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Pre-Hospital Antibiotics in Sepsis?

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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)? Clinical Take Home Point: Cutting corners to speed up time is not always a good thing in medicine.

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ASTRO and ESTRO Issue Clinical Guideline on Local Therapy for Oligometastatic Lung Cancer

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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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Microflow imaging useful in diagnosing breast lesions

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Microflow imaging can differentiate between benign and malignant breast lesions, suggest findings published October 28 in Clinical Radiology. Microflow imaging and high-definition microflow imaging can detect more blood flow in breast lesions than color Doppler flow imaging…,” Luo and co-authors wrote. Grade 1 25.4% 8% Grade 2 23.9%

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PET Scans Reveal ‘smoldering’ Inflammation in patients with Multiple sclerosis

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The findings were published in Clinical Nuclear Medicine. Microglia are immune cells in the brain that are thought to have a role in MS disease progression but cannot be seen by a routine MRI. Our therapies are excellent in that we’ve definitely improved MS patients’ lives,” Bakshi said.

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Can PET help diagnose neurosarcoidosis?

AuntMinnie

To date, F-18 FDG PET findings are currently not taken into account when making a diagnosis for possible, probable, or definite neurosarcoidosis,” noted lead author Jessy Chen, MD, of Charité - Berlin University Medicine, and colleagues. In our outpatient clinic follow-up (2 to 2.5

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The COVID-OUT Trial: Does Metformin Reduce the Risk of Long COVID?

REBEL EM

Our understanding of the disease and effective treatments to reduce mortality have progressed rapidly during this time. Lancet Infect Dis 2023 PMID: 37302406 Clinical Question: Does outpatient treatment with ivermectin, fluvoxamine or metformin soon after SARS-CoV-2 infection reduce the risk of developing long-COVID in overweight patients?

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GE HealthCare Closes MIM Software Acquisition

Imaging Technology

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