REBEL EM

AUGUST 21, 2023

Mild Hypercapnia or Normocapnia after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. PMID: 37318140 Clinical Question: Does mild hypercapnia in adults with coma who have been resuscitated following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest provide favorable neurological outcomes in 6 months compared to normocapnia? Epub 2021 Feb 8. N Engl J Med.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 15, 2024

between 2021 and 2023, with a 10.7% decrease in hospital-based studies and a 2.5% Two-year compound annual growth rates (CAGR) between 2021 and 2023 show an overall average 2.9% decrease in total procedures each year, with hospital-based procedures declining by 5.5% and non-hospital procedures increasing by 1.2%.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 23, 2024

A team led by Mark Slidell, MD, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, found that CT remains the most used imaging method for diagnostic pediatric appendicitis in hospitals that don’t participate in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program - Pediatrics (NSQIP-P). hospitals over time. NSQIP-P hospital 71.7%

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Aidoc

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In less than a decade, Aidoc has transformed from an AI startup with a few algorithms to an innovator revolutionizing healthcare with a novel, platform approach to hospital care and the most FDA clearances in clinical AI. It’s one reason we recently landed on Deloitte’s Fast 500 – the list of the fastest growing companies in North America.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 15, 2024

They developed the algorithm using data from one hospital between 2009 and 2021, dividing patients into training and internal test sets with a ratio of eight to two. They assessed the algorithm's performance using the area under the receiver operating curve (AUC), comparing it to seven radiologist readers.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Agosta and co-authors wanted to investigate the pandemic’s impact on mammography volumes, breast biopsies, and patient outcomes in a large women's specialty hospital in southern Louisiana. They noted that the hospital has been actively working on outreach efforts such as social media postings, mailed letters, and mobile mammography services.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 29, 2024

its share among employer-insured individuals actually decreased between 2010 and 2021, researchers have reported. trillion in 2021 and is expected to grow by 5.4% Nominal medical imaging price increases by modality, 2010 to 2021 Modality Percentage increase CT 12.4% growth of nominal hospital imaging prices and a 22.6%

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 5, 2024

The 2021 cyberattack on the Irish healthcare system caused major disruption. In a study published on January 2 in the Journal of Cancer Policy , clinicians at the hospital assessed the impact of the incident and provided a framework for other institutions to mitigate the impact of such attacks. Rachel Keogh, and colleagues.

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Associates in Medical Imaging

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

As of 2021, breast cancer became the most common cancer globally, according to the World Health Organization. Increasing access to mammography in your hospital/practice can contribute to reducing geographic disparities in mammography screening. Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer in American women.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 3, 2024

Impeded by a smaller number of radiology-applicable quality measures, in 2021 radiologists in radiology-only practices scored significantly lower on relevant Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) gauges compared with other specialties. In contrast, those in multispecialty practices scored higher in the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 7, 2024

USARad provides imaging interpretation and database services to radiology practices, hospitals, medical clinics, diagnostic imaging centers, urgent care facilities, and multispecialty physician groups in the U.S. Nanox acquired USARad in November 2021. and five additional countries, according to Nanox.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Neiman Health Policy Institute in Reston, VA, found that office ultrasound services have been mostly performed by radiologists while hospital outpatient and inpatient services have been performed more by cardiologists and cardiac surgeons. from 2009 to 2021. Researchers led by Casey Pelzl from the Harvey L. in 2009 to 34.2%

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Researchers led by Hongping Song, MD, PhD, from Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University in China found that ABUS screening with remote reading achieved benchmark performance metrics for cancer detection when compared to mammography, with infrequent interval cancers. The background echotexture is heterogeneous.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Risk-based lung cancer screening using a model called the PLCOm2012-Update appears to mitigate racial and ethnic disparities and improve screening performance compared to a protocol based on the USPSTF 2021 criteria, researchers have found. In 2021, the U.S. comparing it to the USPSTF's 2021 recommendation. PLCOm2012-Update 15.9

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Imaging Technology

MAY 7, 2024

From 2004 to 2021, Dr. Costello was chief of the Radiology and Integrated Center for Comprehensive Excellence (ICCE) at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He is board-certified in radiology, practicing for many years at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Postman noted that in 2021, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed new reimbursement plan in 2025, which includes an add-on payment for hospitals for the use of domestically produced Tc-99m. At the time, the U.S. was exporting HEU to foreign-owned reactors to produce Mo-99.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 31, 2024

To address this knowledge gap, the researchers analyzed findings in 480 patients (mean age, 66 years old) with ischemic heart disease who underwent N-13 ammonia PET scans at Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital. Patients underwent the scans between January 2017 and January 2021.

