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Could mobile computers go to radiologists' heads?
By Erik L. Ridley
Monday, November 26 | 5:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. | LL-INS-MO2C | Lakeside Learning CenterIn this poster presentation, researchers will describe the potential for head-mounted computers to enhance communication between radiologists and emergency medicine physicians.
November 4, 2012
Mindray funds point-of-care US grant
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical equipment manufacturer Mindray Medical International used this week's American College of Emergency Physicians meeting in Denver to announce that it is underwriting a grant for point-of-care ultrasound to the Emergency Medical Foundation of Dallas.
October 8, 2012
Pitt. radiologists take back the night -- and reap the rewards
By Kate Madden Yee
In 2007, University of Pittsburgh radiologists decided that using residents for overnight coverage of emergency department CT scans was a medical anachronism. Instead, they began offering after-hours subspecialty coverage themselves, and reported on their experience in the September issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
August 28, 2012
Canadian head CT guidelines beat New Orleans criteria
By Eric Barnes
In a head-to-head contest between guidelines for assessing mild head injury, researchers in Tunisia found that the Canadian CT Head Rule was more accurate than the New Orleans Criteria in predicting the need for neurosurgical intervention, according to a report published online in Annals of Emergency Medicine.
August 21, 2012
Medweb participates in first-responder exercise
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PACS vendor Medweb will test mobile health technologies in the 2012 Research and Experimentation for Local and International Emergency and First Responders exercise, cohosted by the U.S. National Defense University and the Naval Postgraduate School.
August 13, 2012
Imaging growth contributes to increase in ED visits
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The number of patient emergency department (ED) visits increased 60% faster than population growth between 2001 and 2008, and advanced imaging was a contributing factor, according to research published online in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
June 21, 2012
WHO guidelines to diagnose childhood pneumonia criticized
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The World Health Organization (WHO) criteria for diagnosing radiographic pneumonia were ineffective for screening young children admitted to the emergency department at Children's Hospital Boston, according to a study in the June issue of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.
June 12, 2012
Emergency departments reserve CT for complex cases
By Eric Barnes
The vast majority of CT exams of the abdomen and pelvis in U.S. emergency departments are ordered for clinically complex cases, suggesting that fears of CT overuse in simple clinical cases are largely unsupported, according to a study in the June Journal of the American College of Radiology.
May 31, 2012
Emergency MR or CT cases? Not a problem for the iPad
By Erik L. Ridley
Radiologists can use the iPad to read a broad spectrum of emergency MR and CT cases commonly encountered during after-hours, on-call coverage, according to a Singapore study published online in the Journal of Digital Imaging.
May 24, 2012
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Ziltron launches radiology Facebook game
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ziltron said it has launched a Facebook game called X-Ray Ninja in an effort to raise professional interest in the field of radiology.
May 15, 2012
Decision-support software reduces emergency CT orders by 10%
By Cynthia E. Keen
A decision-support software tool that requires emergency department physicians to explain why they are ordering CT scans reduced the number of abdominal studies being performed at a Philadelphia hospital by 10%, according to a study presented on Friday at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine meeting in Chicago.
May 10, 2012
In an emergency, iPad can handle pulmonary embolism
By Erik L. Ridley
When pulmonary embolism (PE) is suspected in an emergency room patient, there's no time to waste. Offering equivalent diagnostic performance to a PACS workstation, Apple's iPad just might be the tool to speed diagnosis, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
May 7, 2012
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