Case Rep.

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REBEL EM

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The weighting from spontaneous pneumothorax was nearly 55% for drainage duration, 77% for complication rates, 96% for hospital length of stay, and 100% for recurrence rates. Similarly, pigtail catheter placement may be accessible to more clinicians, which is ultimately better for patient care, especially those at critical access hospitals.

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REBEL EM

MARCH 13, 2023

Nevertheless, mortality of prehospital traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA), and survivability with good neurologic outcome, remain the gold standards of trauma care in and out of the hospital and are effectively the criterion by which we measure outcomes in the trauma literature. An analysis of two national emergency registries. 2011;15(6):276.

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 26, 2024

The company, founded in 2014 by female scientist now Therona CEO Eva van Rikxoort , partners with research institutions and medical companies in their innovation programs aimed to enable breakthroughs in precision medicine for personalized treatment of pulmonary diseases.

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REBEL EM

MAY 11, 2023

History of liver disease, history of substance abuse disorder, and history of delirium tremens were also extracted from the hospital EMR. 11 of those were admitted to the hospital. N Engl J Med 2014 , 371 (22), 2109-2113. Strengths Investigators asked a clinically valuable question that is patient-oriented. 2) Schuckit, M.

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REBEL EM

AUGUST 18, 2022

Results: A total of 480 patients were enrolled 242 were randomized to the non-antibiotic group 238 were randomized into the group receiving antibiotic therapy There was NO STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT difference in hospitalizations. to 1.17) There was NO STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT difference in return visits to the Emergency Department.

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REBEL EM

JULY 11, 2022

Medical providers, especially Emergency Physicians, bear witness to the toll of mass shootings as we sit on the interface between the community and the hospital. In the United States, we continue to have an average of 19 mass shootings per year (Everytown Research & Policy, 2022 ).

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Global Radiology CME

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance and International Business with honors college completion and an international bank management certificate in 2014. Dr. Rice has made several media appearances as part of his ongoing commitment to public education.

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REBEL EM

JULY 18, 2022

REBEL EM : Meta-Analysis on Topical TXA for Epistaxis EMRAP: EMA review of this article (2014) EMRAP: EMA TXA vs anterior packing in patients taking anti platelets (2018) EMRAP: EMA NoPAC (2021) References: Reuben A, Appelboam A, Stevens KN, et al. Read More: REBEL EM: The NoPAC Trial – TXA for Epistaxis?

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REBEL EM

JULY 20, 2023

INTRODUCTION You’re moonlighting in a remote access hospital. EMS radios in for a burn patient and to anticipate a difficult airway. You can hear the tension in their voice. They’re rolling up now. The patient is horribly burned. PMID: 28628511. Kluge A, Frank B. Ergonomics. PMID: 24382262.

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AJNR

MAY 16, 2023

This was a cohort study of adults with anterior circulation large vessel occlusion admitted between 6 and 24 hours after last-seen-well at 5 participating Swiss stroke centers between 2014 and 2021. Given the chronology of events that led to the patient’s hospital admission, it is likely that RCVS led to his presentation of TGA.

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Northwestern EM

DECEMBER 16, 2019

2014 May;99(5):427-31. Traumatic Brain Injury–Related Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths — United States, 2007 and 2013. Schonfeld D, Bressan S, Da Dalt L, Henien MN, Winnett JA, Nigrovic LE. Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network head injury clinical prediction rules are reliable in practice.

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