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What's brewing in RT and RA legislation, policy, and standards?

AuntMinnie

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recognized registered RAs (and radiology practitioner assistants) differently in 2019 with changes to supervision requirements under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS). Creating pressure, the U.S. For CT and MRI procedures where injected contrast media is ordered, ".

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Prehospital Traumatic Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

REBEL EM

Outcomes with advanced versus basic life support in blunt trauma. 2019 Dec 4;367:l6373. Is advanced life support better than basic life support in prehospital care? Trends in traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Perth, Western Australia from 1997 to 2014. Resuscitation.