Health Care Feels the Heat: A Primer for Radiologists on Climate Change-Related Regulatory and Policy Trends.

In the ensuing decade, health care will encounter risks and opportunities stemming from a regulatory and policy environment that is increasingly shaped by the climate crisis. The startling multiplication of climate change-related extreme weather events has increased public support for action, creating pressure on policymakers and regulatory agencies to provide solutions. Health care must decarbonize along with other sectors of the economy; therefore, health care organizations should be prepared to respond to climate-related regulations and take advantage of abundant green energy incentives to achieve the largest greenhouse gas emissions reductions possible and capture financial opportunities related to the national green energy transition.

A CT Algorithm Can Elevate the Differential Diagnosis of Interstitial Lung Disease by Non-specialists to Equal That of Specialist Thoracic Radiologists.

Background: Diagnosis of diffuse parenchymal lung diseases (DPLD) on high resolution CT (HRCT) is difficult for non-expert radiologists due to varied presentation for any single disease and overlap in presentation between diseases.

Rationale And Objectives: To evaluate whether a pattern-based training algorithm can improve the ability of non-experts to diagnosis of DPLD.

Materials And Methods: Five experts (cardiothoracic-trained radiologists), and 25 non-experts (non-cardiothoracic-trained radiologists, radiology residents, and pulmonologists) were each assigned a semi-random subset of cases from a compiled database of DPLD HRCTs.

Evaluation of the Clinical Utility of Routine Daily Chest Radiography in Intensive Care Unit Patients With Tracheostomy Tubes: A Retrospective Review.

Background: The utilization of imaging procedures is under scrutiny due to high costs and radiation exposure to patients and staff associated with some radiologic procedures. Within our institution's intensive care unit (ICU), it is common for patients to undergo chest radiography (CR) not only immediately following tracheostomy tube placement but also on a daily basis, irrespective of the patient's clinical status. We hypothesize that the clinical utility of performing routine daily CR on patients with tracheostomy tubes is low and leads to unnecessary financial cost.