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  • Seeing Double

    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been researching hospitals that order too many CT scans. They particularly looked at the ordering of “double scans” or two scans ordered for the same patient; one with a contrast agent and the other without. “Such double scans are rarely necessary, and expose patients to 700 times as much ...
    Posted to Juney’s World: Days in the Life of a CT Technologist (Weblog) on December 31, 2012

  • Preserve Your Options

    I keep up to date with Modern Healthcare, Healthcare IT, AHRA, and many other healthcare news outlets. If there is one thing that I can determine about the future, it’s that nobody is sure what will happen. Most people seem to believe that things will get worse before they get better, but just how much worse is a subject of great debate. And ...
    Posted to Confessions of a Clinical Engineer (Weblog) on December 26, 2012

  • Heart Healthy

    February is American Heart Month and we all need to sit up and take notice, especially women. Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Smokers, diabetics, and the obese are at higher risk. If you are having heart related symptoms and visit your doctor, any ...
    Posted to Juney’s World: Days in the Life of a CT Technologist (Weblog) on February 11, 2012

  • Get Informed

    I went to Florida last week to visit my family and friends. One of the days I was there I visited a friend of my mom's. After we got caught up she was eager to discuss her concerns with me about having a medical procedure the following day. She was scheduled to have a venous doppler ultrasound of her leg. She had been having leg pain and the ...
    Posted to Juney’s World: Days in the Life of a CT Technologist (Weblog) on January 29, 2012

  • New Blogger: Here to Help You

    By Patrick K. Lynch, CBET, CCE Hello.This is the first of what I hope are many opportunities I will have to talk with you. Let me use this first installment to tell you a little about me and why you may benefit from reading this blog. I live in Charlotte (actually just across the border in South Carolina) and work as a clinical engineer. I have ...
    Posted to Confessions of a Clinical Engineer (Weblog) on December 13, 2011

  • Monkey Business

    Are CT scans just for humans? According to news coming out of Topeka, Kansas the answer is no. One of the Borneo Orangutans, Daisy age 45, at the Topeka Zoo was experiencing trouble breathing and had mucus coming from her nose. She was recently taken to a local hospital and was evaluated by a cardiologist and an ENT specialist. ''Her ...
    Posted to Juney’s World: Days in the Life of a CT Technologist (Weblog) on December 1, 2011