REBEL EM

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Clinical Scenario: A 45-year-old woman presents with cough and shortness of breath. PMID: 28141683 The post Clinical Conundrum: Should We Always Treat Fever in Patients with Sepsis? Bottom Line Up Top: There doesnt appear to be a morbidity or mortality benefit to treating fever in sepsis and fever may have a protective effect.

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Radiology Business

APRIL 30, 2024

"The challenging reimbursement environment and escalating operating costs create a lack of profitability that make the care business unsustainable," the retailer said Tuesday.

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Aidoc

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In working with more than 1,200 health systems on clinical AI integration, here are a few consistent themes from AI-ready health systems: Fostering Continuous Learning : Ongoing training and professional development related to AI technologies for relevant staff is highly encouraged. In short: a clear AI governance structure is essential.

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Health Imaging

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The LA area duo laundered their profits “by buying millions of dollars’ worth of gold bars and coins,” the DOJ says.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

OCTOBER 1, 2024

UCLA researchers have developed a deep-learning framework that teaches itself quickly to automatically analyze and diagnose MRIs and other 3D medical images—with accuracy matching that of medical specialists in a fraction of the time. An article describing the work and the system's capabilities is published in Nature Biomedical Engineering.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Experts believe the tool has “excellent” potential to help guide decisions during labor and delivery in the future.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Most Influential Radiology Researcher Erik Middlebrooks, MD, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL Erik Middlebrooks, MD. One of this year's nominations for Most Influential Radiology Researcher is Erik Middlebrooks, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JANUARY 29, 2024

A multivariable model that includes mpMRI and blood testing assessment of prostate extracellular vesicles had a significantly higher AUC and sensitivity rate than mpMRI alone for predicting clinically significant prostate cancer, according to research presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO-GU). (..)

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REBEL EM

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Effect of Noninvasive Airway management of Comatose Patients with Acute Poisoning: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Effect of Noninvasive Airway management of Comatose Patients with Acute Poisoning: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Paper: Freund Y et al. References: Freund Y et al.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

With strong demand for medical imaging in many differing clinical contexts, hospitals are managing growing routine imaging demands while balancing teaching practices, ambulatory services, primary care, and subspecialty services. billion healthcare facility. Another, a new hospital complex is underway at University of Utah Health.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

He is the father of contemporary CT imaging -- and thus of clinical radiology as we know it today," Christiane Kuhl, MD, PhD, told AuntMinnie.com on November 4. Willi was the one to invent helical CT, the type of CT which is used today for all whole-body applications of clinical radiology," she said. Willi Kalender, PhD.

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Radiology Business

MARCH 15, 2024

The nation’s largest healthcare corporation recently made an offer for the Corvallis Clinic, which has 11 locations across Oregon's Willamette Valley.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 9, 2024

In the context of medical devices, an in silico clinical trial (ISCT) is a computational study in which a medical intervention is evaluated using a cohort of computational models of patients, wrote lead author Pras Pathmanathan, PhD, a senior FDA research scientist, and colleagues.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Middlebrooks, MD, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL Erik H. Middlebrooks, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. Given the extensive array of sequences and techniques employed in clinical imaging, we must address the inherent challenges associated with each," he noted. Middlebrooks, MD. from Ukraine.

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Diagnostic Imaging

AUGUST 13, 2024

Utilizing low-dose computed tomography (CT) scans for a cohort of over 10,000 non-smokers, researchers found that over 11 percent of study participants had clinically relevant lung nodules.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Siemens Healthineers has adopted NVidia's MONAI Deploy, a module within its open-source research and development platform MONAI that aims to integrate AI workflows for medical imaging into clinical use. The module is a tool for developing, packaging, testing, deploying, and running medical AI applications in clinical production.

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Diagnostic Imaging

JANUARY 26, 2024

Patients with localized high-risk prostate cancer and midline radiotracer activity in the prostate had over double the incidence of urethral hyperintensity on T2W MRI, according to research presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO-GU).

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 21, 2024

The clinical utilization of SSTR-directed PET/CT imaging and [peptide receptor radionuclide therapy, or PRRT] among patients with meningioma has shown a consistent rise in Europe and the U.S.,” Yet randomized clinical trials on the efficacy of PRRT in meningiomas are missing and PRRT is not yet approved for meningioma patients by U.S.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Spiritual beliefs and a distrust of clinical research may partly explain why Black patients choose not to participate in cancer trials, according to research presented September 30 at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting. They were asked to complete the surveys while waiting to see their cancer physicians. “Our

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 9, 2024

Rightfully, patient advocates really want this,” statement first author Scott Young, MD from the Mayo Clinic told AuntMinnie.com. Scott Young, MD, of the Mayo Clinic provides an overview of the expert consensus statement. Wendaline VanBuren, MD, from the Mayo Clinic previews the next steps in the process.

