Search Tag: Bedside

ICU Management

Bedside-ultrasonography-6-success-factors-for-implementation

2017 27 Jan

Nidhi Nikhani, MD, shares  6 steps to implement ultrasonography in critical care, based on implementing ultrasound-guided central venous catheterisation (CVC) at Banner Health. 1. Define clinical challenges to be solved by implementing bedside ultrasound Banner Health faced the challenge of placing peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC)...Read more

IMAGING Management

Hybrid-camera-to-improve-tumour-diagnosis

2015 02 Jun

A 'hybrid technology' mini camera that combines optical and gamma imaging to improve diagnosis and lymph and tumour removal efficiency, is being developed by researchers from the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham.   The new mobile camera will advance nuclear imaging by allowing imaging procedures at a patient’s bedside, in operating theatres...Read more

ICU Management

Is-it-a-stroke-or-benign-dizziness-a-simple-bedside-test-can-tell

2013 26 Mar

Georgios Mantokoudis, left, and Ali Tehrani demonstrate the use of a video-oculography machine that detects minute eye movements that are difficult for most physicians to notice and can help diagnose stroke. (Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine) Small Johns Hopkins-led study finds portable device diagnoses stroke with 100 percent accuracy. A bedside...Read more

ICU Management

Is-it-a-stroke-or-benign-dizziness-a-simple-bedside-test-can-tell-1

2013 06 Mar

Georgios Mantokoudis, left, and Ali Tehrani demonstrate the use of a video-oculography machine that detects minute eye movements that are difficult for most physicians to notice and can help diagnose stroke. (Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine) Small Johns Hopkins-led study finds portable device diagnoses stroke with 100 percent accuracy. A bedside...Read more