Laryngeal Radiation Fibrosis: A Case of Failed Awake Flexible Fibreoptic Intubation

Laryngeal Radiation Fibrosis: A Case of Failed Awake Flexible Fibreoptic Intubation

In patients with severe upper airway narrowing because of radiation fibrosis, an awake fibreoptic intubation may be impossible and a tracheotomy is the only means of securing this airway; however, there may be no evident... read more

Percutaneous Ultrasound Guided Gastrostomy Tube Placement

Percutaneous Ultrasound Guided Gastrostomy Tube Placement

Percutaneous ultrasound guided gastrostomy (PUG) is similar in terms of complications to percutaneous gastrostomy tube (PRG) placement and a safe method for gastrostomy tube placement in the critically ill with the added... read more

Many Doctors Have Distorted Perceptions of the Value of Medical Tests

Many Doctors Have Distorted Perceptions of the Value of Medical Tests

In 2014, the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care recommended against the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test used to screen for prostate cancer in healthy men, concluding that it results in substantial harms via... read more

Communicating Context in Quality Improvement Reports

Communicating Context in Quality Improvement Reports

The study by Demb and colleagues reports on the positive results of an intervention strategy to reduce excess radiation exposure across 5 academic medical centers associated with the University of California. Leading up to... read more

Excessive Resource Utilization

Excessive Resource Utilization

Overuse is inconsistent with professionalism because of the associated patient and societal harms and should receive equal attention as adverse events in health systems. Timely communication by inpatient specialists with... read more

Upright CT for lung cancer therapy planning used at Chicago Proton Center

Upright CT for lung cancer therapy planning used at Chicago Proton Center

The Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center will be the first proton center in the U.S. to use P-Cure new P-ARTIS CT on patients being treated for lung cancer. Traditionally, patients lie flat on their backs during CT... read more

RSNA attendees warned by FBI about the threat of radiation theft from hospitals

RSNA attendees warned by FBI about the threat of radiation theft from hospitals

FBI and Department of Energy reps briefed a room full of RSNA attendees in Chicago last week about a growing litany of concerns ranging from disgruntled medical employees stealing radioactive materials, to patients setting... read more

Physicians at RSNA make case for contrast enhanced ultrasound

Physicians at RSNA make case for contrast enhanced ultrasound

The procedure, which was OK'd by the FDA this year for liver screening, but is currently not approved in the U.S. for cardiac disease shows particular value in imaging children who may otherwise have to undergo a CT... read more

FDA to radiologists: stop using any Multidata Systems devices

FDA to radiologists: stop using any Multidata Systems devices

At least two devices distributed in U.S. without FDA approval. There have been at least two Multidata medical devices that the company manufactured and distributed in the United States for which FDA never received nor reviewed... read more