The Crosstown 1200 Motorized Stretchair is a self-contained transportation system capable of functioning in both chair ...
GE Healthcare has received clearance from the FDA for the new wide bore computed tomography (CT) system. This new ...
CardiArc recently released a cardiac SPECT system with reportedly twice the resolution of existing devices designed to ...
Radiology departments have many different needs and face a wide variety of challenges that can impact their departments ...
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 ...
One of the most prominent figures in nuclear medicine in the last half-century is Dr. Henry Wagner of Johns Hopkins ...
Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
Mary Washington Hospital (MWH), part of MediCorp Health Systems in Fredericksburg, VA, has been the area’s premier ...
Acquiring used equipment carries with it certain stereotypes that span the spectrum of good to bad. Facilities that ...
All hospitals today face challenges, but none comes close to matching the recent experiences of Louisiana hospitals ...
Bayer Radiology’s Barbara Ruhland and Thom Kinst discuss how radiology departments can address the many different ...
A 30-year-old woman arrives in the emergency room with “abdominal cramping and vaginal bleeding. A physical examination ...
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 ...
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
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.
Editor’s Note: This is the result of a “virtual” roundtable discussion on image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) with Drs ...
For most of us, handheld devices put the “fun” in functional. In the medical world, these tools do much more — they help save lives.
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 ...
Digital imaging is now ubiquitous in medicine. Contemporary imaging modalities are generating an ever-increasing amount ...
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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