Publications by authors named "Luke E Wilkinson"
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- The study examined the risks of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in different weight categories: non-obese, obese, and morbidly obese patients, finding no significant differences in major adverse cardiovascular or cerebrovascular events among the groups.
- Obese patients were generally younger, more often female and diabetic, and had better renal function than non-obese patients. However, they required higher amounts of contrast and experienced increased radiation exposure during PCI.
- The findings suggest that while PCI is safe for obese and morbidly obese patients in terms of clinical outcomes, the related radiation exposure is higher and warrants the need for strategies to reduce it.
To meet the educational needs of a medical imaging department with a strong teaching commitment, a teaching file that uses digital data supplied by the institutional picture archiving and communications system (PACS) was required. This teaching file had to be easily used by the end users, have a simple submission process, be able to support multiple users, be searchable on all data fields, and implementing the teaching file must not incur any additional software or hardware costs. The teaching file developed to address this problem takes advantage of the database structure and capabilities of several components included in the commercial PACS installed at the hospital.
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