Emergency Radiology: Page 57

Homegrown tool improves radiologists' workflow

By Jonathan S. Batchelor

Radiologists and sofware developers from Cincinnati have designed an application that automates and prioritizes the interpretation of patient cases based on clinical urgency, resulting in faster report turnaround times, higher throughput, and the ability to dynamically balance workloads. They presented results from their in-house developed tool, RadStream, at the 2005 RSNA conference in Chicago.

December 15, 2005

SonoSite's MicroMaxx to be used in NASA trial

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Compact-ultrasound developer SonoSite reported that NASA will use its MicroMaxx ultrasound system to demonstrate the emergency treatment of a musculoskeletal injury during simulated space flight conditions with the aid of telemonitoring.

November 28, 2005

MRI differentiates AMI from myocarditis

By Eric Barnes

Myocarditis or acute myocardial infarction? That is the question for some clinicians when emergency coronary angiography is normal. In fact it can be hard to distinguish the two very different heart problems. But MRI can provide a definitive answer, according to researchers in Paris, who employed early- and late-perfusion MRI sequences in their noninvasive protocol, and found significant differences between the two conditions.

November 20, 2005

Siemens launches new dual-source CT technology

By Brian Casey

Siemens Medical Solutions today launched a new technology that takes a different tack in the never-ending race to produce faster CT scanners. Rather than develop a system with 128 or 256 detector rows, the company is launching what it calls dual-source CT -- a new design that uses two sets of x-ray tubes and detector arrays in a single CT gantry.

November 16, 2005

NSBRI devises rapid ultrasound training program

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Researchers with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) have developed a computer-based training method that teaches nonphysicians to operate ultrasound as if they were technicians.

November 3, 2005

Motion and contrast problems spoil CTPA most often

By Eric Barnes

Multidetector-row CT scanners have increased the accuracy of CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) to 90% and higher for detecting pulmonary embolism, triaging patients in the emergency room, and ultimately sparing lives. In the small percentage of indeterminate CTPA findings, however, motion artifacts and contrast delivery are usually to blame, according to researchers in France.

October 18, 2005

Ultrasound eases management of nontrauma ED patients

By Erik L. Ridley

Ultrasound can have a high impact on the diagnosis of nontrauma patients in the emergency department (ED), according to research published in the October issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

October 13, 2005

Accident & Emergency Radiology: A Survival Guide

The major advantages of this textbook are its portability (easily fits into a doctor’s coat pocket); readability (cover-to-cover in under a day); inexpensive price; and the succinctly presented and applicable information it offers.

October 2, 2005

Cautions against CT overuse fall on deaf ears at West Virginia ER

By Edward Susman

SAN DIEGO - The ordering of unnecessary CT scans continues to be a problem in at least one hospital in the southern U.S., despite numerous warnings about the modality's overuse, according to a presentation Monday at the American Neurological Association meeting.

September 26, 2005

When x-ray finds cervical spine injuries, CT picks up more

By Eric Barnes

More than a third of patients with diagnosed cervical spine injuries (CSI) had secondary injuries that were missed on x-ray, researchers in California have reported. The study, published online in the September 5 Annals of Emergency Medicine, underscores the need for CT and perhaps other imaging modalities when evaluating trauma patients.

September 13, 2005

Double Black releases OR cart

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Monitor distributor Double Black Imaging has launched a wireless diagnostic image display cart designed for use in operating rooms.

September 8, 2005

CodeRyte books CA, TX clients

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Internet-based medical coding technology and services provider CodeRyte has signed three agreements to install its software at billing companies in California and a radiology practice in Texas.

September 8, 2005

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