CT scans are vital to diagnosing brain bleeds but also involve high amounts of radiation exposure. Following specific ...

The first to be cleared, designed to spot large vessel occlusion strokes, came in 2018, then was followed by AI tools for CT perfusion, intracranial hemorrhage, pulmonary embolism and aortic disease.

Everyone who comes to the hospital with a suspected intracerebral hemorrhage undergoes a computerized tomography (CT) scan of the brain. Depending on the severity of the hemorrhage, neurosurgery ...

We live in an age where medical technology can uncover what the naked eye can’t, and CT scans are a major part of that advancement. But with growing chatter around radiation exposure and potential ...

The rule, based on a prospective cohort study of more than 4300 adults age 65 years and older who presented to 11 Canadian EDs after a fall, has a sensitivity of 98.6%, a specificity of 20.3%, and ...

Alcohol can raise the risk of falls by making people less steady on their feet and affecting their thinking and reaction time. As people get older, their bodies don’t handle alcohol as well as they ...

“We developed a decision rule indicating that no head CT is required if there is no history of head injury on falling; no amnesia of the fall; no new abnormality on neurologic examination; and ...

The investigators looked at CT scans from 369 patients who presented to a facility in the Yale New Haven Health system (inpatient and ED) between March 2014 and February 2020.

Since 2007, use of CT scans has increased 35 percent, an increase not entirely explained by population growth, they note. Outside experts agreed that CT scans should be used judiciously.