Study Group: PACS Purchasers: Radiologists(?)

1) Population-based statistics and overall 5 year survival data dominate discussions of cancer therapy. Treatment regimens optmized to specific individuals (and their malgnancies) seems most promising as a pathway to a cure. 2) Current methods of assessing responses to treatment are limited...

1) Prior research has shown that ~25% of patients presenting to the ER with new onset TIA's will return within the following 48 hours - ~10% with CVA, ~10% with MI & ~5% DOA. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/284/22/2901?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fullt...

1) Consensus guidelines are emerging from intersociety collaborations, resulting in evidence-based diagnosis and treatment recommendations with broad applicability, and potentially, efficacy and cost containment. 2) The guidelines stress results-oriented diagnostic pathways: don't perform diagnostic...

1) US bone for grafting is obtained either from the patient's own bone (donor sites such as iliac crest/pelvis) or from human, protein-depleted cadaver sources. 2) All bone for implant in the US is denatured and sterilized before use. 3) Most studies have shown the it is the neural tissue (brain, spinal...

Quoted from the article: "The drugs contain microscopic gas-filled spheres and are injected into the veins of patients before their hearts are examined with ultrasound. After a few minutes, the gas leaves the body. The drugs, known as contrast agents, sharpen the pictures of the heart during...