Mary Washington Hospital (MWH), part of MediCorp Health Systems in Fredericksburg, VA, has been the area’s premier ...
A 30-year-old woman arrives in the emergency room with “abdominal cramping and vaginal bleeding. A physical examination ...
All hospitals today face challenges, but none comes close to matching the recent experiences of Louisiana hospitals ...
Radiology departments have many different needs and face a wide variety of challenges that can impact their departments ...
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.
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 ...
Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
For most of us, handheld devices put the “fun” in functional. In the medical world, these tools do much more — they help save lives.
Editor’s Note: This is the result of a “virtual” roundtable discussion on image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) with Drs ...
Digital imaging is now ubiquitous in medicine. Contemporary imaging modalities are generating an ever-increasing amount ...
Bayer Radiology’s Barbara Ruhland and Thom Kinst discuss how radiology departments can address the many different ...
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 ...
Chest pain is a common complaint among ED patients, yet failure to diagnose acute myocardial infarction in the trauma ...
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
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 ...
Anyone who remembers – or for that matter, still uses – single-slice CT scanners can appreciate the dramatic ...
The Harmony V Keyless Entry (push-button) cart features a programmable automatic re-lock and a manual key override. The ...
Along with the already established S2 20-inch surgery light, the new S1 surgery “satellite” and the new P1 video camera ...
The Eclipse Powered System is “Power Made Easy” due to its automation and simplicity. The system has been engineered ...
Odyssey treatment planning from Permedics Inc. is an open planning system, Windows XP-based with fast optimization and ...
Horizon Rad Station eJacket from McKesson enables quick access to exam results using a Web browser. It provides ...
June 22, 2006 