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What can we do to increase global access to imaging?

AuntMinnie

The First Read Initiative donated 7 Butterfly iQ+ ultrasound devices to the Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2018, we decided that instead of reading an x-ray sent to us by charities, we could read an x-ray for charities. How can I help from my office in Denver, Colorado? These were two questions I often asked myself.

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AuntMinnie 2018: NIH releases massive database of chest x-rays

AuntMinnie

Our top article in 2018 covered an important early development that supported efforts to train AI algorithms. The NIH Clinical Center is the country's largest hospital devoted entirely to clinical research, and patients who are seen there voluntarily agree to participate in clinical trials.

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Pediatric radiologists should handle breast mass cases in children

AuntMinnie

In her presentation, Valeria Peña-Trujillo, MD, from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, discussed her team’s findings, showing that breast masses in this patient population are benign and most commonly present as fibroadenoma. For example, children may associate adult hospitals with serious illness, adding to their anxiety.

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Generative AI, radiologist shortages feature in 2024 Minnies

AuntMinnie

In 2018, Fishman received an endowed professorship from Johns Hopkins. This year's Most Effective Radiology Administrator/Manager wears multiple hats at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH) and Washington University (WU) in St. We're more than 20 hospitals now," Beyder said. "I Louis, MO Dmitry Beyder. from Ukraine.

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Hospital fails to dodge $10M malpractice verdict after attempting to pin payment on radiologist

Radiology Business

A nurse punctured the 68-year-old patient's lung with a feeding tube in 2018, and radiologist Louis Jacobs, MD, subsequently failed to spot the injury on X-ray.

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Elastography predicts treatment response in colorectal cancer patients

AuntMinnie

In his presentation, Jae Seok Bae, MD, from Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea presented research that found that shear-wave velocity values measured after chemotherapy showed predictive performance in chemotherapy responsiveness in patients with colorectal cancer liver metastases.

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Pre-Hospital Antibiotics in Sepsis?

REBEL EM

PMID: 35387313 Clinical Question: Do prehospital antibiotics impact 28 day mortality, length of stay in the hospital and ICU length of stay for patients triggering sepsis compared to usual care (No prehospital antibiotics)? to 0.97; p = 0.02 to 2.07; p = 0.91 to 12.33; p = 0.26 to 0.97; p = 0.02 to 2.07; p = 0.91 to 12.33; p = 0.26

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