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AuntMinnie 2014: Health information exchange lowers repeat emergency imaging

AuntMinnie

Our top article in 2014 reported on the financial benefits of health information exchanges. The researchers retrospectively analyzed repeat imaging rates for CT, chest x-ray, and ultrasound in 37 emergency departments in California and Florida that have initiated HIE. of ultrasound cases), and 29,073 repeat chest x-rays (19.5%

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CEM improves breast cancer detection rate over low-energy mammography

AuntMinnie

A team led by Joao Horvat, MD, from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York found that CEM depicted 90% of breast cancers compared with 10% on low-energy mammograms alone and 50% on low-energymammogramswith whole-breast ultrasound. Their study included data collected between 2014 and 2019 from 468 women with a median age of 54.

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Blue Earth Diagnostics, a Bracco Company, Appoints Marco Campione as Chief Executive Officer

Imaging Technology

Dr. David Gauden, a co-founder of Blue Earth Diagnostics and with the company since 2014, assumes the role of full-time CEO of Bracco subsidiary Blue Earth Therapeutics. Blue Earth Diagnostics, an indirect subsidiary of Bracco Imaging S.p.A., Bracco Imaging S.p.A., Bracco Imaging S.p.A., Board of Directors.

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Don’t Believe the Headline: Ultrasound vs CXR in Traumatic Pneumothorax Diagnosis

REBEL EM

Background: The use of ultrasound is well established for trauma patients in the emergency department, with almost every patient receiving a FAST (Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma) examination as part of the “ABC’s” of trauma. Not so FAST- Chest ultrasound underdiagnoses traumatic pneumothorax. PMID: 34932040.

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REBEL Core Cast 94.0 – SBO

REBEL EM

2.3 – 5.4) (-) LR: 0.18 (0.09 – 0.35) Ultrasound Findings Dilated loops of bowel (diameter > 2.5 2.3 – 5.4) (-) LR: 0.18 (0.09 – 0.35) Ultrasound Findings Dilated loops of bowel (diameter > 2.5 Emery Med J 2014; 31(3): 248-9. 3.6 – 55.6) (-) LR: 0.13 (0.08 – 0.20) ED US (+) LR: 9.5 (2.1

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Ultrasound detects more cancers in high-risk women with dense breasts

AuntMinnie

Supplemental breast ultrasound may have utility in imaging women with dense breasts and high risk of advanced or invasive breast cancer, a study published August 6 in Radiology found. Sample images show cancer detection at supplemental ultrasound screening after screening mammography with a negative result. (A)

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Journal Scan – This Month in Other Journals, April 2023

AJNR

Magnetic resonance–guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy restored distinctive resting-state networks in patients with essential tremor. JNS22411 Magnetic resonance–guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) thalamotomy ameliorates symptoms in patients with essential tremor (ET). Kato S, Maesawa S, Bagarinao E, et al. J Neurosurg. JAMA Neurol.

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