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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. Editor's note: As part of the celebration of AuntMinnie.com's upcoming 25th anniversary, we're presenting 25 for 25 -- a series featuring our most popular content for each of the last 25 years.

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

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milla1cf Thu, 08/03/2023 - 20:52 August 3, 2023 — RaySearch Laboratories AB announced that Lausanne Univeristy Hospital (CHUV), Switzerland, has treated their first patient using RayStation treatment planning system together with the oncology information system RayCare in combination with the Accuray CyberKnife treatment delivery system.

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The EMERGE Trial: Emergency vs Delayed Catheterization in Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

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Background: Previous observational studies published in 2015 (Geri 2015)(Vyas 2015) indicated that early cardiac catheterization in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) might improve mortality and result in more favorable neurological outcomes. JAMA Cardiol. Published online June 08, 2022. 1.15; P= 0.32 1.15; P= 0.31

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Meet the Minnies 2024 finalists

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Louis School of Medicine and completed his residency and a neuroradiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Elliot Fishman, MD, Johns Hopkins Medicine The second finalist is Elliot Fishman, MD, a category for which he took the trophy in 2001, 2007, 2014, and 2017. Deng is lauded internationally as an educator.

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4 Technologies that Will Take Teleradiology to the Next Level in 2017

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Let’s take a look at how these technologies are going to transform teleradiology in 2017 and beyond. As patient images start leaving the server rooms of hospitals and reside on virtual networks of datacenters there will be universal access to image data.

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Thrombectomy use increasing to treat VTE

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Stephanie McNamara, PhD, of Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, presented a study that found procedure rates for venous thromboembolism (VTE) increased by 75% between 2017 and 2022. However, these rates remain low considering the total number of cases per year, McNamara said. fold vs. 1.8-fold). Medicare and 46.8% commercial).

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High-Frequency Jet Ventilation Safe, Effective for Percutaneous Cryoablation of Lung Tumors

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Fintelmann, MD, from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. HFJV can be used in complex cases without significantly impacting hospital length of stay (HLOS) longer than or equal to 2 days, procedure time, or radiation exposure.” Fintelmann et al.

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