BMA advice on PAs 'would have saved our daughter's life', says Chesterton family
The parents of a woman who died from a pulmonary embolism after being treated by a physician associate (PA) - who she thought was a doctor - believe she would still be alive if she had seen a GP. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 7, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workforce Source Type: news

NLP model used with radiology reports identifies PE patients
A natural language processing (NLP)-based model using information from radiology reports can accurately identify patients presenting in the emergency department (ED) with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE), researchers have found. The study results could help clinicians determine appropriate treatment, wrote a team led by Krunal Amin, MD, of Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, NC. The group's findings were published March 2 in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. "[Our work suggests that] a natural language processing-based clinical decision support tool … can identify patients presenting to the emergency departm...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 6, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Imaging Informatics Source Type: news

ECR: More anatomical changes seen on angio-CT in COVID patients
Patients with COVID-19 experience a higher incidence of anatomical changes at the cardiac level on pulmonary angio-CT, suggest findings presented February 29 at ECR 2024. In her presentation, Ana Filipa Colucas, MD, PhD, from the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal, discussed her team’s findings, which also showed how the use of pulmonary angio-CT scans has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. “There were more changes in the diameter of the pulmonary artery trunk and the right ventricle in patients in the 41 to 60 years age group and in males,” Colucas said. Previous studies suggest an association between CO...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 29, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: CT Source Type: news

Two-thirds ED Visits for Low-Risk PE Admitted Unnecessarily Two-thirds ED Visits for Low-Risk PE Admitted Unnecessarily
Nearly two thirds of ED visits by patients with acute pulmonary embolism resulted in unnecessary hospitalization, suggested a new study.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Headlines - February 19, 2024 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news

Avicenna.AI and Blackford enter strategic partnership
French AI software developer Avicenna.AI will integrate its CINA-iPE pulmonary embolism detection algorithm on Blackford’s AI platform. The collaboration will offer clinicians new capabilities for detecting incidental blood clots during chest CT angiography scans, Avicenna said. Blackford’s AI platform provides access to more than 115 AI products designed to drive clinical efficiencies and improve patient outcomes, the company noted. (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - February 14, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Artificial Intelligence Source Type: news

Little Change Seen in Rates of ED Discharge After Acute Pulmonary Embolism
MONDAY, Jan. 29, 2024 -- For patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE), the rates of discharge from the emergency department were stable between 2012 and 2020, according to a study published online Jan. 30 in the Annals of Internal... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - January 29, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Artificial intelligence technologies expanding possibilities in health care
Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on  Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Pulmonary embolism kills more patients than HIV, breast cancer and motor vehicle accidents combined, according TriHealth’s Dr. Chris Hayner, a specialist in critical care and pulmonology,  in the latest episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast.  “It’s a fairly prominent problem, and for probably 40 years, we really only had two forms of treatment — either to give patients blood… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - January 26, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: TriHealth Source Type: news

Mortality Reaches 20% for Hospitalized Patients With High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism
(MedPage Today) -- Mortality rates were high among patients with high-risk pulmonary embolism (PE), with the worst outcomes in those with hemodynamic collapse, according to a retrospective analysis of the Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - January 1, 2024 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Catheter-Directed Plan Improves Pulmonary Artery Occlusion Catheter-Directed Plan Improves Pulmonary Artery Occlusion
The Bashir endovascular catheter was designed to maximize thrombus reduction via a pharmacomechanical infusion.MDedge News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - December 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pulmonary Medicine Source Type: news

Thrombectomy use increasing to treat VTE
The use of arterial and venous thrombectomy to treat blood clots has increased significantly over the past five years, according to research presented November 30 at the RSNA meeting. Stephanie McNamara, PhD, of Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, presented a study that found procedure rates for venous thromboembolism (VTE) increased by 75% between 2017 and 2022. However, these rates remain low considering the total number of cases per year, McNamara said. “The incidence of [venous thromboembolism] is expected to grow, creating opportunities to expand the use of these noninvasive procedures,” she noted in a poster p...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 5, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Interventional Source Type: news

Mechanical Thrombectomy Safe, Effective for High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism
FRIDAY, Dec. 1, 2023 -- Mechanical thrombectomy (MT) is safe and effective in real-world, high-risk patients with pulmonary embolism (PE), according to a study published online Oct. 31 in the Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - December 1, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

PCCT visualizes pulmonary embolism at reduced radiation dose
Photon-counting CT (PCCT) effectively visualizes pulmonary embolism (PE) and reduces radiation dose by 48% compared with traditional CT, according to research presented November 27 at the RSNA meeting. "[PCCT] ensures confident depiction of acute PE with spectral imaging available at low radiation dose in all patient categories," said presenter Martine Remy-Jardin, MD, PhD, of the University Centre of Lille in France. Remy-Jardin and colleagues conducted a study that compared performance of traditional CT to PCCT for diagnosing acute PE. The research included a group of patients referred for suspicion of acute pulmonary ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 30, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: RSNA 2023 CT Chest Radiology Conference Source Type: news

High-Sensitivity Troponin Test May Overestimate Risk in PE
(MedPage Today) -- For patients with hemodynamically stable pulmonary embolism (PE), there was no prognostic value found for the mild elevations in cardiac troponin captured only on high-sensitivity assays at the emergency room, based on an exploratory... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - November 22, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

PCCT improves CTPA exam image quality at lower radiation dose
High-pitch photon-counting CT (PCCT) improves image quality on CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) for patients with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) – at lower radiation doses, researchers have found.The results highlight PCCT's potential value for diagnosing suspected PE, according to a team led by Pauline Pannenbecker, MD, of University Hospital Würzburg in Germany."CTPA may benefit from [a PCCT] technique," they noted.Acute PE is a common and often fatal condition, making early detection and treatment crucial, the team noted. CTPA is the go-to test for the diagnostic workup of suspected PE due to benefits such as short...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 16, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Subspecialties Chest Radiology Source Type: news

Road to RSNA 2023: CT
Photon-counting CT (PCCT) has dominated discussion for the last number of RSNA meetings, and this year will be no exception. Expect to hear PCCT research findings about how the technology can increase image quality and lower radiation dose in pulmonary angiography for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism; how it appears to boost the contrast-to-noise ratio of vascular structures on chest CT; and what it has to offer in the musculoskeletal arena. Meeting attendees will also get the scoop on the role CT radiomics can play in clinical care, particularly helping clinicians determine the best treatment for patients sufferi...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 13, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: 2023 2023 CT Preview Source Type: news