Does the Location of Endotracheal Intubation Affect the Success of Airway Management in a Helicopter Air Ambulance Service? A Simulation Study.

Objective: Airway management is a cornerstone of helicopter air ambulance patient management. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the overall quality of airway management of critical care crews in 3 common locations for intubation.

Methods: This was a prospective observational simulation study assessing the overall airway management of critical care providers managing simulated patients in an emergency department, helicopter, and ambulance.

A Scoping Literature Review on Patient Education in Intermittent Catheterization.

Purpose: To summarize evidence related to (1) research studies examining patient/caregiver educational interventions related to intermittent self/caregiver catheterization (ISC), (2) studies examining issues related to teaching ISC, and (3) evidence-based clinical practice guidelines addressing ISC.

Problem: Avoiding lower urinary tract trauma during catheter insertion, adequate frequency of catheterization, and complete emptying of the bladder are essential to prevent and reduce complications associated with ISC. Consequently, proper patient/caregiver education is essential to achieving good outcomes.

Patient Education in Intermittent Catheterization: A Consensus Conference.

Despite recent advances in intermittent catheter features, evidence guiding how to best educate patients when beginning and continuing a program of intermittent catheterization remains sparse. To address this gap and guide best practice, a scoping review was conducted and a consensus panel of clinicians and researchers with expertise in intermittent catheterization was convened in person during December 2022 in Austin, Texas, to develop evidence and consensus-based statements guiding instruction of patients beginning intermittent self or assisted catheterization. This article describes the 15 consensus-based statements that can be used to guide best practice in patient education on intermittent catheterization.

Perceptions of Radiation Safety Culture Among Radiography, Computed Tomography, And Mammography Technologists.

Purpose: To investigate determinants of radiation safety culture among radiologic technologists to determine whether factors related to the primary imaging modality affect the perception of workplace radiation safety.

Methods: A secondary analysis was performed on deidentified data from 425 radiologic technologists collected with the Radiation Actions and Dimensions of Radiation Safety (RADS) questionnaire, a 35-item survey with valid and reliable psychometric properties. The data included radiologic technologists working in radiography, computed tomography (CT), and mammography.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for late radiation tissue injury.

Background: This is the third update of the original Cochrane Review published in July 2005 and updated previously in 2012 and 2016. Cancer is a significant global health issue. Radiotherapy is a treatment modality for many malignancies, and about 50% of people having radiotherapy will be long-term survivors.

Effects of Work Shift or Shift Length on Radiation Safety Perception.

Purpose: This study investigated several determinants of radiation safety culture among radiologic technologists to determine whether factors related to work shifts or workday length affect the perception of workplace radiation safety.

Methods: The secondary analysis used de-identified data from 425 radiologic technologists collected with the Radiation Actions and Dimensions of Radiation Safety (RADS) questionnaire, a 35-item survey with valid and reliable psychometric properties. Respondents included radiologic technologists working in radiography, computed tomography (CT), mammography, and hospital radiology administration.

Perceptions of Radiation Safety Culture in Medical Imaging by Role.

Purpose: To determine whether radiologic technologists' perceptions of determinants of radiation safety culture differ significantly based on their primary role.

Methods: A secondary analysis of deidentified data from 425 radiologic technologists who participated in the Radiation Actions and Dimensions of Radiation Safety questionnaire, a 35-item survey with valid and reliable psychometric properties, was performed. Nine determinants (dependent variables) of radiation safety culture were analyzed in this study.

AAPM task group report 305: Guidance for standardization of vendor-neutral reject analysis in radiography.

Reject rate analysis is considered an integral part of a diagnostic radiography quality control (QC) program. A rejected image is a patient radiograph that was not presented to a radiologist for diagnosis and that contributes unnecessary radiation dose to the patient. Reject rates that are either too high or too low may suggest systemic department shortcomings in QC mechanisms.

Radiologic Technologists' Knowledge of And Comfort Explaining Effective Dose.

Purpose: To examine U.S. radiologic technologists' perceived level of knowledge of radiation effective dose, their level of comfort communicating effective dose information for common imaging procedures to patients, and their ability to compare effective doses for different medical imaging procedures.

Radiologic Technologists' Perceived Reasons for Inappropriate Imaging.

Purpose: To examine whether radiologic technologists' perceptions of imaging appropriateness differed based on their primary imaging modality, work shift, shift length, and primary practice type.

Methods: A national, cross-sectional study was conducted in the fourth quarter of 2019 using a simple, randomized sample of American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) members. Study participants were employed in health care settings in radiography, computed tomography (CT), mammography, or radiology leadership.

Radiologic Technologists' Perceptions of Imaging Appropriateness in Radiography, CT, and Mammography.

Purpose: To determine U.S.-based radiologic technologists' perceptions of imaging appropriateness by imaging modality and to examine relationships between descriptive variables and perception of imaging appropriateness scores.

Intractable Seizures and Limbic Encephalitis, Unaccounted Complications of Type 1 Diabetes Autoimmunity.

Glutamic acid decarboxylase 65kD autoantibody (GAD65Ab) is frequently detected in patients with refractory epilepsy and stiff person syndrome. In contrast to T1D, the pathological role of GAD65Ab in neurological disorders is still debatable. As a result, the implementation of possible immunotherapy is usually delayed.

The standardization of clinical ethics consultation and technique's "long encirclement" of humanity: a response to Brummett and Muaygil.

In their recent article, Brummett and Muaygil reject Bishop et al.'s framing of the debate over standardization in clinical ethics consultation (CEC) "as one between pro-credentialing procedural and anti-credentialing phenomenological," claiming that this framing "amounts to a false dichotomy between two extreme approaches to CEC." Instead of accepting proceduralism and phenomenology as a binary, Brummett and Muaygil propose that these two views should be seen as the extreme ends of a spectrum upon which CEC should be done.

Determinants of Overall Perception of Radiation Safety Among Radiologic Technologists.

Purpose: To examine the determinants of radiation safety culture among radiologic technologists in the United States. The specific aims were to report descriptive statistics related to radiation safety culture determinants and examine relationships between specific determinants of radiation safety culture and overall perception of radiation safety (OPRS).

Methods: Radiologic technologists working in radiography, mammography, and computed tomography were identified using the American Society of Radiologic Technologists membership database.

Guillain-Barré syndrome after aortic, tricuspid, and mitral valve surgery.

Guillain-Barré syndrome incidence within 8 weeks of a surgical procedure appears to be more common than previously thought. GBS following open-heart surgery is exceedingly rare, perhaps underdiagnosed or underreported given surveillance data incidence. Clinicians should be keenly aware of this association and quickly consider a GBS diagnosis.

Validity and Reliability of a Radiation Safety Culture Survey Instrument for Radiologic Technologists.

Purpose: To design and evaluate a survey instrument to quantitatively examine radiologic technologists' perception of radiation safety culture.

Methods: A survey instrument with determinants related to radiation actions and dimensions of radiation safety (RADS) was designed through a multisequential process involving content and scale validity and internal reliability. A 6-member panel evaluated content validity, and 425 radiologic technologists participated in the study to determine the reliability of the survey instrument items and determinant scales.

Prepapillary vascular loop-a new classification.

Background/objectives: To analyze the ophthalmic characteristics of congenital prepapillary vascular loop (PVL) and to propose a new morphologic classification dividing the loops into six types.

Subjects/methods: Collaborative multinational multicentre retrospective study of PVL cases.

Results: There was a total of 49 cases (61 eyes), 37 unilateral (75.