AuntMinnie

JANUARY 8, 2024

In a study that included 104 patients, PET/MRI provided high sensitivity and specificity for determining underlying causes, especially in patients with elevated C-reactive protein, a blood biomarker of inflammation, according to lead author Tomas Rohan, MD, of University Hospital Brno in Brno, Czechia. “To

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 7, 2024

Although use of CT colonography (CTC) for colorectal cancer screening doubled between 2019 and 2021, overall utilization may still be low, according to research published in the September edition of Clinical Imaging. Upcoming Medicare reimbursement may change that. However, use increased to 3.5% vs. > 400% of federal poverty level).

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 26, 2023

A steady increase in the volume of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) exams is occurring, especially at mid- to high-level community hospitals across the country. If staff choose the right subgroup of patients to examine with CCTA imaging, they can save their hospital, healthcare system, and insurance companies a lot of money.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 2, 2024

tesla MRI AI body composition analysis Cardiac PET Cryo/thermoablation CT colonography Genicular artery embolization Hyperpolarized xenon-129 MRI PET/MRI Photon-counting CT Radiomics Theranostics Whole-body MRI screening Image of the Year 3D PET/MR image.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 6, 2024

Neuroscience, particularly in the study of psychiatric diseases and neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s, has been constrained by technological and biological limitations, leaving many aspects of the brain structure and functionality largely unexplored, noted GE Healthcare in a written statement about the unveiling.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 1, 2023

The Company received 510(k) clearance to market its single-source X-ray device, known as the Nanox Cart X-Ray System, in April 2021. Medical imaging is essential for detecting, diagnosing, and managing disease, guiding treatment decisions for improved health outcomes. While access to medical imaging is relatively high in the U.S.

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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

JUNE 6, 2024

A British Heart Foundation-funded study published May 29 in The Lancet co-authored by Chan used AI to analyze CCTA scans and clinical data from over 40,000 people at eight hospitals in the U.K. Systemic inflammatory syndromes contribute to unique elevated atherosclerotic risk and incident cardiovascular disease, according to Weber.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Opportunistic low-dose CT (LDCT) lung cancer screening can reduce mortality from the disease by almost 50%, research published December 12 in JAMA Network Open has found. The study that included 5,234 patients who underwent lung cancer screening at Weihai Municipal Hospital Healthcare Group, Weihai City, China, between 2016 and 2021.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Courtesy of Dr Michael Yam, lead for 3D printing centre in Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). Workforce issues Singapore is a young and very small country with challenges of a rapidly aging population, rising chronic disease load (e.g., Proof-of-value remains the greatest hurdle for sustained implementation."

Global Radiology 106

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

But even though the pool of patients eligible for lung cancer screening was expanded in 2021, uptake remains low. The study included 32,165 women who underwent screening mammography between November 2019 and December 2022 at two academic hospitals. There's much more to be done to encourage women to get LCS, Sandler said.

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Imaging Technology

JANUARY 12, 2024

CMS created two new reimbursement codes for use in the hospital outpatient setting, effective Jan. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a Breakthrough Device in 2021 for its potential in managing motion in lung tumors, SCINTIX therapy was FDA-cleared in 2023 for treating lung and bone tumors that arise from primary or metastatic disease.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 8, 2024

Because factors such as financial distress have been linked to higher mortality rates among patients with cancer -- in part because people may not get the screening exams they need and thus present with more advanced disease, wrote a team led by Samilia Obeng-Gyasi, MD, of the Ohio State University in Columbus. Of the total study cohort, 10.6%

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2024

His research interests include using structural and functional MRI -- particularly ultrahigh-field, 7-tesla MRI -- to map brain microstructure and develop neurosurgical treatment of brain tumors, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia. Dmitry Beyder.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 12, 2024

This study included imaging from 143 patients with active abdominopelvic cancer and 64 patients without any active cancer who underwent whole-body PET/CT scans at Osaka University Hospital between January 2020 and August 2021. Extending the study to other institutions is an important future task, they wrote. “We

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Imaging Technology

APRIL 2, 2024

The availability of these offerings – including the MIM SurePlan and MIM Symphony families, MIM Maestro, MIM Encore, and more – is in alignment with GE HealthCare’s precision care strategy, which aims to deliver innovative digital solutions across care pathways for more precise, connected, and efficient care across disease states. "We

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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). A repeat search was completed in May 2021 & November 2022. 2021 May 12:34894211015590. Podcast Blog.

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REBEL EM

JANUARY 25, 2024

It can be used to distinguish between various conditions, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation, acute heart failure (AHF), pleural effusion, pulmonary edema, pericardial effusion, pneumothorax, and pneumonia [2,3]. thus prolonging their hospital stay and increasing readmission rates.

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REBEL EM

APRIL 29, 2024

CVC vs PIV The critically ill patient is often associated with pathology that makes IV access difficult such as shock state, hypovolemia, obesity, IV drug abuse, end-stage renal disease, cardiac arrest, as well as other conditions. 2021 PMID: 34273470 12 Petitpas F et al. Resusc Plus. 2023 PMID: 37502742 11 Schwalbach KT et al.

