From the November 2020 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
The portability of the solution according to KA Imaging is especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic, as it can reduce the risks associated with transporting a patient to a fixed radiology room. It also is priced less than a quarter of a fixed dual-energy system.
Reveal has currently shown promising results on lung cancer patients at Grand River Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario, where it is undergoing testing and expected to scan up to 30 patients. A new clinical trial has also begun this week in Toronto to assess its efficiency in providing early and reliable detection of pneumonia, including COVID-19.
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KA Imaging is a University of Waterloo spin-off that is based in Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario and showcased Reveal at the 2019 RSNA meeting in Chicago.
The end of the lead apron era?
In late September, Yale New Haven Health announced that it was joining a number of hospitals across the country that are
ending their practice of using lead aprons during X-ray exams.
The health system has so far stopped using the aprons at Yale New Haven Hospital and is ending the practice completely at Bridgeport Hospital. It plans to do the same at other Yale New Haven Health providers, including Greenwich Hospital.
"For at least a decade, the medical physics community and radiology community have realized that the pelvic shielding on patients was providing little, if any, benefit in helping decrease radiation dose to the gonads (reproductive organs)," Dr. Jay Pahade, radiology medical director for quality and safety at Yale New Haven Health, told HCB News. "Dose reduction technology has also played a role in changing this practice, as overall radiation doses for X-rays have fallen significantly over the last 50 years."
Yale New Haven Hospital believes the practice will eventually become obsolete, as it doesn't have much scientific merit to continue, but that it will take time for that to happen.
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