Emergency Radiology: Page 9

Radiology plays key role in pediatric thoracic emergencies

By Cynthia E. Keen

Children who are having difficulty breathing or swallowing are among the most common patients admitted to hospital emergency departments. Radiologists can help clinicians make a rapid diagnosis, start the appropriate treatment, and avoid complications in these nontraumatic thoracic emergency cases.

July 20, 2011

iPad may be able to support emergency brain CT interpretation

By Erik L. Ridley

Apple's iPad has the hardware power to support preliminary interpretation of emergency brain CT studies, but an inability of current software to access patient information and previous imaging can lead to some missed findings, according to researchers in Ireland.

March 20, 2011

Carestream completes French install

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Carestream Health has installed its Carestream DRX-Evolution digital radiography suite at Brest Regional University Hospital in western Brittany, France.

November 11, 2010

New biomarkers identify severe abdominal injury after multiple trauma

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 20 - Two newly recognized biomarkers, intestinal fatty acid-binding protein (I-FABP) and liver fatty acid-binding protein (L-FABP), can signal severe abdominal injury in trauma patients, according to a July report in Academic Emergency Medicine.

August 19, 2010

FAST recommended first for kids with blunt abdominal trauma

By Cynthia E. Keen

In many emergency departments, CT exams are the imaging study most frequently ordered for patients admitted with blunt abdominal trauma. However, pediatric surgeons and radiologists from Germany recommend that ultrasound combined with clinical assessment is just as effective, thus avoiding radiation exposure.

May 6, 2010

Portable DR gets rockers back into the mosh pit

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

The use of a portable digital radiography (DR) system at a major U.K. music festival helped emergency personnel triage patients and send back to the event many music fans who otherwise might have been referred to a local hospital.

August 5, 2009

New guidelines for resuscitating children recommended

By Cynthia E. Keen

Two new clinical studies used CT to determine that European guidelines for setting the depth of chest compression when resuscitating children may be more accurate than those followed in the U.S. The U.S. guidelines actually could lead to injury in children, researchers say.

July 23, 2009

U.K. hospital deploys homegrown IT system

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has implemented an internally developed IT system at its Children's Acute Transport Service (CATS) for referring hospitals to share medical data on emergency patients more quickly and securely.

June 1, 2009

Whole-body CT improves survival in patients with multiple major injuries

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Mar 24 - Surgeons and radiologists in Germany report that early use of whole-body CT in patients with major blunt trauma significantly increases their odds of survival.

March 23, 2009

Ziehm debuts new C-arm at ECR

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

C-arm developer Ziehm Imaging introduced its Ziehm Solo C-arm at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna.

March 17, 2009

Adding delayed CT aids some trauma diagnoses

By Eric Barnes

In the emergency setting, would the routine acquisition of a delayed scan five minutes after contrast lead to better diagnoses of trauma patients? It pays sometimes but not always to acquire the extra scan, say researchers from Italy, who reviewed images from hundreds of cases of organ injuries.

January 20, 2009

European cardiologists eye hand-carried ultrasound

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

European cardiologists are thinking mobile, with 73% of them expecting to employ hand-carried ultrasound technology within the next five years.

May 19, 2008

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