Dear AuntMinnieEurope Member,
If you or a colleague gets it wrong when performing an intimate examination, you might well get sued. Like it or not, that's the reality today, because patients are becoming increasingly litigious and they tend to know their rights.
Given this background, new guidance from the U.K. Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) is most welcome. When an intimate examination is involved, the RCR advocates the more widespread use of chaperones, and it has other suggestions on how to avoid problems. Go to our Digital X-Ray Community, or click here.
The European Society of Cardiology's guidelines on conducting MRI examinations of pacemaker patients are inadequate, says Dr. Matthias Gutberlet from Leipzig, Germany. This situation has prompted the German Radiological Society to publish its own set of recommendations, and you can learn more in the MRI Community, or by clicking here.
It's a tough task to keep track of the numerous mobile phone applications available these days, but if you want some help with cancer staging, then you will want to check out the new app from the International Atomic Energy Agency. The developers say the app has particular value for physicians working in areas where there is limited access to medical resources and multidisciplinary care. Visit our Healthcare Informatics Community, or click here.
Medication or meditation? This dilemma might well arise more often in the future after imaging studies have confirmed that meditation can create the same physiological changes in the brain as medication for patients with clinical depression. Get the story here.
Meanwhile, Spanish surgeons have successfully implanted a customized 3D-printed titanium rib prosthesis based on high-resolution CT scans, according to a study published online in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Imaging. Go to the Advanced Visualization Community, or click here to find out more.
