You will be asked to fill out a short medical history questionnaire before your CT scan. Once completed, you may be asked to remove jewelry and metal objects, such as watches, necklaces, eyeglasses, ...

Erin Dwyer has been doing a lot of waiting. After a sonogram in December, she found out that she has a growth on her right kidney and had to wait months to see a specialist. Now she’s waiting for a CT ...

If a doctor suspects you may have a pulmonary embolism (PE), a CT scan is the gold standard of imaging techniques. This painless scan uses intravenous (IV) contrast, a type of dye, to help the doctor ...

Patients undergoing or about to undergo general surgical procedures can have better CT scan quality from intravenous contrast material with no increased risk for acute kidney injury, according to ...

Intravenous contrast media (typically iohexol or iodixanol) used in computed tomography (CT) does not appear to be associated with chronic kidney disease, dialysis, kidney transplant or acute kidney ...

HAVE TO RATION THIS SOLUTION, SOME ALREADY POSTPONING ALL BUT EMERGENCY SITUATIONS TTHA REQUIRE CT SCANS. JENNIFER C: A COVID SHORTAGE OF WHAT’S KNOWN AS "IODINIZED CONTRAST MEDIA" IS TIED TO THE ...

Point-of-care creatinine devices ABL800 FLEX, i‑STAT Alinity and StatSensor, which calculate estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), are recommended to assess kidney function to guide decisions ...

Hospitals across the U.S. are being forced to ration medical scans and procedures after a lockdown in Shanghai hit a plant that produces a widely used contrast dye. The dye, made by General Electric, ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - An Eastern Iowa family says a loved one diagnosed with cancer can’t receive the needed CT scan because of a global shortage of contrast dye. “I’ve never heard about this, ...

eGFR categories (ml/min/1.73 m 2): 1=0 to 29; 2=30 to 44, 3=5 to 59; 4=60 or higher. Abbreviation: CrI, credible interval. Additional analyses were done to assess the effect of removing studies with ...