Imaging Technology

JUNE 27, 2023

The potential impact of nuclear medicine in the care of patients dealing with cancer, heart disease, brain disease, and other challenges is enormous,” she said. “We She then completed a nuclear medicine residency in 1989 at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Imaging Technology

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We could not have achieved these interim clinical results without the support of the doctors and patients who were part of this registry study from across the nation," said Brachman. This robust emerging scientific data reinforces the impact GammaTile Therapy has on local control for patients with brain metastases. "As Amsbaugh; Catherine S.

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Vesta Teleradiology

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Physician Shortages The Indian Health Service (IHS) faces significant physician shortages , with a vacancy rate of 25% in 2018. Testimonies revealed that IHS facilities face significant staffing shortages, with a national vacancy rate of 25%, which can escalate to 50% in rural and frontier tribal clinics in Nevada.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The findings offer another way to foster breast cancer early detection, improve patient survival rates across different populations, and reduce disparity in survival rates, said study lead author Leslie Lamb, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston in a statement. “In Image and caption courtesy of RSNA.

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 26, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its latest update of its AI-based clinical software LungQ (v3.0.0). The announcement noted that Blackford provides healthcare professionals access to an extensive portfolio of more than 130 AI solutions designed to augment clinical accuracy and drive efficiency and improve patient outcomes.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 4, 2024

Bartholomew's Hospital in London. She and colleagues assessed the performance of this type of protocol in women at high risk for breast cancer via a study that included 236 shortened breast MRI exams performed between 2018 and 2021. Four readers blinded to patients' prior imaging, history, and disease outcomes reviewed the scans.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 3, 2024

Prior research exploring potential ties between family history and fibroid development is limited by several factors, including reliance on hospital-based participant selection, poorly defined measures of family history, and nonsystematic fibroid assessment. cm or larger in diameter and to measure fibroid growth.

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Imaging Technology

JULY 25, 2023

The results also follow those of the PICTURE clinical trial published in Investigative Radiology in May, 2023, which found the non-inferior quality of morphologic assessment of lesions of the brain and spine with VUEWAY compared with Gadavist. mmol/kg gadopiclenol (VUEWAY) with 0.1 mmol/kg versus a full dose of gadobutrol (0.1 mmol/kg). [i]

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Imaging Technology

MAY 31, 2023

We can’t treat what we don’t see, which is why we require precise image quality to help diagnose, plan treatment for, and monitor disease,” explains Prof. Medical imaging is a crucial tool for diagnosing disease, identifying a course of treatment, and determining whether therapy is successful for millions of patients around the world.

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REBEL EM

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Background: Pneumothorax management is a common clinical condition in the emergency department (ED) occurring in patients of varying ages and caused by multiple etiologies, including spontaneous, traumatic, and iatrogenic pneumothorax. 153,5 (2018): 1201-1212. 153,5 (2018): 1201-1212. Article: Chang, Su-Huan et al. “A

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 26, 2024

Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approvals of radiopharmaceuticals for neuroendocrine tumors and then for prostate cancer, theranostics has picked up momentum in clinical practice, propelled by encouraging research. Traditional treatments didn't slow the disease in these patients, noted UT’s Vroman. please insert video here.

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REBEL EM

MARCH 9, 2023

The situation is more dangerous given the high incidence of chronic disease, critical illness, and acute trauma. Klein 2018) Despite the high risk of pathology and decompensation, many patients with presumed alcohol intoxication can be evaluated and discharged without any labs or imaging.

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Future Teleradiology

APRIL 3, 2020

Using public-private partnership hospitals will be set up with a financial contribution from Government of India -GOI to extend facilities to 112 Aspirational Districts making ‘Ayushman Bharat’ viable for weaker sections. 5 lakhs under the ‘Ayushman Bharat’ scheme has raised the preference for private hospitals.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 20, 2024

Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approvals of radiopharmaceuticals for neuroendocrine tumors and then for prostate cancer, theranostics has picked up momentum in clinical practice, propelled by encouraging research. Traditional treatments didn't slow the disease in these patients, noted UT’s Vroman.

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 5, 2023

The MR-Linac was invented by UMC Utrecht and has been used in daily clinical practice since 2018. Result: patients don’t have to visit hospital as often as before. Unfortunately, with 60 percent of them, the disease has already advanced locally. That is, it makes use of ultrasound to help fight head and neck cancers.

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REBEL EM

APRIL 17, 2023

Background: The increased utility and accessibility of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has allowed clinicians the freedom to rethink their diagnostic approach for many common diseases, including peritonsillar abscess (PTA). Clinical evaluation may prove difficult since many PTA and peritonsillar cellulitis symptoms overlap.

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Global Radiology CME

JULY 26, 2021

The expanding phenotype of COL4A1 and COL4A2 mutations: clinical data on 13 newly identified families and a review of the literature. Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn, Elsevier, 2018, pp. Obstetric Imaging: Fetal Diagnosis and Care, Elsevier, 2018, pp. Annals of Neurology. 56 (2): 287–290. doi: 10.1002/ana.20184.

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 29, 2023

milla1cf Thu, 06/29/2023 - 21:10 June 29, 2023 — Blue Earth Therapeutics , a Bracco company and emerging leader in the development of innovative next generation therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals, today announced highlights from early clinical and preclinical studies of 177Lu-rhPSMA-10.1 177Lu-rhPSMA-10.1 177Lu-rhPSMA-10.1 177Lu-rhPSMA-10.1

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Manipal Hospitals Radiology Group

AUGUST 26, 2020

Now in 2019, in Circulation, the Guidelines on Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease by American College of Cardiology (ACC)/ American Heart Association (AHA) recommend considering CAC scores in decision making to assess risk. They go on to state borderline to intermediate risk patients with CAC=0 do not need statin therapy. There was 0.98

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 19, 2024

Deep-learning models could have potential as predictive tools for breast cancer prognosis, a study published January 17 in Clinical Breast Cancer has found. The researchers included data from 1,242 patients recruited between 2013 and 2018 and divided them into training (n = 1,014) and testing groups (n = 228).

