July 10, 2007 — Nearly a quarter of hospital or “healthline” operators mistakenly routed a caller describing classic stroke symptoms to primary care doctors rather than 9-1-1, according to a research project published in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Brett Jarrell, M.D., lead author of the study and emergency department (ED) staff physician at Cabell Huntington Hospital in Huntington, W.Va., said he noticed the problem when he worked at a stroke center.

July 10, 2007 - AORN encourages participation in a brief benchmarking survey designed by researchers at Duke University Medical Center to measure the extent of recommended control measure use during procedures that produce surgical smoke.

The survey results are expected to be published in the AORN Journal later this year.

Many perioperative nurses are exposed to surgical smoke on a daily basis, yet there is still much to be learned about long-term hazards and the ways of mitigating the risks of exposure to surgical smoke.


Visualizing motion is changing the way oncologists and medical physicists treat cancer patients. Thanks to multislice CT and advanced post processing, clinicians can see tumor movement as a result of respiration clearly and precisely with new 4-D imaging techniques.
Changing treatment one patient at a time

CT technology is moving into new imaging arenas such as cardiology, neurology and trauma, giving clinicians the ability to scan virtually anything in less than a minute with remarkable detail.

“If you’re not getting better every day, then you’re falling behind” said Anand Lalaji, M.D., CEO of The Radiology Group Ltd. (TRG), LLC in Duluth, GA. Given the firm’s rapid growth, clearly Dr. Lalaji and his innovative remote reading team practice what they preach. Supported by their technology partner Neurostar Solutions Inc. — which has provided a unique and highly effective remote image reading and storage platform that, according to Dr. Lalaji, also gets better everyday — the firm is well positioned for ongoing expansion.


Today patients present to the emergency department (ED) with a slew of complaints and injuries ranging from a chronic cough to a sudden life-threatening head trauma. As such, the ED is no longer reserved for those patients with dire life or death circumstances, as the standards of emergency care apply to all patients and handle a larger caseload.

Clinicians at Edward Cancer Center in Naperville, IL are using a Trilogy system from Varian Medical Systems to offer cancer patients image-guided stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), and also to adapt treatments as the tumor responds, sparing more healthy tissues and, in some cases, making radiotherapy a viable option where it would not have been.

Frustrated by the time it took for hospitals in the Bay Area of Houston to acquire technology she felt provided the best possible breast care, Dr. Susan Gaskill mustered her courage, tenacity and vision to open her own breast imaging center in October 2006.


They say that good things come in small packages, and if it has high-quality visualization tools, it’s even better. Medical imaging devices are miniaturizing and, as a result, opening up tremendous potential for taking advanced technology to the bedside.

Most blogs are soapboxes for highly-opinionated cyber junkies convinced that readers find their words worth reading. In the case of Roland Piquepaille, a blogger on ZDNet.com who reports on emerging technologies, he puts the onus on the reader to decide if the material he provides is “Worthwhile.” Recently, the readers cast their votes in favor of Imaging Technology News’ article “Radiology and GI Imaging Close the Divide” (ITN, April 2007).
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