...“In-Depth Mobile Radiology” - A Marketing Plan Background IN-DEPTH MOBILE RADIOLOGY is a new medical staffing and mobile diagnostic company that caters to medical facilities that are in need of our services. Our company provides a couple of types of service who are in need of diagnostic machines or technologists. The first type of service is acquiring trailer truck based mobile MRI or CT scanner machines or providing ultrasound and mobile x-ray machines. The market is open for medical facilities, nursing homes or rehabilitation centers that do not have their own diagnostic equipment and instead of purchasing their own machine that cost so much our company can offer our services to bring our mobile machines into their facilities parked outside gets all their procedures done for the cheapest price possible. The second type of service is staffing for surgical centers or medical facilities providing technologists that would operate the advanced fluoroscopic x-rays, CT scans, MRI, ultrasound, bone density and other medical diagnostic equipment that needs a certification to operate. Most medical facilities have procedures daily but not all of their cases need x-ray, so it would be best for them to hire a temp rather than have a regular tech. IN-DEPTH MOBILE RADIOLOGY will base its main facility in the area of Palm Springs and Indio California by the 10 freeway for easier access to walk in clients. After surveying the area of southern California, we found that the Palm Springs...
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...Running head: ETHICAL ISSUES AS A RADIOLOGY 1 Ethical Issues in Radiology Interview Paper Annelia Cyril Adventist University of Health Sciences 2 Abstract As a health care professionals we live through our career with sincere dedication to our patients. Ethics encompasses a variety of issues that all medical professionals, including medical imaging technologists must ultimately tackle. When considering ethics, medical imaging professionals need to take into account their responsibilities to patients, colleagues, employers, the imaging profession, and themselves. This interview will review these responsibilities with respect to medical imaging and the challenges that imaging technologists may face in approaching their work from the perspective of ethics. The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) has developed a Standard of Ethics in which radiologic technologists have to abide by. With the continual invention and improvement of lifesaving medical technology also comes the burden of ethical decision making. Radiologists today face more ethical issues than meet the eye. ...
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...consent and who is responsible for obtaining the informed consent Informed consent is a legal protection of a patient's authorization or agreement to undergo a specific medical intervention. It is the responsibility of the attending licensed healthcare professionals- physicians and nurses- to obtain and witness the patient’s signature. The informed consent includes: • The patient’s diagnosis • The patient’s prognosis • The proposed treatment • The risks and benefits associated with the proposed treatment • Any alternative treatments • The risks and benefits of the alternatives • The risks of forgoing treatment, should the patient refuse 2. Describe and define what occurs in each of the following sections of the radiology department. a) Mammography A mammogram is a low-dose x-ray exam of the breasts to look for changes that are not normal, it is used to detect benign and malignant...
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...Dave Jackson S. Thompson English I October 9, 2012 Radiology and other common medical imaging procedures Radiology is a very interesting subject and has a long history. X-Rays were discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen in 1895. X-rays were first produced in a vacuum tube where electronics travelled at the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second. Electromagnetic rays have high energy and very short wavelengths, which are not visible to the human eye. In 1913, an American radiologist named Gustav Bucky made the very first radiographic grid. With one-hundred radiologists per million Americans, approximately eighty-percent of radiologists are men. Full-time radiologists average a fifty-hour work week. The top four areas of radiology consist of: body cross/abdomen imaging, interventional/vascular imaging, breast imaging/women’s imaging, and neuroradiology. Before your examination, a radiographer will explain the procedure to you and answer any questions you may have. A Radiologic Technologist is a skilled professional with specialized education of anatomy, radiation protection, patient care, radiation exposure, and positioning. It is part of their duty to determine how much radiation is necessary to produce a diagnostic image. Radiographic testing is a non-destructive testing that uses X-rays and/or Gamma-rays for detecting internal imperfections and for detecting corrosion. Over the years cardiac imaging has undergone revolutionary development during recent decades...
