Hydropic ear disease—Translation of imaging into clinical practice

Translating imaging biomarkers into clinical practice

Biomarkers are ‘objectively measured and evaluated indicators of normal biological processes, pathogenic processes or pharmacologic responses to a therapeutic intervention’ that identify increased or decreased risk of patient benefit or harm [1]. Imaging biomarkers (IB) are integral to cancer healthcare and research. In oncology, patient management relies heavily on using ordered categorical IB...

Incorporating prognostic imaging biomarkers into clinical practice

A prognostic imaging biomarker can be defined as an imaging characteristic that is objectively measurable and provides information on the likely outcome of the cancer disease in an untreated individual and should be distinguished from predictive imaging biomarkers and imaging markers of response. A range of tumour characteristics of potential prognostic value can be measured using a variety ima...

I-7: Introducing Blastocyst Culture and Transfer into Clinical Practice

Limitations of infrared ear temperature measurement in clinical practice.

PRINCIPLES Detection of elevated body temperature is critical in the early diagnosis of sepsis. Due to its convenience, infrared ear temperature measurement (IETM) has become the standard of care. Unfortunately, the limitations of this method are largely unexplored. OBJECTIVE To evaluate potential limitations of IETM, including the presence of cerumen on otoscopy, depth of penetration, side o...

Incorporating smartphones into clinical practice

With the widespread adoption of smartphones over the past decade, there has been increasing scrutiny over their role in medicine. Although health care providers and patients have long used mobile phones, these devices were initially limited technologically to basic voice transmission. Nowadays, even the most inexpensive models combine traditional functionality with powerful computing capability...