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JANUARY 18, 2024

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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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 17, 2024

Cardiac PET MPI has emerged as a key tool for diagnosing and managing patients with cardiovascular diseases, especially coronary artery disease, yet overall it remains underutilized in the U.S., The full article can be found here. Strategies to increase the use of cardiac PET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in the U.S.

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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

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. Charalambos Antoniades, British Heart Foundation chair of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Oxford and lead author of The Lancet article.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 2, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT are rapidly being integrated into clinical practice, with several LLM-based pilot programs underway in hospitals and clinicians beginning to use ChatGPT to communicate with patients and draft clinical notes, according to the authors. The full article can be found here. prevalence estimates.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 22, 2024

“Our study showed that the availability of PET/CT prior to the [percutaneous needle lung biopsy] improves the diagnostic biopsy rates,” wrote lead author Konstantinos Stefanidis, MD, of King’s College Hospital in London, and colleagues. Patient with extensive lung and pleural disease. (2a) The full article can be found here.

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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

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. A designated team member (e.g.,

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 30, 2024

The article was published January 25 in Neurological Research and Practice. MRI is the imaging gold standard for diagnosis, yet identifying the disease using this method remains challenging, the researchers wrote. years depending on the patient case), all three patients remained stable without new disease relapses,” they noted.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 22, 2023

“F-18 FDG-PET/CT scanning is crucial in identifying tumor lesions, determining staging, and devising treatment strategies for individuals diagnosed with NK/T-cell lymphoma,” wrote lead author Huixia Geng, MD, of the Third Hospital of Shanxi Medical University. The full article can be found here.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 1, 2024

A group at Mount Sinai Hospital developed a “pipeline” of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to analyze lung areas in DDR image sequences from patients. The full article is available here. The model performed well enough to act as a surrogate to standard pulmonary function tests, they found.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 18, 2024

New articles will be published each Monday until our official anniversary at RSNA 2024. Our top article in 2018 covered an important early development that supported efforts to train AI algorithms. Such algorithms can help teach computers how to detect and diagnose disease, the NIH said in a September 27 announcement.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 3, 2024

For this third in a series of articles covering the rise of theranostics, AuntMinnie.com asked several of those at the forefront to discuss freestanding theranostics center development, their roles, and some of the obstacles they've encountered with introducing the new model of care. Now sites are now getting cycled up to start doing it."

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 6, 2024

We're seeing now is that cardiac CT is a fantastic test to rule out the presence of flow-limiting coronary disease," Leiner said, adding that the future is not about single algorithms. The program addresses the heart and vasculature and complements Mayo Clinic's ongoing work in cardiac AI and AI coronary analysis.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 4, 2024

Up to now, most Lu-177 DOTATATE therapies for the treatment of somatostatin receptor-positive neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) have, for example, been administered only within the top 20-40 of between 300 and 400 sites -- larger academic centers like UCSF or private practice hospitals -- in the U.S., Hope added. Morris continued in the JNM.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 20, 2024

A team of researchers led by Jianyong Wei of Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital in China trained a deep-learning algorithm using CTA exams gathered from multiple hospitals and discovered in a retrospective analysis that their algorithm yielded comparable results to the original radiology report findings.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We hope you enjoy our article as well as the opportunity to hear directly from the recipients. Under a long-standing agreement between the state and the federal government, all Maryland hospitals receive a single, annual global payment for their services, similar to capitation.

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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 has published 76 peer-reviewed journal articles and 24 book chapters and has been an invited speaker for 180 presentations.

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Imaging Technology

APRIL 18, 2023

Jeong Min Lee Professor Jeong Min Lee is a professor in the radiology department at Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea. He has also authored influential papers regarding biliary cancer diagnoses, dual-energy CT and functional MRI for oncologic diseases, as well as radiofrequency tumor ablation for liver cancers.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 7, 2025

The results offer additional incentives for using bpMRI to diagnose the disease, wrote a team led by Emmanuel Salinas-Miranda, MD, of the Ottawa Hospital in Canada. Access the full article here. The group's findings were published March 5 in the American Journal of Roentgenology. "[Our

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The model performed well, and you can read about the study in this issue’s featured article. A story we published on a recent study in Radiology revealed that radiologists outperformed four commercially available AI algorithms when diagnosing lung diseases on chest x-rays, for instance. Click here to watch the interview.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 11, 2024

New articles will be published each Monday until our official anniversary at RSNA 2024. Our top article in 2017 covered an EU regulatory body's controversial recommendation to pull four gadolinium-based contrast agents from the market.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

The authors of this study aimed to evaluate whether artificial intelligence, specifically a deep neural network (DNN), was able to distinguish between tuberculosis (TB) or nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease (NTM-LD) patients through chest X-rays (CXRs) from suspected mycobacterial lung disease.