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Health Imaging

OCTOBER 3, 2024

After reviewing years' worth of data from their clinic, one institution discovered that on numerous occasions issues with implant data integrity put patients at risk.

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Diagnostic Imaging

AUGUST 16, 2024

Acute clinical events with stable MRI (ACES) in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are reportedly associated with significantly higher rates of confirmed disability accrual, relapse-associated worsening, and transition to secondary progressive MS.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 2, 2024

The study included clinical data from 399 patients and evaluated the performance of the models against traditional diagnostic metrics. The team also identified the following key clinical predictors: age, echo malignancy, and echo position. F1 score (malignant) 46.51 93.88% 93.88% AUC 0.72 The full study can be found here.

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REBEL EM

JULY 1, 2024

PMID: 34462252 Clinical Question: Does AVAPS NIPPV in patients with hypercapnic respiratory failure improve PaCO2 and pH values better than traditional BiPAP NIPPV? Comparison of BPAP S/T and Average Volume-Assured Pressure Support Modes for Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure in the Emergency Department: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Braun and co-authors in a randomized clinical trial studied whether a single 400-mg oral dose of CBD that has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) improves clinical anxiety among women undergoing diagnostic CT and/or PET scans for advanced breast cancer. However, data are few and far between on CBDs potential.

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Medical Xpress: Radiology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A new hand-held scanner developed by UCL researchers can generate highly detailed 3D photoacoustic images in just seconds, paving the way for their use in a clinical setting for the first time and offering the potential for earlier disease diagnosis.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 30, 2024

The researchers also assessed the impact of discordant category assignments on clinical management. Across human readers and large language models, the team observed differences in the frequency of BI-RADS category upgrades or downgrades that would result in changed clinical management or negatively impacted clinical management.

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AuntMinnie

JULY 8, 2024

It's like any clinical tool as well. The researchers also highlighted that before AI models are deployed in clinical settings, they must show their effectiveness across a wide range of scenarios and be validated by prospective studies. The platform works as an interface between existing clinical PACS and AI models.

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Radiology Business

AUGUST 7, 2024

“Reducing the cost and increasing the accessibility of MRI for [clinically significant prostate cancer] is critical for the viability of MRI screening programs," experts wrote.

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Diagnostic Imaging

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In patients with PI-RADS 3 lesion assessments, the combination of AI and prostate-specific antigen density (PSAD) level achieved a 78 percent sensitivity and 93 percent negative predictive value for clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa), according to research presented at the Radiological Society of North American (RSNA) conference.

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Health Imaging

AUGUST 28, 2024

This is a photo gallery of artificial intelligence products cleared for clinical use in medical imaging by the U.S. Radiology by far is the leader of all clinical AI FDA approvals. Food and Drug Administration.

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Radiology Business

APRIL 20, 2024

Clinical researchers are about to find out. Is portable MRI suitable for finding abnormalities in the brains of patients receiving new amyloid-targeting therapy for Alzheimer’s disease?

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Ben White

JUNE 26, 2023

And, You Should be Correlating Clinically. Doing Approaching the Radiology R1 Year and its short companion post: How to be a First-Year Radiology Resident. Want something a little more controversial? Stop Free Dictating. You can round that out with some more general thoughts on studying during residency.

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AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

This is a testament to how research has shifted from standalone studies on the accuracy of algorithms to how they may actually impact clinical workflows – and thereby perhaps move a step closer to broader clinical implementation. Chest x-ray AI evaluated in clinical routine at a Norwegian hospital Monday, December 2 | 1:30 p.m.-1:40

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 18, 2024

Currently, atherosclerosis is diagnosed at a relatively late stage in its disease course, typically through clinical assessments and structural imaging modalities such as CT,” Patil noted. The researchers retrospectively identified 115 patients who underwent F-18 NaF-PET/CT in a previous clinical trial.

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REBEL EM

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Limitations: Bench Model Simulation : The study was conducted in a laboratory setting rather than a clinical environment, which may only partially replicate the complexities and variability of real-life clinical situations. Moreover, statistical significance may not directly translate to clinical significance.

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Diagnostic Imaging

AUGUST 7, 2024

External validation testing revealed a deep learning combination of breast MRI, ultrasound and clinical factors had a 10 percent higher AUC for predicting axillary lymph node metastasis than sole use of MRI- or ultrasound-based deep learning models in patients with breast cancer.

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