from a stroke must have a brain scan within 24hours to ensure the best diagnosis can be given to them allowing them to recover much better. Other tests are carried out to help the doctors realise the other smaller effects that the stroke has had upon the patient‚ these tests are smaller and easier to do but are no less important in allowing the stroke to be diagnosed. Brain Imaging (CT and MRI) CT and MRI scans are popular methods to carry out brain imaging. CT scan is rather like an X-ray which is
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depressed skull fragment. Patient with a significant head injury‚ history of loss of consciousness (LOC)‚ or postconcussive sequelae required immediate evaluation by CT scan. CT scan of the brain should be the initial screening tool for patient with symptoms indicating moderate to high risk of closed head injury. Technically‚ the CT scan images should be displayed with three windows: brain (shows edema‚ gray-white interface‚ ventricles‚ and cistern)‚ bone
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only one facility that offers CT scan and ultrasound in the area and the facility is about forty miles away. This will ensure that all our patients are getting all their imaging here at the hospital instead of driving
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MRI is useful for the follow-up of the blunt liver trauma. Angiography is specifically useful in the patients with stable liver trauma. Angiography is required in cases of extravasation of contrast on CT scan‚ which also detects exact location of bleeding. Sensitivity of angiogram is 75 % and specificity is 70- 93%. Angiography and angioembolization together is beneficial in case of rebleeding is suspected patients [10]-[11] (Carrillo‚ 1999; Ciraulo‚ 1998)
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hazardous (barium meal). * Harmful radiation. * Unsuitable for pregnant women | CAT scans(Computer Tomography Scans) | A CT scan stands for Computed Tomography scan. It is also known as a CAT (Computer Axial Tomography) scans. It is a medical imaging method that employs tomography. Tomography is the process of generating a two-dimensional image of a slice or section through a 3-dimensional object (a tomogram) | * CT scanning is useful to get a very detailed 3-D image of certain parts of the body
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X-ray‚ CT scan‚ or MRI can seem like a good idea. But back pain usually subsides in about a month‚ with or without testing. Back-pain sufferers in a 2010 study who had an MRI within the first month didn’t recover any faster than those who didn’t have the test—but were eight times as likely to have surgery‚ and had a five-fold increase in medical costs. The risks: One study projected 1‚200 new cancer cases based on the 2.2 million CT scans done for lower-back pain in the U.S. in 2007. CT scans and X-rays
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into an advanced diagnostic operational tool computed tomography (CT). “CT unit provide cross-sectional views of the body and is able to obtain several dozen images for information with one exposure”. (Gurley‚ Callaway‚ 2011‚ 87). The reason to do a research
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into the ICU with intense head trauma‚ and had just undergone brain surgery. We were required to take a CT- Scan on his brain. I was instructed to help lift him off of his stretcher and onto the CT bed. I had to lift his head while the rest of the doctors and techs lifted the rest of his body. It was quite the experience. The second night that I went into the hospital there were many CT-Scans that were performed. The first patient was a man that had deep
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135799 Room No. CCU4 X-ray 10-0460 Referring Physician: Simon Williams‚ MD from pulmonology. Reason for exam is hemoptysis Date of exam is 01/10 Procedure: Ct scan of chest without contrast Findings: Ct scan of the chest was performed in 7 mm axial sections with no intrrveous contrast enhancement. Comparison is made to previous ct scans made during his admission last year. There is interval resolution of the previously noted cavitary lesions in both upper lobes. However‚ there is evidence of
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the MSCT give a great help in diagnosis of new clinical applications such as heart and vascular CT application‚ orthopedics and trauma imaging‚ comprehensive brain and stroke assessment and many more. From this assignment‚ the topics that would be discusses regarding the
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