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Imaging Technology

JULY 19, 2024

This agreement follows GE HealthCare’s acquisition of Caption Health in 2023, which added new capabilities in AI-enabled image guidance and AI development expertise to aid in early disease detection in other areas. “I AHEC online, Sept 27, 2021. These technologies are especially vital to relieving burdens placed on sonographers.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 14, 2023

When information-blocking provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act took effect in 2021, providers faced the need to make test results -- including radiology reports -- accessible to patients at the same time they were available to referring physicians. felt negative; and 9.3% felt positive. Hailey Choi, MD, of UCSF.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Time-dependent diffusion MRI-based microstructural mapping helps predict breast cancer molecular subtypes and treatment response in women with the disease, researchers have reported. The research included 408 women with breast cancer who underwent a time-dependent diffusion MRI exam between February 2021 and May 2023.

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Imaging Technology

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

milla1cf Thu, 09/21/2023 - 16:17 September 21, 2023 — Declines in cardiovascular procedure volumes observed early in the COVID-19 pandemic greatly recovered in 2021 in the U.S. Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death for both men and women,” said lead researcher Andrew J. Einstein , M.D., published to date.

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Imaging Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Research presented at ASTRO’s 2021 Annual Meeting suggested genomic testing may be better at predicting the risk for metastases than conventional prostate cancer tests, such as the Gleason score and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels. The median age in both groups was 68 years, and racial distributions were similar (60% white, 35.1%

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Imaging Technology

MARCH 25, 2024

Vedantham has played a critical role in refining IR treatments for venous disease through his ground-breaking research, which has delivered us the robust evidence needed to guide high-quality venous care for patients worldwide,” said SIR Foundation Chair Maureen P. Louis, where he also serves as assistant dean for clinical research. “Dr.

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Vesta Teleradiology

AUGUST 24, 2023

The rise is driven by chronic diseases, an aging population, and post-Covid-19 demand recovery. For instance, OECD data for 2021 showed 84.5 Opportunities arise from the growing demand for imaging services, especially for chronic diseases, and the development of new modalities like 3D mammography and MRI-guided focused ultrasound.

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REBEL EM

AUGUST 14, 2023

001) Hospital mortality: Placebo 22.8% The most common reasons for exclusion included severe liver and kidney dysfunction, severe primary disease, and diagnosis of sepsis ≥48hrs. 2021 Apr 26;2021:6621368. This varies from the 2001 definition, which used SIRS criteria and was thought to overly focus on inflammation.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 22, 2024

Adding dynamic CT perfusion (DynCTP) to cardiac CT angiography (CCTA) shortens time to diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD), according to research presented at the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) meeting in Washington, DC.

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Imaging Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Since 2021, the Naeotom Alpha has been the only commercially available system with this technology available for clinical use, and more than a million patients have already been scanned worldwide. tim.hodson Mon, 12/02/2024 - 13:38 Dec. Photon-counting computed tomography will replace conventional CT examinations in the medium term.

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Vesta Teleradiology

JANUARY 31, 2023

A 2021 research study by Pew Research Center revealed 93% of Americans use the Internet in their homes , which shows the usefulness that virtual medical care for less serious patient needs can provide. Doctors and specialists no longer need to travel to the hospital to provide critical care with Tele-ICU.

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European Radiology

JANUARY 16, 2023

Dear Editor, We read with interest the article by Sun Huh et al [1] in the Jul 2021 issue of European Radiology. disease) in the enrolled sample is known to influence diagnostic tests [2]. Since hospital admission criteria and study eligibility criteria were different, the enrolled sample differed accordingly.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The first female editor in chief of RSNA’s peer-reviewed RadioGraphics journal since 2021, Menias splits her time between Mayo Clinic, where she’s a specialist in abdominal imaging, and the journal, where she is achieving her first goals of expanding RadioGraphics as a learning platform.

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REBEL EM

AUGUST 18, 2022

Annals of Surgery, 2021. Results: A total of 480 patients were enrolled 242 were randomized to the non-antibiotic group 238 were randomized into the group receiving antibiotic therapy There was NO STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT difference in hospitalizations. The Paper : Mora-López, L. difference, 95% CI 4.22

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REBEL EM

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Ammar 2021, Pham 2022, Parsel 2022) However, Korebey et al. Korebey 2021) These studies were retrospective in design and are subject to inherent limitations. The synthetic control arm was obtained retrospectively from one of three acute care hospitals in the Hartford Healthcare network between 12/1/2016 and 8/30/2020.

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REBEL EM

DECEMBER 1, 2022

While clinically relevant and heavily debated, the primary outcome is disease-oriented and not patient-oriented. The weighting from spontaneous pneumothorax was nearly 55% for drainage duration, 77% for complication rates, 96% for hospital length of stay, and 100% for recurrence rates. Air is Air?

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Aidoc

JANUARY 3, 2023

AI will impact the patient throughout their clinical journey, whether they know it or not, both within and outside the walls of the hospital. According to a survey conducted in 2021, nearly 40% of respondents were engaged in the AI market or actively assessing the role AI would play in their health system. dollars worldwide.

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Healthcare Healthcare Inpatient Hospital 52

REBEL EM

JUNE 26, 2024

Pharmacotherapy 2021; 41(7): 598-607. Definition: A serum potassium level > 5.5 patients can jump from peaked T waves to sine wave) Management Basics: ABCs, IV, O 2 , Cardiac Monitor and, 12-lead EKG Identify + treat underlying cause of hyperkalemia (i.e. rhabdomyolysis -> hydration) Remove inciting factors (i.e.

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