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 6, 2024

As of January 2023, hybrid iterative reconstruction (HIR) -- a blend of FBP and MBIR -- was the state-of-the-art image reconstruction technique, according to Lennart Koetzier; Martin Willemink, PhD; and colleagues, who wrote about the technical principles and clinical prospects for the RSNA journal Radiology. Tim Leiner, MD, PhD.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The technology figured prominently in five Minnies categories, including Hottest Clinical Procedure. And for the first time since 2018, physician burnout did not win the Minnies award for Biggest Threat to Radiology. Notably, AI was even more prevalent this year among the Minnies winners than in the past.

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Radiology Cafe

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Within weeks of his announcement hospitals world-wide had taken the initiative to open up X-ray rooms, which gave rise to the first radiology departments. (3) Portrait of Sir Godfrey Hounsfield (1919-2004) The first clinical CT scan: Atkinson Morley's Hospital, October 1971 Credit: impactscan.org.

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REBEL EM

AUGUST 7, 2023

The authors of the AID-ICU study aim to determine whether haloperidol leads to a significantly greater number of days alive and out of the hospital at 90 days than placebo in ICU patients with delirium. Paper: Andersen-Ranberg NC,et al; AID-ICU Trial Group. Haloperidol for the Treatment of Delirium in ICU Patients. N Engl J Med. 2022 Dec 29.

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REBEL EM

AUGUST 14, 2023

Effect of an Herbal-Based Injection on 28-Day Mortality in Patients With Sepsis: The EXIT-SEP Randomized Clinical Trial. PMID: 37126332 Clinical Question: In adult patients diagnosed with sepsis, does XBJ reduce 28-day mortality when added to standard care compared to placebo? 001) Hospital mortality: Placebo 22.8%

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AuntMinnie

JULY 26, 2024

External testing of previously developed AI models using datasets covering different demographics and settings is vital to prove their generalizability, noted first authors Jong Hyuk Lee, a doctoral student at Seoul National University Hospital, and Dongheon Lee, PhD, of Chungnam National University Hospital.

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REBEL EM

JANUARY 29, 2024

PMID: 37188358 Clinical Question: What is the efficacy and safety of low-dose (25mg) prolonged administration (over 6hrs) of alteplase in patients with massive PE? Click here for Direct Download of the Podcast Paper: Aykan AC et al. Reduced-Dose Systemic Fibrinolysis in Massive Pulmonary Embolism: A Pilot Study. Clin Exp Emerg Med 2023.

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REBEL EM

JANUARY 25, 2024

Background: Point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) is a valuable clinical tool in the assessment of acute dyspnea. Thus, PoCUS is an important facilitator that can narrow differential diagnoses and guide treatment plans with better predictive value than traditional clinical practice [6]. Article: Arvig MD, Lassen AT, Gæde PH, et al.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 1, 2023

The performance improved on the Brock score, a test currently used in clinic, which scored 0.672. The new model also performed comparably to the Herder score, another test currently used in clinic, which had an AUC of 0.83. He was then referred to Dr Richard Lee at The Royal Marsden for follow-up care.

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Imaging Technology

APRIL 3, 2023

These capabilities will help them develop and deliver products with the potential to improve care for even more patients with serious disease. “In Ac-225, both used to deliver therapeutic doses of radiation to destroy cancer cells in patients with serious disease, while sparing healthy tissue.

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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. PMID: 38262428 Clinical Question: Does antibiotic prophylaxis with a single dose of ceftriaxone reduce the incidence of early VAP in adults with severe brain injury who require mechanical ventilation?

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REBEL EM

JANUARY 23, 2023

Second-generation H1 antihistamines (cetirizine, loratadine, and fexofenadine) do not cross the blood-brain barrier as easily (Bernstein J 2018). Clinical Question: Is IV cetirizine noninferior to IV diphenhydramine for the treatment of acute urticaria? Ann Emerg Med 2020. Patients were randomized in a 1:1 ratio.

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REBEL EM

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Amrein 2018) A small, single-center, before-and-after study utilized a sepsis cocktail consisting of IV thiamine, hydrocortisone, and vitamin C and discovered a significant decrease in mortality compared to the control group. A double-blind, randomized clinical trial design increases generalizability and external validity.

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Manipal Hospitals Radiology Group

DECEMBER 18, 2019

GLOBOCAN – 2018 India Cancer Fact sheet states that 28,696 new cases had been detected and 17,184 deaths related to prostate cancer have happened in the year of 2018 in India and the estimate of 5 year prevalence of prostatic malignancy was 47,558. These patients are at intermediate risk to develop advanced disease.

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REBEL EM

JULY 28, 2022

However, when the threat of disease outweighs the risk from any possible complication, the decision to anticoagulate is easy to conclude. The American College of Chest Physicians clinical practice guideline recommends surveillance instead of anticoagulation in patients with subsegmental PE without DVT.

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REBEL EM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

PMID: 31148204 Clinical Question: Does a TEG-guided transfusion strategy lead to lower use of blood products compared with standard practice (guided by PT and INR) in acute non-variceal bleeding among patients with advanced cirrhosis? Hepatology. 2020;71(1):235-246. Significant coagulopathy: INR > 1.8

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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. Neutropenic Fever: Fever (one reading of 38.3C This will have been formulated based on local resistance patterns and likely with input from your institution’s oncologists.

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