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. 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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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 112

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 Stroke 40

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

A bedside cardiac ultrasound was normal. He was discharged and schedule for an outpatient echo which has not been done yet. This case was sent by Dr Avinash Krishnamurthy, a fine emergency medicine resident from Australia Cairns base hospital Case : An adolescent male had a mechanical fall and injured his left shoulder and arm.

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Chest Pain Congenital Heart Disease Article Congenital 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JULY 12, 2020

So I immediately left the room to get an ultrasound machine. While calling for some help and arranging to have her transported to our critical care zone, I got this quick ultrasound which confirmed my suspicion: This quick view was all I was able to obtain in the circumstances.

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