- Home
- Medical news & Guidelines
- Anesthesiology
- Cardiology and CTVS
- Critical Care
- Dentistry
- Dermatology
- Diabetes and Endocrinology
- ENT
- Gastroenterology
- Medicine
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Obstretics-Gynaecology
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedics
- Pediatrics-Neonatology
- Psychiatry
- Pulmonology
- Radiology
- Surgery
- Urology
- Laboratory Medicine
- Diet
- Nursing
- Paramedical
- Physiotherapy
- Health news
- Fact Check
- Bone Health Fact Check
- Brain Health Fact Check
- Cancer Related Fact Check
- Child Care Fact Check
- Dental and oral health fact check
- Diabetes and metabolic health fact check
- Diet and Nutrition Fact Check
- Eye and ENT Care Fact Check
- Fitness fact check
- Gut health fact check
- Heart health fact check
- Kidney health fact check
- Medical education fact check
- Men's health fact check
- Respiratory fact check
- Skin and hair care fact check
- Vaccine and Immunization fact check
- Women's health fact check
- AYUSH
- State News
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Andhra Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Assam
- Bihar
- Chandigarh
- Chattisgarh
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli
- Daman and Diu
- Delhi
- Goa
- Gujarat
- Haryana
- Himachal Pradesh
- Jammu & Kashmir
- Jharkhand
- Karnataka
- Kerala
- Ladakh
- Lakshadweep
- Madhya Pradesh
- Maharashtra
- Manipur
- Meghalaya
- Mizoram
- Nagaland
- Odisha
- Puducherry
- Punjab
- Rajasthan
- Sikkim
- Tamil Nadu
- Telangana
- Tripura
- Uttar Pradesh
- Uttrakhand
- West Bengal
- Medical Education
- Industry
Use of chest radiography through glass cuts hospital costs, produces quality radiographs: Study
Toronto, ON: The adoption of portable chest radiography through glass (TG-CXR) during the COVID-19 pandemic produced diagnostic-quality radiographs and reduced infection risk and hospital risk, finds a recent study.
The study is published in the Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences.
TG-CXR is a novel technique that is useful particularly during the OVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. Tian Yang (Darren) Liu, Department of Radiology, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, and colleagues aimed to understand the cost and benefit of adopting TG-CXR in quantifiable terms.
A team of two technologists typically performs portable or bedside radiographs. The use of TG-CXR method allows one technologist to stay outside of the patient room while operating the portable radiography machine. This results in reduced PPE use, decreasing the frequency of radiography machine sanitization and decreasing technologists' exposures to potentially infectious patients.
The cost of implementing the technique during the current COVID-19 pandemic was obtained from the department's operational database. The direct cost of routinely used PPE and sanitization materials and the cost of the time taken by the technologists to clean the machine was used to form a quantitative picture of the benefit associated with TG-CXR technique.
Key findings of the study include:
· Technologists were trained on the TG-CXR method during a 15-minute shift change briefing. This translated to a one-time cost of $424.88 USD.
· There was an average reduction of portable radiography machine downtime of 4 minutes and 48 seconds per study.
· The benefit of adopting the TG-CXR technique was $9.87 USD per patient imaged. This will result in a projected net cost savings of $51,451.84 USD per annum.
"Adoption of the TG-CXR technique during the COVID-19 pandemic involved minimal one-time cost, but is projected to result in a net-benefit of over $51,000 USD per annum in our emergency department," wrote the authors.
"We hope that our findings would encourage policy-makers to implement TG-CXR technique at their institutions when and where possible," they concluded.
Reference:
The study titled, "Cost Benefit Analysis of Portable Chest Radiography Through Glass: Initial Experience at a Tertiary Care Centre during COVID-19 pandemic," is published in the Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences.
DOI: https://www.jmirs.org/article/S1939-8654(21)00076-X/fulltext#
MSc. Biotechnology
Medha Baranwal joined Medical Dialogues as an Editor in 2018 for Speciality Medical Dialogues. She covers several medical specialties including Cardiac Sciences, Dentistry, Diabetes and Endo, Diagnostics, ENT, Gastroenterology, Neurosciences, and Radiology. She has completed her Bachelors in Biomedical Sciences from DU and then pursued Masters in Biotechnology from Amity University. She has a working experience of 5 years in the field of medical research writing, scientific writing, content writing, and content management. She can be contacted at  editorial@medicaldialogues.in. Contact no. 011-43720751
Dr Kamal Kant Kohli-MBBS, DTCD- a chest specialist with more than 30 years of practice and a flair for writing clinical articles, Dr Kamal Kant Kohli joined Medical Dialogues as a Chief Editor of Medical News. Besides writing articles, as an editor, he proofreads and verifies all the medical content published on Medical Dialogues including those coming from journals, studies,medical conferences,guidelines etc. Email: drkohli@medicaldialogues.in. Contact no. 011-43720751