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...Demand Verses Supply Paper HCS/552 – Health Care Economics March 4, 2013 James Brown Demand Verses Supply Paper Demand of health care services within the health care industry will inherently continue to rise as American society ages. Technological advances in diagnostics and treatment provide individuals the opportunity to seek quality care that can prolong health and wellness for those seeking treatments. The key for the health care industry is to attempt to meet the demand with an adequate supply of quality services that enhance the health and well-being of those seeking care. The value of a new medical technology is determined by supply and demand (Getzen, 2007). Diagnostic radiology is a prime example of the value being determined by both supply and demand. As radiologic imaging advanced from two dimensional x-ray images to three dimensional ultrasound images, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and Computed tomography (CT) providing better image quality and increased accuracy of diagnoses, the demand for these services rose. Statistics show that from 1996 to 2006 the frequency of radiology imaging increased nearly 60%, from 61 million studies to 99 million (Klein, 2008). This significant increase in use is directly related to enhance image quality used for diagnosis. This figure will continue to rise as more baby-boomers use these services to diagnose potential health issues that can be determined through radiologic imaging. This paper will discuss the demand...
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...My Future Career By: Destiny Seitz 15 Year Plan…….. • • • • • 2015-2016: Graduate from High School. 2017-2018: Finish getting degree Graduate from College. 2019: Start my career 2020-2025: Stay at a lower level in my degree 2026-2029: Try to get a higher level in my degree Timeline • • • • • • September 26, have step 1-2 done. October 3, have steps 3-4 done. October 17, have steps 5-6 done. October 24, have steps 7-8 done. October 31, make sure project is complete. November 7, go back through project to make sure everything is in there. Roadblocks Priority Actions/Solutions Making bad grades Studying harder, getting Focusing and staying good nights rest, eating on top of school work. a healthy breakfast, and tutoring if needed Loss of a loved one Time for grieving. Talk to Keeping in contact with professors. professors Questions Pay? Who has a higher pay? Growth? Admission Requirements? • • • • Pay? The annual median salary for ultrasound technologists is $66,410 with a range of $45,840 to $92,070 according to the Labor Statistics of May 2013 Who has a higher pay? Technologists that work in a hospital tend to get a higher pay than technologists that work in other setting. Growth? The employment growth from 2010-2013 is 46 percent. What they do? They operate special imaging equipment to create images or conduct tests. These images and test results help physicians to diagnose medical conditions. Some technologists...
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...self-referrals, mostly for payment by Medicare patients; it is also known as “the self-referral law.” “The law is named for United States Congressman Pete Stark, who sponsored the initial bill (“STARK LAW,” n.d., para. 1). The first phase became effective on January 1, 1992 (Taromina, 2013, p. 83). It prohibited a physician from referring a patient to a clinical laboratory with which they, or an immediate family member, had a financial relationship. The second phase became effective on January 4, 2001 (Taromina, 2013, p. 83). Stark II applied the already-enacted laws to Medicare and Medicaid patients, and extended the restrictions to include additional designated health services (DHS): physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, radiology services, radiation therapy, durable medical equipment and supplies, parenteral and enteral nutrients, equipment, and supplies, prosthetics, orthotics, and prosthetic devices and supplies, home health services, outpatient prescription drugs, inpatient and outpatient hospital services, and clinical laboratory services (Burgess, n.d., para 8). It also set guidelines for physician recruitment and retention (Reynolds, 2004). Phase II states that “any DHS performed as a result of a prohibited referral cannot be billed to any payer, including the patient” (Chase, 2001, para. 3). In addition, any physician or entity that violates Stark II may be subject to significant civil...
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...without cutting inside the human body, gets images of the human body through scanning with the use of magnets and radio waves to create images and could serve as a valuable addition to diagnostic medicine. The patient lies on a patient table then slides into the cylinder and placed in a magnetic field gradient. When operated, protons are tiny particles that are present in water molecules in the body and protons aligned in parallel to the powerful magnetic field. Radio waves are transmitted in pulses and these protons are echoed along the body. When the MRI machine is scanning, the MRI scanner receives the echoes and it will construct a clear and detailed image of soft tissues of the body to a computer that creates an image based on the radio signals emitted from the body. The whole procedure can take 20-40 minutes or can take even longer. The scanner is very loud, so patient will be required to use earplugs or headphones to protect their ears from the noise. Magnetic Resonance Imaging is important because MRI scan can investigate or diagnose conditions that affect soft tissues such as abnormal tissue like tumours, joint or spinal injuries or diseases, and soft tissue injuries or diseases of internal organ like brain or heart. In addition, MRI is also important because it can provide important diagnostic information that cannot be obtained by other imaging techniques. Magnetic Resonance Imaging is very useful particularly for identifying bone ad joint damage, evaluating blood vessels...
