Publications by authors named "G T McKinnon"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to compare the image quality and visibility of lesions in zero echo time (ZTE) MRI using a deep learning (DL) algorithm against conventional reconstruction methods, and to evaluate DL ZTE's effectiveness in assessing bone loss for shoulder instability compared to CT scans.
- Forty-four patients with shoulder instability underwent both ZTE MRI and CT scans, with images evaluated by two radiologists for clarity, resolution, and how well they showed lesions, using a rating scale.
- Results indicated that DL ZTE MRI images had superior resolution and showed lesions more clearly than conventional methods, with excellent agreement between DL ZTE and CT scans for measuring bone parameters.
Article Synopsis
- Harm reduction strategies at music festivals aim to improve safety by monitoring drug-related toxicity through the EDNAV project, which gathers drug intelligence from patients at hospitals.
- Blood samples from festival attendees with severe drug-related issues were analyzed for over 700 substances during the 2022/2023 festival season.
- The study found 228 cases of drug-related toxicity among 1603 medical encounters, with common drugs detected being MDMA, ketamine, and cocaine, alongside several unreported substances, indicating emerging drug use patterns.
Background: Four externally validated sentinel node biopsy (SNB) prediction nomograms exist for malignant melanoma that each incorporate different clinical and histopathologic variables, which can result in substantially different risk estimations for the same patient. We demonstrate this variability by using hypothetical melanoma cases.
Methods: We compared the MSKCC and MIA calculators.
Background: In the context of drug prohibition, potential adulteration and variable purity pose additional health risks for people who use drugs, with these risks often compounded by the outdoor music festival environment. Ahead of the imminent implementation of drug checking services in Queensland, Australia, this study aims to characterise this problem using triangulated survey and wastewater data to understand self-reported and detected drug use among attendees of a multi-day Queensland-based music festival in 2021 and 2022.
Methods: We administered an in-situ survey focusing on drug use at the festival to two convenience samples of 136 and 140 festival attendees in 2021 and 2022 respectively.