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Clinical Conundrums: Should You Give the First Dose of Antibiotics IV Before Discharging Home on Oral Antibiotics?

REBEL EM

Clinical Scenario: A 45-year-old woman with hypertension presents with a productive cough and fever. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). Her vitals are: HR 115, BP 120/80, Temp 102.8, O2 Sat 99% on RA, RR 18. 1997; 24(3):457-67.

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Physicians collect $13B in payment perks from industry sources, but only 3% goes to radiologists

Radiology Business

Members of the specialty received over 452,000 such payments for a total of $357 million between 2017-2022, experts wrote in Clinical Imaging.

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RayCare in Clinical Use with CyberKnife at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) in Switzerland

Imaging Technology

Lausanne University Hosptial (CHUV) has been a RaySearch customer since 2017. In 2021, the relationship with the clinic was extended as CHUV ordered additional RayStation functionality for automated treatment planning and segmentation using artificial intelligence machine learning techniques, as well as support for CyberKnife planning.

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Interview format 2016-2017

Radiology Cafe

A summary of the ST1 clinical radiology interview format from the recent 2016/17 recruitment round. This article, however, is written by an ST1 trainee and aims to cover the content of interview stations from the most recent 2016/2017 intake only, with examples of questions asked last year. What will you miss about ward based medicine?

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Meet the Minnies 2024 finalists

AuntMinnie

Most Influential Radiology Researcher Erik Middlebrooks, MD, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL Erik Middlebrooks, MD. One of this year's nominations for Most Influential Radiology Researcher is Erik Middlebrooks, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. Elliot Fishman, MD.

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Clinical Conundrum: Should We Always Treat Fever in Patients with Sepsis?

REBEL EM

Clinical Scenario: A 45-year-old woman presents with cough and shortness of breath. A large observational study of > 2000 patients found an association with fever at presentation and ICU survival for patients with severe sepsis or septic shock ( Sunden-Culberg 2017 ). Crit Care Med 2017; 45(4): 591-9. Sat 93% on RA.

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AuntMinnie 2017: Pull linear MRI contrast from market, European group says

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Our top article in 2017 covered an EU regulatory body's controversial recommendation to pull four gadolinium-based contrast agents from the market. The PRAC noted that no clinical diseases or even symptoms have been reported in connection with gadolinium deposition.

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