Publications by authors named "E M Gill"

Background: Understanding venous congestion is critical to the management of many illnesses, but assessing volume status can be challenging. The current gold standard for volume status assessment of right heart catheterization (RHC) is invasive, costly, and often unavailable. Venous Excess Ultrasound Score (VExUS) is a novel ultrasound protocol for to assessment of venous congestion using the inferior vena cava, hepatic, portal and renal veins.

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Aims: Brachytherapy is advantageous for localised rhabdomyosarcomas in children compared with external beam radiotherapy, sparing close organs at risk with highly conformal dosimetry. A methodology for planning and delivering fractionated high-dose-rate paediatric pelvic brachytherapy is detailed, and the dosimetric parameters are presented. This provides a practical template for radiotherapy departments with a similar patient cohort to implement this treatment technique.

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The construction industry is rapidly adopting Industry 4.0 technologies, creating new opportunities to address persistent environmental and operational challenges. This review focuses on how Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) are being leveraged to tackle these issues.

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  • Inpatient hospices (IHs) showed potential to reduce distress and financial burden for terminal lung cancer patients, but findings on cost savings and medication use were inconsistent.
  • A study analyzed data from 31,139 Korean patients who died between 2017 and 2020, focusing on hospitalization costs and medication use depending on the timing of their first hospitalization before death.
  • Results indicated that IHs had lower costs during the final 30 days of life but no difference in total costs for the year before death, and they prescribed significantly more opioid analgesics and other symptom-oriented medications compared to non-IHs.
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We present the case of 53-year-old woman with a late diagnosis of an right pulmonary artery-left atrium fistula who underwent transcatheter device closure using multi-modality imaging for pre-procedural planning and procedural guidance.

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