The Crosstown 1200 Motorized Stretchair is a self-contained transportation system capable of functioning in both chair ...
The 1U Dual Cell-Based Server is reportedly the latest Cell Broadband Engine (BE) processor-based product and first 1U ...
GE Healthcare has introduced the Lunar Prodigy Primo, a new performance bone mineral density (BMD) system designed to ...
Contrast Diversification in CT Imaging Across imaging departments, supply variability and growing demand are creating ...
The 30-inch wide Action G2 Bariatric Pad is tested clinically effective to 500 pounds. The Shear Smart surface of Akton ...
The Compu•cutter III is less than half the size of its predecessor without sacrificing quality and accuracy. It is ...
Chest pain is a common complaint among ED patients, yet failure to diagnose acute myocardial infarction in the trauma ...
Today’s radiology teams are faced with a wide range of growing complexities such as patient and procedure variabilities ...
Mary Washington Hospital (MWH), part of MediCorp Health Systems in Fredericksburg, VA, has been the area’s premier ...
Anyone who remembers – or for that matter, still uses – single-slice CT scanners can appreciate the dramatic ...
All hospitals today face challenges, but none comes close to matching the recent experiences of Louisiana hospitals ...
AT A GLANCE Organization: Expert Radiology Management Services, LLC Specialty: Subspecialty teleradiology — neuro and ...
One of the most prominent figures in nuclear medicine in the last half-century is Dr. Henry Wagner of Johns Hopkins ...
It is no surprise that during the past several years, the number of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed ...
When mechanical ventilation is initiated for surgical and acute-unit patients, protecting the fragile lungs while ...
Radiology departments have many different needs and face a wide variety of challenges that can impact their departments ...
Acquiring used equipment carries with it certain stereotypes that span the spectrum of good to bad. Facilities that ...
Editor’s Note: This is the result of a “virtual” roundtable discussion on image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) with Drs ...
A 30-year-old woman arrives in the emergency room with “abdominal cramping and vaginal bleeding. A physical examination ...
Few medical devices are credited with preventing death and are used so rarely as automated external defibrillators (AEDs ...
ACT: What are some of the scenarios — decisions or investments — in which a hospital might want to consider doing a ...
Not too long ago, the capability of precisely directing and guiding a potent beam of radiation to eradicate a cancerous tumor without harming the healthy tissue around it was a pipe dream. Fodder for the imagination and science fiction.
Talk to the purveyors and supporters of digital radiography (DR) and you’ll hear that it’s the wave of the future and ultimately where the technology is headed – arguably replacing its earlier generation sibling, computed radiography (CR). However, raise that prospect with the CR crowd and you’ll likely hear something dramatically different.
About 10 years ago a close friend received some very bad news, but, oddly, she was happy about it. My friend was ...
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