Association Between Implementation of a Geriatric Trauma Clinical Pathway and Changes in Rates of Delirium in Older Adults With Traumatic Injury.

Importance: Older adults (age ≥65 years) are at risk for high rates of delirium and poor outcomes; however, how to improve outcomes is still being explored.

Objective: To assess whether implementation of a geriatric trauma clinical pathway was associated with reduced rates of delirium in older adults with traumatic injury.

Design, Setting, And Participants: A retrospective case-control study of electronic health records of patients aged 65 years or older with traumatic injury from 2018 to 2020 was conducted at a single level I trauma center.

Referring physician perspective on how to handle frequent use of CT imaging.

The increasing use of computed tomography (CT) and other relatively high radiation dose exams in a recurrent manner result in radiation risks to individual patients. Recent studies have provided alarming information not only to the radiological community but also to referring physicians. We, as referring physicians, are often implicated in the overuse of imaging.

Increased F-18 FDG uptake on positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging caused by plantar fibromatosis.

We detail the history and evaluation of a 68-year-old man who had head-to-toe PET/CT scanning that showed a focal area of increased FDG uptake in the left medial foot. This was thought to be recurrence of his melanoma. The patient was asymptomatic.

F18 fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in progressive transformation of germinal centres.

FDG-PET/CT is a widely established imaging modality for staging, restaging and monitoring therapy response in lymphoma patients. Progressive transformation of germinal centres (PTGC) is a benign condition presenting characteristically as asymptomatic lymphadenopathy. This paper presents a case of a 53-year-old man with a history of Hodgkin's disease (HD) whose F(18) FDG-PET/CT scan showed high uptake in left axillary lymph nodes (SUV 3.

Advanced adenoma diagnosis with FDG PET in a visibly normal mucosa: a case report.

Background: An accurate, early diagnosis and treatment of adenomatous polyp can curtail progression to colorectal cancer. F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (F-18 FDG PET) reveals the biochemical changes associated with the development of many cancers which precede the appearance of gross anatomical changes that may be visualized during surgical resection or via imaging with MR or CT.

Intervention: We detail the history of a 64 year old female who had a whole-body FDG PET scan as a part of an employee wellness program.

Comparison of arterial and venous pH, bicarbonate, PCO2 and PO2 in initial emergency department assessment.

Objective: To determine the agreement between arterial and venous samples in a pathologically diverse patient population presenting at an emergency department (ED) with a view to obviating the need for arterial blood gas (ABG) analysis in initial ED evaluation.

Methods: Prospective study of 95 patients (69 males, 26 females, mean (SD) age 52 (1.6) years) with diverse medical conditions, presenting at a tertiary health centre ED and deemed by the treating physician to require an ABG analysis.