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Imaging Technology

APRIL 4, 2024

Neiman Health Policy Institute (HPI) study shows that radiologists in radiology-only practices score significantly lower in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) in 2021. In 2021, there were only 9 available MIPS measures for diagnostic radiology, compared to 65 in family medicine.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 25, 2024

Lopez and co-authors studied the relationship between NIH research funding awarded to radiology departments and Lown Institute Hospitals Index rankings for inclusivity and community benefit. The index measures the social responsibility of more than 3,600 hospitals across the U.S. based radiology departments.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 2, 2024

Electronic cigarettes entered the market in 2007, and, as of 2021, had become the second most used tobacco product among American adults, the group noted. In 2021, the task force expanded the pool of eligible individuals by lowering the screening start age from 55 to 50 and smoking pack years from 30 to 20.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 18, 2024

An automated protocoling algorithm used with a hospital's electronic health record (EHR) software reduces radiologist CT exam workload, a research team from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has reported. The findings could make busy radiology departments more efficient, wrote a team led by Ryan Chung, MD.

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Imaging Technology

JANUARY 17, 2024

s accepted manuscript extracted claims from Optum’s de-identified Clinformatics Data Mart Database for hospital-based specialties occurring the same day as in-network emergency visits or inpatient stays (January 2017–December 2021). Christensen et al.’s After identifying OON claims, claims were then batched via simulated IDR rules.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Injected amounts of the tracer have dropped by 66% between 2000 and 2021, they found. To quantify these developments, the group analyzed administered doses in 243 children and adolescents who underwent 466 clinical F-18 FDG-PET/CT or PET/MRI scans of the body at their hospital between January 2000 and May 2021.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 30, 2024

"[We found that the] volume of AI-segmented intraprostatic tumors was an independent prognostic factor for outcomes of localized prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy and radiation therapy," wrote a group led by David Yang, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. The group used an AI segmentation algorithm (ThennU-Net v.1.0)

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 7, 2023

A team led by presenter Raquelle El Alam, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, found that despite the application of Lung-RADS guidelines, surgical resection of benign nodules identified on low-dose CT (LDCT) does happen. But lung cancer screening does produce false-positive results.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

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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Imaging Technology

JUNE 16, 2023

2021 Sep 15;81(18):4808-4821. Epub 2021 Jul 28. [4] milla1cf Fri, 06/16/2023 - 20:13 June 16, 2023 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A., As part of the collaboration, IBA will enable the FLASH configuration in the clinical proton therapy system of PARTICLE to facilitate preclinical research on FLASH therapy. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-21-1500.

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UCSF Biomedical Imaging

MARCH 27, 2023

In September 2021, Kevin Tuckman, a 48-year-old sales manager, was doing a demo for a potential client in Foster City when he started having difficulty talking. "I Eventually, Jackson said: "You aren't OK, we need to take you to the hospital."

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European Radiology

JANUARY 24, 2024

Jake Cowen is a radiology registrar at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, UK. Georgios Festas is currently working as a senior radiology resident at the 2nd Radiology Department at Attikon University Hospital, Athens. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin. James Ryan , is currently a 2nd-year radiology resident at St.

Radiology 119

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AuntMinnie

JULY 24, 2024

Interventional radiologists received an aggregate of over $60 million in payments from drug and medical device companies between 2017 and 2021, but most of this money is going to just a few of these physicians, according to research published July 24 in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Insight CXR has been used as an aid to help interpret all posterior-anterior and anterior-posterior chest x-rays at the authors’ hospital since March 2021, with the group continually evaluating its impact in clinical practice. needed clinical management,” wrote lead author Shin Hye Hwang, MD, and colleagues.

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Everything Rad

JUNE 28, 2023

Reading Time: 8 minutes read By Dr. Niall Sheehy, MB, MRCP, FFR RCSI, St James’s Hospital -Trinity College Dublin. In May 2021, St James’s Hospital in Dublin was one of 54 public hospitals affected when the Health Service Executive (HSE) was the victim of a Cyber Attack by Conti, a sophisticated, financially-motivated criminal gang.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 5, 2023

To shed light on current and anticipated claims trends, the researchers searched commercial and Medicare payer data on arterial and venous thrombectomy procedures performed to treat VTE between January 2017 and December 2021. fold vs. 1.8-fold). Medicare and 46.8% commercial). The use of thrombectomy to treat VTE is growing rapidly.

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REBEL EM

JULY 1, 2024

Balkan Med J 2021. Balkan Med J 2021. Cureus 2021. Comparison of BPAP S/T and Average Volume-Assured Pressure Support Modes for Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure in the Emergency Department: A Randomized Controlled Trial. AVAPS: 0.07 P = 0.015 PaCO2 Excretion in 1 st Hour BPAP S/T: 4.75 AVAPS: 10.20 AVAPS: 0.07 AVAPS: 10.20

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AuntMinnie

JULY 9, 2024

Many women who are recalled from breast cancer screening receive post-screening work-up in the hospital with full-field digital mammography. Women in the trial were randomly assigned to either a CEM branch or a control branch for conventional imaging as a primary workup tool in two general and two academic hospitals.

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Imaging Technology

AUGUST 30, 2023

milla1cf Wed, 08/30/2023 - 14:45 August 30, 2023 — A published study by researchers at the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center shows that multiple beams and intervals in delivery during FLASH proton therapy treatment reduced skin-saving effects in preclinical models.

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