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Meet the Minnies 2024 finalists

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Who made it to the final round in the 2024 edition of the Minnies, AuntMinnie.com 's event recognizing excellence in radiology? See below to find out who our expert panelists selected as the final candidates in this year's event. Dempsey began working in radiography at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pennsylvania.

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The SQuID Protocol: SQ Insulin in DKA?

REBEL EM

Mild to moderate DKA represents a subgroup of patients that often require admission to the ICU due to hospital policies not allowing insulin infusions outside of this clinical setting. However, it is unclear if all degrees (mild, moderate, severe) of DKA require the same intensive treatment. tests/hr (0.8 Traditional: 1.0 tests/hr (0.8

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AuntMinnie 2014: Health information exchange lowers repeat emergency imaging

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They retrospectively accessed discharge data from the State Emergency Department Databases for California and Florida for 2007-2010, and then merged the data with information on hospital HIE participation from market research firm HIMSS Analytics. If all hospital-based EDs in California and Florida fully participated in HIE, more than $2.9

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Pediatric UTIs: Short-Course vs. Standard-Course Antibiotics — Is It Time for a Change?

REBEL EM

Enrollment: Recruited patients from primary care offices, emergency departments, and inpatient wards at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Hospitalization for bacteremia. Proportion of children with reported adverse events between days 6 and 38–44.

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Philips Helps Deliver Diagnostic Confidence in Echocardiography with Ultrasound Compact 5500CV at ASE 2023

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milla1cf Fri, 06/23/2023 - 21:36 June 23, 2023 — Building on its established leadership in cardiovascular ultrasound, Philips will showcase its Ultrasound Compact 5500CV at the 2023 American Society of Echocardiography Event ( ASE 2023 , June 23-26, National Harbor, MD).

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Short Course Antibiotics for Peds CAP: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

REBEL EM

requiring inpatient treatment) Intervention: Shorter antibiotic treatment duration (3–5 days). Need for Hospitalization 2 of 4 studies with 478 children included No hospitalizations occurred in either of the studies (RD, 0.00 [95% CI.01 Adverse Events Related to Antibiotic Treatment 2 of 4 studies 1194 children included. (RD,

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AuntMinnie 2007: Gadolinium: A 'necessary factor' in the development of NSF?

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Louis hospital. Authors of another paper, this time from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, found that in their patient population, those who developed NSF had a significantly decreased estimated glomerular filtration rate, more proinflammatory events, and underwent more contrast-enhanced MR examinations ( Radiology , January 31, 2007).

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