Emergency Radiology: Page 61

Study documents rising use of CT for suspected PE

A trend toward increasing CT use for suspected pulmonary embolism, combined with a steady drop in positive findings, raises important questions about the appropriate use of CT pulmonary angiography, according to researchers from Cleveland, who wonder if the risk of treatment is justified by the outcomes.

October 10, 2004

Olympics RADCast 2004

An ambulance stands at the ready outside the emergency room of the Polyclinic in the Athens Olympic Village, where most of the athletes reside during the Games.

August 16, 2004

Mobile computing aids ED/radiology communications

By Erik L. Ridley

Mobile computing devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) can be used to improve communications between emergency (ED) and radiology departments, according to researchers from the University of California, San Francisco.

August 5, 2004

AuntMinnie.com PACS Radiology Insider

By Erik L. Ridley

The communication of urgent exam results from radiology to the emergency department (ED) can be improved with the use of mobile computing devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), according to the experience of the University of California, San Francisco.

August 1, 2004

California rads nail diagnosis with CT and x-ray

If you've been in radiology long enough, chances are you've seen your share of strange cases. But radiologists at a Southern California hospital got a doozy in April, when a construction worker presented with obvious head injuries but no visible sign of their cause.

July 13, 2004

Nailed in the head: X-ray, CT show patient's good luck

By Tracie L. Thompson

When the patient arrived at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, CA, it was clear he'd need more than an x-ray. Plain films were able to answer an immediate question: How many nails had been driven into his head? His physicians then turned to 3D CT images to gauge the extent of the injury and guide treatment.

July 12, 2004

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MRS predicts severity of brain injury in abused infants

By Tracie L. Thompson

After a shaken baby recovers from the immediate trauma that prompted medical intervention, it may be difficult to distinguish those who suffered more significant and long-lasting brain injury. Presenters at the American Society of Neuroradiology meeting in Seattle said an MR spectroscopy (MRS) exam in the acute phase may actually distinguish those children quite accurately.

June 9, 2004

Experience beats speed in emergency FAST training

By Erik L. Ridley

Emergency medicine residents need to go beyond 10 FAST (focused abdominal sonography for trauma) examinations in order to be adequately trained, according to research published in the latest issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

June 1, 2004

Stress MRI tops echo for coronary disease detection

By Jerry Ingram

A comprehensive stress MRI exam is more sensitive than stress echocardiography in detecting coronary artery disease in patients who arrive at an emergency room with chest pain, according to a newly reported pilot study.

May 25, 2004

CT shows lab tests fail to predict pediatric trauma

SAN FRANCISCO - Emergency physicians are often reluctant to scan pediatric trauma patients with CT, in hopes of avoiding excessive radiation exposure. However, two new studies confirm that the battery of lab tests commonly ordered when young patients present to the emergency room fails miserably at predicting injury.

May 5, 2004

Use of pediatric head CT growing steadily in emergency departments

SAN FRANCISCO - The use of pediatric head CT for trauma evaluation increased steadily during the 1990s. By the end of the decade, CT was being used in nearly half of all head trauma evaluations, according to a new study based on the National Hospital Ambulatory Care Survey, presented Saturday at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies.

May 3, 2004

Emergency ultrasound training improves, but few ER docs meet AIUM guidelines

By Erik L. Ridley

To determine the current state of emergency physician-performed ultrasound, researchers from Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, CT, and Resurrection Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency in Chicago conducted a 10-question Web-based survey to ultrasound/residency directors at 122 emergency medicine residency programs in the U.S.

March 28, 2004

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