One common concern emergency medicine professionals face is the risk for acute kidney injury (AKI) secondary to the use of intravenous (IV) contrast for CT studies. Currently, emergency medicine ...
Intravenous contrast media (typically iohexol or iodixanol) used in computed tomography (CT) does not appear to be associated with chronic kidney disease, dialysis, kidney transplant or acute kidney ...
Erin Dwyer has been doing a lot of waiting. After a sonogram in December, she found out that she has a growth on her right kidney and had to wait months to see a specialist. Now she’s waiting for a CT ...
Point-of-care creatinine devices ABL800 FLEX, i‑STAT Alinity and StatSensor, which calculate estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), are recommended to assess kidney function to guide decisions ...
Hospitals across the U.S. are being forced to ration medical scans and procedures after a lockdown in Shanghai hit a plant that produces a widely used contrast dye. The dye, made by General Electric, ...
Intravenous contrast media (typically iohexol or iodixanol) used in computed tomography (CT) does not appear to be associated with chronic kidney disease, dialysis, kidney transplant or acute kidney ...
Jan. 21 (UPI) --Two major healthcare professional societies issued consensus statements Tuesday in support of the use of IV-administered contrast solutions during CT scans. The groups -- the American ...
Hospitals are just learning about and are very concerned that a shortage of the fluid they use to make CT scans and MRIs more readable may last until late June. For example, The University of Alabama ...
Complimentary Educational Session Scheduled for March 11 As imaging volumes continue to grow, virtual supervision ...
Unenhanced CT was about 30% less accurate than contrast-enhanced CT for the evaluation of acute abdominal pain in the emergency department (ED), a retrospective study showed. Of 201 adult patients, ...
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