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...Introduction X rays have been used in the healing arts immediately after their discovery. However, it was soon recognized that the radiation could cause harmful effects and henceforth one has never read the word ‘radiation’ in a newspaper or a magazine without the modifier ‘dangerous’, ‘deadly’ or ‘harmful’. Ever since its fatality was known, a great deal of effort has been devoted to developing equipment, techniques and procedures to control radiation levels and hence reduce unnecessary radiation exposure to radiation workers and the public. Because we are unable to conduct controlled studies, most of what we know about the harmful effects ionizing radiation has been gathered from health consequences results from its uses and its historical events such as Chernobyl, Nevada Test Site and the most recent Fukushima incident. Providing radiation protection for workers and the public is the practice of health physics. Health physicists delve into designing equipment, calculating and constructing barriers, and developing administrative protocols to maintain radiation exposures (Bushong, 2001). Based on the knowledge of the adverse effects of radiation to the human body, on would practice the principle of as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA). One would practice the former principle through the use of cardinal principles which includes time, distance and shielding. Using these as foundation, radiation protection is further enhanced through radiation protection features that...
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...Diagnostic Imaging Modalities Skeletal metastases can be evaluated by four clinical imaging modalities: plain film radiography, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and skeletal scintigraphy. Plain Film Radiography Plain film radiographs are commonly used to evaluate symptomatic areas and to confirm findings seen with other imaging modalities. Because of its poor sensitivity (ie, 44% to 50% less sensitive than scintigraphy in detecting breast cancer metastases[3]), it is generally not used as a screening method.[3–5] Considerable bone destruction must be present before a bone metastasis is evident radiographically. An estimated 30% to 75% reduction in bone density is required for a lesion to be visualized on radiographs.[1] Moreover, the radiographic bone survey remains useful in the event of a "skeletal emergency," such as an impending pathological fracture, particularly of weight-bearing bones (Fig 2A). Radiography is invaluable for assessing the extent of cortical compromise and the risk of pathological fracture in tubular bones.[6] For example, lytic lesions that destroy 50% or more of the diaphyseal cortex can result in a 60% to 90% reduction in bone strength, significantly increasing the risk of fracture.[6] Radiographs are recommended for patients with symptoms of pain or tenderness that might be related to a weight-bearing bone (eg, femur or tibia).[6] The radiographic bone survey, however, remains important in staging of multiple myeloma due...
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...Running Head: RADIOLOGY TECHNOLOGISTS ROLE Radiology Technologists Role in Quality Patient Care and Safety Keiser University Abstract I never really sat down and realized how important patient care really was going to be to my job. I always just thought of it as just taking pictures of the bones. Come to find out there really is a whole lot more to it than what I thought. Quality patient care is very important from the way that we communicate with the patient all the way to the time they go home and or are released from the hospital or care. There are several protocols and procedures that we are required to follow and abide by. These are just done to ensure that neither the patient nor we get hurt; and that everything is done in a safe manner. The patient’s life kind of still lies in your hands sometimes. Radiology Technologists Role in Quality Patient Care and Safety How would you feel if the Radiology Technologists that was taking care of you didn’t know what they were doing? I know that I wouldn’t feel comfortable and would probably ask to have someone else take care of me. Which as a patient we have that right; but there are roles and guidelines that the Radiology Technologists have the duty to follow as well. The American Society of Radiologic Technologists has made a Code of Ethics that should be followed. These Code of Ethics...
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...Nuclear Medicine Radioactive tracers is the form of radiation they use within the human body when doing procedures such as CAT, MIBG, MRI, PET, and Gallium scans. Patients who undergo radioactive procedures are first given a small amount of radioisotope one of two ways oral or by injection. This radioisotope is pertinent to the procedure because it enhances the visualization on vascular structures and organs. The preparation is varies upon ordering physician however are relatively similar in protocol. For vascular patients it is recommended that the patient not have any caffeinated beverages 12 hours prior to the procedure and nothing to eat at least 4 hours before a procedure. Nuclear Vascular stress tests take approximately 3 hours to complete. All patients should wear comfortable lose fitting clothing and tennis shoes for comfort ability due to the nature of the testing which is done on a treadmill. The treadmill however, does not always provide enough information pertaining to the heart and hearts circulation. Nuclear stress tests then become the next phase which includes putting an IV into the arm and injecting a dose of radioisotope. The radiologist will then have you wait approximately 30 minutes and then take you down for pictures of your heart. After this is done the patient will begin walking on the treadmill and right before the procedure is over the radiologist will inject the patient again with radioisotope and then eat. After about a half...
