A 30-year-old woman arrives in the emergency room with “abdominal cramping and vaginal bleeding. A physical examination ...
Mary Washington Hospital (MWH), part of MediCorp Health Systems in Fredericksburg, VA, has been the area’s premier ...
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.
Radiology departments have many different needs and face a wide variety of challenges that can impact their departments ...
All hospitals today face challenges, but none comes close to matching the recent experiences of Louisiana hospitals ...
For most of us, handheld devices put the “fun” in functional. In the medical world, these tools do much more — they help save lives.
It is no surprise that during the past several years, the number of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed ...
Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
When mechanical ventilation is initiated for surgical and acute-unit patients, protecting the fragile lungs while ...
Digital imaging is now ubiquitous in medicine. Contemporary imaging modalities are generating an ever-increasing amount ...
Editor’s Note: This is the result of a “virtual” roundtable discussion on image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) with Drs ...
Bayer Radiology’s Barbara Ruhland and Thom Kinst discuss how radiology departments can address the many different ...
Chest pain is a common complaint among ED patients, yet failure to diagnose acute myocardial infarction in the trauma ...
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 ...
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
Anyone who remembers – or for that matter, still uses – single-slice CT scanners can appreciate the dramatic ...
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 ...
One of the most prominent figures in nuclear medicine in the last half-century is Dr. Henry Wagner of Johns Hopkins ...
Imagine for a moment, if something along these lines actually had happened. Back in the early 1990s when the debut of ...
Acquiring used equipment carries with it certain stereotypes that span the spectrum of good to bad. Facilities that ...
The Eclipse Powered System is “Power Made Easy” due to its automation and simplicity. The system has been engineered ...
The Harmony V Keyless Entry (push-button) cart features a programmable automatic re-lock and a manual key override. The ...
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