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News and Articles on Ultrafast CT
Doctor behind South Beach Diet revamps his life, series Jan 30, 2008
At Mount Sinai he helped develop an ultrafast CT scan for measuring calcium in coronary arteries as a predictor of heart attack and stroke scans that today are measured on the Agatston Scale. But as he treated patients, he saw that their attempts to lose weight on the low-fat, high-carb diet recommended by the American Heart Association were failing. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Privacy Rule Slows Scientific Discovery And Adds Cost To Research, Scientists Say Nov 15, 2007
(May 18, 2007) Although pulmonary embolisms (PE) are the second-leading cause of sudden death in the US, blood tests and ultrafast CT scanning to detect PE are being used on so many patients that over 90 percent of. (Sep. (Science Daily)
Ruling out pulmonary embolism with a simple bedside protocol May 16, 2007
Although clots in the lung (pulmonary embolism or PE) are the second-leading cause of sudden death in the United States, blood tests and ultrafast CT scanning to detect PE are being used on so many patients that over 90% of these tests are negative. In a paper to be presented at the 2007 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Meeting, Jeff Kline, MD, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, will show that the use of simple clinical criteria can eliminate the risk and expense of... (EurekAlert!)
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