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WORLD’S CLINICAL NEWS LEADER ISSN 0898-7270 Vol.40 No.4 • 11/2022
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AI-Aided CT Detects Lung Cancer in Seconds
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ung cancer, the most common cancer worldwide, is targeted with radiation therapy (RT) in nearly one-half of cases. RT planning is a manual, resource-intensive process that can take days to weeks to complete, and even highly trained physicians vary in
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Novel Blood Volume Analysis Cuts Hospital Stay for Heart Patients by Half
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ffective management of patients hospitalized for heart failure remains problematic despite advances in medical therapy. Hospitals and clinicians struggle with readmissions, mortality and wasted resources. There is a need for accurate, actionable data to
allow clinicians to optimize treatment plans and individualize care, thereby improving outcomes and reducing duration and cost of care. Now, new data has validated the benefits of a diagnostic blood test in reducing hospital length of stay (LOS) for heart failure patients.
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Ultra-Fast MRI Could Transform Heart Failure Diagnosis
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Polyp Detection System Is Gastro Game Changer
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olorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S. and Europe, due in part to the high volumes of adenomas – approximately 26% – that endoscopists miss when conducting a colonoscopy. Now, a real-time computer-aided polyp detection device that uses advanced computer vision technology to recognize suspicious tissue and provide real-time feedback to Cont’d on page 22
First Hand-Held Robot for Spinal Surgery
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n ewly-developed MRI technique called Kat-ARC produces detailed 4D heart flow images in 8 minutes instead of the previous 20 minutes, thus transforming the speed at which heart failure is diagnosed.
he world’s first hand-held robot framework equipped with a parallel manipulator for orthopedic application has made its worldwide debut in the U.S. Point Robotics MedTech Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan; www.pointrobo ticsinc.com) received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its minimally invasive surgical robot, POINT Kinguide RoboticAssisted Surgical System. An
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p to 90% of patients receive IV therapy at some point during their hospital stay, making it the most commonly performed invasive medical procedure in the U.S., and around the globe. Although it is routine,
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Vein Visualization Device Enables Accurate Catheter Placement
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Merger Creates World’s Largest Medical Image Exchange Network
ntelerad Medical Systems (Raleigh, NC, USA; www. intelerad.com), a leading global provider of enterprise imaging solutions, has acquired Life Image (Newton, MA, USA; www.lifeimage.com), one of
the largest image exchange networks of curated clinical and imaging data, creating the largest medical image exchange network in the world and laying the groundwork for the elimination of costly CDs as the Cont’d on page 3
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