Radiologic technology
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Radiologic technologists encounter patients from a variety of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Reduced income and access to health care among minority and immigrant populations accounts for many health disparities. Enhancing cultural competency among health care providers and providing culturally appropriate services can improve communication, access to health care, and eventually health outcomes. Although awareness of a patient's ethnic or racial background can aid in screening and diagnosis, patient-centered care requires that everyone be seen as individuals first and members of a racial or ethnic minority second.
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Pain patterns associated with the facet and sacroiliac joints following lumbar total disc replacement correlate with biomechanical modeling observations, such as load transfer to the posterior spinal elements in total disc replacement with an artificial disc. When conventional treatment options are exhausted, spinal cord stimulation (SCS) offers clinically favorable outcomes to treat intractable pain. ⋯ SCS is a viable technique to control pain associated with artificial disc implant.
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Medical imaging plays a key role in solid organ donation and transplantation. In addition to confirming the clinical diagnosis of brain death, imaging examinations are used to assess potential organ donors and recipients, evaluate donated organs, and monitor transplantation outcomes. This article introduces the history, biology, ethics, and institutions of organ donation and transplantation medicine. The article also discusses current and emerging imaging applications in the transplantation field and the controversial role of neuroimaging to confirm clinically diagnosed brain death.
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To identify effective clinical instructor behaviors that lead to successful clinical experiences, to designate ineffective behaviors that contributed to poor clinical experiences and to identify any differences between instructor and student perceptions. ⋯ Although the students and instructors demonstrated different views, clinical instructors knew what the students perceive to be the most important behavioral characteristic of clinical instructors. This may be because New Jersey has strong clinical instructor requirements and because clinical instructors surveyed had extensive experience. However, because of the clinical instructor's importance, formal certification or training of clinical instructors could improve the clinical component of radiography programs.