DAIC

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have granted the company’s Paradise Ultrasound Renal Denervation system a Transitional Pass-through (TPT) payment. The approval of TPT offers incremental reimbursement payments for outpatient procedures performed with ultrasound renal denervation for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.

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Dr. Anish Koka

JULY 23, 2023

A lower extremity arterial ultrasound revealed elevated velocities in the right proximal superficial femoral artery. A second opinion from another physician at another facility resulted in a normal ultrasound. 12.27.2016. Mr. Rosenberg meets Dr. Dormu. The itching turned out to have been a bad reaction to an insect bite.

Vascular Care 52

Vascular Care Outpatient Peripheral Arterial Disease Stent 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 2, 2025

Bedside cardiac ultrasound showed moderately decreased LV function. (And of course Ken's comments at the bottom) An elderly obese woman with cardiomyopathy, Left bundle branch block, and chronic hypercapnea presented hypoxic with altered mental status. She was intubated. CT of the chest showed no pulmonary embolism but bibasilar infiltrates.

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Tachycardia Cardiomyopathy Blog Bradycardia 116

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

APRIL 2, 2025

During the procedure, zero-ray septal puncture was guided by intracardiac ultrasound, and the GP was localized using the anatomical approach (AA) as the ablation target. In the patient with a syncopal premonitory aura, outpatient ECG and Holter monitoring showed no abnormalities.

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Ablation Ultrasound Outpatient Hospital 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 5, 2024

A formal ultrasound later showed reasonably good LV function, and so he later received carvedilol and diltiazem, Unfortunately, those led to hypotension at 80/40 with a HR 40. Several hours later, this was the effect: NT pro-BNP elevated to 7000 Furosemide was also given.

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Atrial Flutter Tachycardia Atrial Fibrillation AFIB 113

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The procedure was initiated via ultrasound‐guided right common femoral access. The patient was eventually discharged to short term acute rehabilitation and continues to follow up outpatient with the Stroke clinic.ConclusionOlder patients with ischemic stroke commonly have tortuous vessels or peripheral vascular disease.

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Anatomy Outpatient Ultrasound Strokes 40

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Cardiac Ultrasound may be a surprisingly easy way to help make the diagnosis Answer: pulmonary embolism. Now another, with ultrasound. When the ECG differential is between OMI on the one hand, and PE/type II OMI on the other, the absence of VT/VF strongly favors PE. Submitted by a Med Student, with Great Commentary on Bias!

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Cardiac Arrest Chest Pain Embolism Pulmonary 52