15 results match your criteria: "University Hospitals Samaritan Medical Center[Affiliation]"

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  • The ASFA Attending Physician Subcommittee reviewed 2023 apheresis literature and selected the top 10 seminal articles in the field.
  • They focused on four main topics: donor apheresis, therapeutic apheresis, education, and cellular therapy, using PubMed and OVID for research.
  • The chosen articles met key criteria such as novel findings, practice-changing results, and relevance to current clinical practice, while excluding case reports, reviews, and meta-analyses.
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Background and Clinical Implications of CCTA and CT-based Fractional Flow Reserve.

Radiol Technol

September 2024

Stefanie Carpenter, BSRS, R.T.(R)(M), CSCCT, is senior computed tomography application specialist for HeartFlow in Redwood City, California.

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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic affected healthcare delivery across all specialties including apheresis. To describe the changes in apheresis service practices that occurred during the pandemic, the American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) Apheresis Medicine Attending Physician Subcommittee conducted a survey study.

Study Design And Methods: A 32-question survey was designed and distributed to 400 ASFA physician members on September 7, 2022.

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Photon-Counting CT Binning and Electronic Noise Reduction.

Radiol Technol

March 2024

Kevin L Wininger, BS, BS, R.T.(R)(CT)(CI), is computed tomography technologist and cardiac interventional technologist at University Hospitals Samaritan Medical Center in Ashland, Ohio, as well as at University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood, Ohio.

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Physiological Relevance of Right Heart Catheterization.

Radiol Technol

September 2023

Kevin L Wininger, BS, BS, R.T.(R)(CT)(CI), is a computed tomography technologist and cardiac interventional technologist at University Hospitals Samaritan Medical Center in Ashland, Ohio, as well as at University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood, Ohio.

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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic introduced challenges and disruption across healthcare, including apheresis medicine (AM). In this study, we report findings from a survey conducted among American Society for Apheresis Physician Committee (ASFA-PC) members to describe the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on AM education practices.

Study Design And Methods: A voluntary, anonymous, 24-question, institutional review board-approved survey regarding AM teaching during the pandemic was distributed to ASFA-PC members in the United States between December 1, 2020, and December 15, 2020.

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Coronary Physiology Testing and Flow Reserve Indices.

Radiol Technol

May 2023

Kevin L Wininger, BS, BS, R.T.(R)(CI), is a cardiac interventional technologist and computed tomography technologist at University Hospitals Samaritan Medical Center in Ashland, Ohio, and at University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood, Ohio.

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Follow-up Care for Patients With Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices.

Radiol Technol

May 2023

Kevin L Wininger, BS, BS, R.T.(R)(CI), is a cardiac interventional technologist and computed tomography technologist at University Hospitals Samaritan Medical Center in Ashland, Ohio, and at University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood, Ohio.

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Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty: History, Current Techniques, And Future Directions.

Radiol Technol

September 2022

Kevin L Wininger, BS, BS, R.T.(R)(CI), is a cardiac interventional technologist at University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood, Ohio, as well as at University Hospitals Samaritan Medical Center in Ashland, Ohio.

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Chemistry is interconnected with physics and biology. The periodic table of the elements demonstrates the fundamentals of chemistry that underpin the radiologic sciences in a logical and consistent fashion. This article provides an overview to better understand chemistry's function in radiology, including the chemistry of the human body, photoelectric effects, radiation chemistry, radiopharmaceuticals, molecular imaging, and radiation protection.

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Objective: Numerous attempts have been made to create a standardized "presenting problem" or "chief complaint" list to characterize the nature of an emergency department visit. Previous attempts have failed to gain widespread adoption as they were not freely shareable or did not contain the right level of specificity, structure, and clinical relevance to gain acceptance by the larger emergency medicine community. Using real-world data, we constructed a presenting problem list that addresses these challenges.

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