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Key interventions cut delays for MRIs performed on sedated patients

AuntMinnie

A team led by Aric Lee, MBBS, of National University Hospital in Singapore found that relatively straightforward initiatives such as workflow standardization and preadmission patient counseling cut delays for these types of exams by more than 30%. The hospital performs 32,000 MRI exams per year.)

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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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The challenges of dysrhythmic radiologists

AuntMinnie

A number of years ago, in a small British hospital that must remain nameless, there were two notorious radiologists. I heard of a hospital that hired a radiologist to come in one weekend to help with their reporting backlog of plain radiographs. Paul McCoubrie, MBBS, is a consultant radiologist at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, U.K.

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Moore’s Law for radiologists

AuntMinnie

But the pressure kept building, and the number of CT and MRI scans grew by 20% annually in my hospital. Paul McCoubrie, MBBS, is a consultant radiologist at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, U.K. His new book -- More Rules of Radiology -- is available via its publisher Springer and also local bookstores ( ISBN-13 978-3031640933).

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Meet the Minnies 2024 finalists

AuntMinnie

He has written on abdominal imaging in more than 500 scientific publications, book chapters, and textbooks. Louis School of Medicine and completed his residency and a neuroradiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dempsey began working in radiography at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pennsylvania.

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REBEL Cast Book Club Episode 4 — The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

REBEL EM

In this podcast episode, three Emergency Medicine Physicians, Marco Propersi, Dan Wolf and Will Smith, discuss flow in relation to working in the ED, how it intersects with medical training, on shift performance and even in daily life outside the hospital. How can you set yourself up to achieve flow?

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Tributes pour in for CT pioneer Willi Kalender

AuntMinnie

I'll never forget our Bertrand Russell books discussion while walking to lunch with you in Erlangen. Willi Kalender, PhD. Courtesy of National Academy of Engineering. When I was hesitant to drink beer during lunchtime, I remember you saying: 'It is the amount of dose that matters, not the drink itself!'

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