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...A STUDY ON RADIATION PROTECTION AMONG PATIENTS AND STAFF IN THE IMAGING DEPARTMENT AT KENYATTA NATIONAL HOSPITAL. RESEARCH DONE BY: DENIS NOVENA MUNG’AHU COLLEGE NUMBER: D/MIS/10007/191 RESEARCH PROPOSAL SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL IMAGING SCIENCES-NYERI CAMPUS IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE STUDY. JANUARY 2013 KENYA MEDICAL TRAINING COLLEGE P.O BOX 466 NYERI. Contents DECLARATION 1 DEDICATION 3 List of abbreviation 4 Operational definition 5 Chapter 1 6 1.0 Introduction 6 1.1 Broad objective 6 1.2 Specific Objectives 6 1.3 Problem Statement 6 1.4 Research Question 7 1.6 Study Justification 8 Chapter 2 9 Literature review 9 2.0: Introduction 9 2.1: Practice of radiation protection principles by the radiographers 10 2.1.1: Beam collimation by the radiographer 10 2.2.2: Beam Limiting Devices 11 2.2.2: Technique Selection 12 2.2.3: Patient identification 12 2.2: The practice of the radiation protection principles 13 The principle of limiting time 13 2.2.2 The principle of distance 14 2.2.3 The principle of applying shielding 15 2.3 To determine patients' level of knowledge 15 2.4 Conclusion 16 Chapter 3 16 Methodology 16 3.0 Background information 16 3.1 Position and size 16 3.2 Topography, climate and temperature 17 3.3 Population 17 3.5 Design 18 3.6 Study area 18 3.7 Sampling size determination 18 3.8 Ethical consideration 19 CHAPTER 4 19 APPENDIX I...
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...multi-specialty, community based clinic that is a division of the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas. Correspondence concerning this report should be addressed to Karen Glave, RT, Department of Radiology, UT Cinco Ranch Health Center, 23923 Cinco Ranch Blvd, Katy, Texas 77494. E-mail: karen.glave@uth.tmc.edu Abstract During my 20 years of imaging in the radiology field, I have been questioned by patients about the dangers of radiation exposure daily. I often state that unlike other medical trials we are unable to intentionally test the long term effects of these procedures. To take a group of people and irradiate them, follow them throughout their lives. That type of study would be never-ending and difficult to follow. Our history lessons teach about the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945 and the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion in Ukraine. However those events do not expose human beings to the same ionizing radiation that is used in the medical x-rays of today. I would like to put these risks into perspective. That the benefit of the information we receive from a test far outweighs the risk to the patient. My ultimate goal is to arm the patient with enough information to make a diagnostic testing decision without fear or generalizations. Radiation Exposure During the average human’s lifetime they will have the need for a radiation imaging study to diagnose or confirm a diagnosis. When this occurs, the...
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...Radiology vs. Medical Examiner Radiologist Two different potential careers that I’m interested in are Radiologic Technologists and a Medical Examiner. I will cover the educational requirements, job responsibilities, pay scale, and the job demand for each of my potential careers. The educational requirements for a Radiologic Technologist include formal training programs in radiography that lead to a certificate, an associate’s degree, or a bachelor’s degree. Associate’s degree programs are the most common. Certificate programs typically last 6 to 12 months. Typical programs include both classroom training and clinical training. Coursework includes anatomy, pathology, patient care, radiation physics and protection, and image evaluation. The Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT) accredits educational and training programs in radiography. Completing an accredited program is required for licensure in some states. High school students who are interested in radiologic technology should take courses that focus on science and math. Suggested courses include anatomy, biology, chemistry, physiology, mathematics, and physics. Radiologic technologists must be licensed or certified in most states; requirements vary by state. To be licensed in most states, radiologic technologists must have graduated from an accredited program and must pass a certification exam from the state or from The American Registry of Radiologic Technologist (ARRT). To keep their...
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