However, we could not find any evidence of infection in the blood, urine culture study, and radiologic exam.
Inclusion criteria for the patients in the polyvalent 24-bed ICU were as follows: (i) suspicion of nosocomial infection, defined as developing ≥48 hrs after ICU admission, in the lower respiratory tract, urinary tract, or blood (bacteremia), based on clinical symptoms and results of laboratory tests or radiologic exam.
Judicious ordering of radiologic exams as well as blood tests in the recent era of value-based care should make us pause to consider the risks and harms of our actions or inactions.
The catheters were used for several purposes such as administration of fluid and medications; in 40 patients, they were used also for power injection of contrast medium during radiologic exams.
Initially abnormal radiologic exams and serum tumour markers were obtained.
Overall, costs for general ward nursing, microbiology exams, clinical chemistry laboratory tests, medication drugs, and radiologic exams all differed between the aetiological groups.
High serum and cystic fluid CA 19 9 levels, together with loculated and septated cystic lesions on radiologic exams, should raise clinical suspicion of biliary cystadenoma and cystadenocarcinoma.
Direct medical costs include all related costs generated during the hospitalization of patients (drugs, laboratory and radiologic exams, inter-visits to other specialists, procedures, emergency and administrative expenses).
Radiologic exams (orthopantomography and CT [computed tomography] scan) showed a widespread zone of radiolucency, rarefaction of trabecular bone with a large osteo-necrotic lesion around the extraction site, which extended posteriorly to include the adjacent second molar, persistent extraction socket, and bone sequestra.
She works in Dallas as a diagnostic radiologist for Virtual Radiologic, a company in Eden Prairie, Minn., that enables doctors to read radiology exams from their home offices.
Then, the radiologic examination is the next most important procedure.