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Imaging Technology

APRIL 26, 2023

The guideline emphasizes the need for a multidisciplinary team approach to guide treatment decisions for oligometastatic disease, a description for cancer that reaches a state in which the patient has a small number of metastases in addition to a primary tumor. The guideline is published in Practical Radiation Oncology.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 8, 2023

Medicine is no exception, with AI/ML being used for the diagnosis, prognosis, risk assessment, and treatment response assessment of various diseases. For example, sourcing images from a single hospital or from a single type of scanner can result in a biased data collection. Read the Gold Open Access article by K.

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REBEL EM

MAY 27, 2024

Given that these two treatment options operate via different physiologic mechanisms, the author of this study postulates that MVM and IV adenosine could be combined synergistically to convert PSVT with better success rates than either treatment individually and with better safety profiles. Article: Xiao, L., Qiu, S., & Zhang, Q.

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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]. Article: Arvig MD, Lassen AT, Gæde PH, et al. Emerg Med J. 2023;40(10):700-707.

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REBEL EM

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Article: Chang, Su-Huan et al. “A Limitations There is no mention of whether authors checked reference lists of articles or searched for registered but unpublished trials. While clinically relevant and heavily debated, the primary outcome is disease-oriented and not patient-oriented. 153,5 (2018): 1201-1212. Air is Air?

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REBEL EM

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Article: Marx T, Joly LM, Parmentier AL, et al. Sites: Investigators recruited patients at 31 French emergency departments at university and nonuniversity hospitals Duration : June 1, 2009 to March 31, 2015. Including only hospitals with extensive specialist networks may not reflect the conditions in less-resourced hospitals.

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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). Article: Kim DJ et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2023 Jan 10. Epub ahead of print.

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REBEL EM

JULY 3, 2023

Article: Rossi N et al. What They Did: Researchers conducted a multicenter, retrospective cohort study in three community hospitals and two freestanding emergency departments. to 104) The diltiazem with calcium group had a higher percentage with chronic kidney disease and malignancy CKD: 8.6% Am J Emerg Med. to 106) vs 75.5

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REBEL EM

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Article: Hilsden R, Mitrou N, Hawel J, Leeper R, Thompson D, Myslik F. PMID: 36111140 Clinical Question: In adult patients presenting to the emergency department with suspected biliary disease diagnosed by POCUS, does subsequent confirmatory RUS imaging change surgical management plan compared to decisions made based solely on POCUS findings?

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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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Aidoc

MARCH 23, 2023

Headline 1: ‘Black boxes’ make their way into hospital ORs Main Takeaway: With a name inspired by recording devices used in airplanes, American, Canadian and European hospitals have implemented Surgical Safety Technologies’ OR Black Box “in hopes of reducing medical errors and improving patient safety and operating room efficiency.”

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Imaging Technology

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Patients diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer—the most common presentation of the disease—often are eligible for breast-conserving therapy, an alternative to breast removal that combines surgery to remove the tumor with radiation therapy to reduce the likelihood it will return. “We

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REBEL EM

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Article: Sharda SC et al. The articles were analyzed and extracted for data points relevant to post-intubation hypotension and first-pass intubation success rates. Exclusion: Articles were excluded if they included combinations of two or more induction agents. Indian J Crit Care Med 2022.

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European Radiology

APRIL 9, 2023

Dear Editor, We read with great interest the recent article by Arsoydan et al: “Did medical doctors who order abdominal CT scans during on-call hours truly become worse at clinical reasoning? Yes, they did” [1]. This in turn leads to a lower scan yield and therefore a lower concordance.

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