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Konica Minolta Announces Significant Expansion of Dynamic Digital Radiography Across Multiple Facility Types and Clinical Care Areas

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The clinical utility of DDR is being realized across different provider types, from hospitals to clinics and private practices, encompassing a multitude of applications, including ER/inpatient triage, outpatient imaging, specialty musculoskeletal (MSK) imaging, and pre-surgical evaluations. Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology (N.Y.),

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Amyloid PET scans improve outcomes in AD patients

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Alzheimer’s disease patients with cognitive impairment or dementia who were referred for amyloid PET scans had fewer hospitalizations compared with a matched control group, according to a study published October 9 in JAMA Neurology. The percentage of patients impacted was small – just 4.5%

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The Crucial Link Between Emergency Department Flow and Overcrowding

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However, when the ED becomes overcrowded, the ability to deliver timely and effective care is compromised, leading to significant clinical repercussions for health systems. A good portion of inpatient hospital admissions are funneled through the ED. A study by Cournane et al.

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AI-Based Analysis of Dynamic Digital Radiography Data Gives Researchers Greater Insight into Lung Function and Pulmonary Disorders

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Braun , MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine), Icahn Mount Sinai , and a co-author of the study. DDR is a much easier method to capture lung function and it provides more clinical data than PFT alone. Chest radiography is typically acquired in the evaluation of pulmonary disorders.

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Rosh Review MyEMCert Question

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Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. Antithrombotic therapy for VTE disease: second update of the CHEST guideline and expert panel report. Antithrombotic therapy for VTE disease: second update of the CHEST guideline and expert panel report. Elsevier; 2023:(Ch) 74. Roy PM, Penaloza A, Hugli O, et al.

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REBEL Core Cast 107.0 – Vertebral Osteomyelitis

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Take Home Points Clinical presentation is very nonspecific; evaluate all patients presenting with back pain for infectious risk factors. MRI is key to diagnosis, obtain this imaging in all patients who raise clinical suspicion Patients with hemodynamic instability and neurologic compromise warrant empiric antibiotics.

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What can global radiology learn from Singapore?

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The clinical implementation of point-of-care ultrasound is making steady progress. Workforce issues Singapore is a young and very small country with challenges of a rapidly aging population, rising chronic disease load (e.g., Courtesy of Dr. Joyce Yap, community geriatrician and lead for POCUS in Community (PIC).