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Spontaneous Large Volume Hemothorax Managed With A Small-Bore Chest Tube, Moiz Salahuddin, Samia Ayub

Department of Medicine

A 67-year-old male with metastatic lung cancer presented with acute shortness of breath and increasing oxygen requirements. He had a decreasing hemoglobin for which he required red blood cell transfusions. His chest x-ray showed near complete white-out of the left lung. Bedside ultrasound (Handheld Sonostar C4PL) showed a large pleural effusion with swirling echogenic material suggestive of plankton sign. The pleural effusion was aspirated and showed frank blood, after which a small-bore chest tube (SBCT) was inserted. A total of 3200ml of blood was drained with the SBCT. There was complete clearance of the pleural space, and no further blood …

Community Health Interventions To Reduce The Burden Of Radon-Related Lung Cancer, Benjamin Weaver

Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects

Exposure to radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States. One in seven homes in Vermont has elevated levels of radon, but most patients are unaware of radon as a risk factor for lung cancer or that radon testing and mitigation services are available to them. To promote increased testing and mitigation of radon we screened patients presenting to a Family Medicine practice in Vermont about whether they had had these services done in their home. We also developed a patient education resource for providers to give to patients who had more questions about radon …

Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction-V For Lung Nodule Analysis, Cherry Au, Zhenteng Li, Md, Eric Gingold, Md, Ethan Halpern, Md, Baskaran Sundaram, Md

Phase 1

Introduction: Low-dose CT in lung cancer screening has demonstrated benefits in select patients. As the traditional filtered back projection (FBP) technique is limited by poor image quality, adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction-V (ASIR-V) algorithm has been developed to achieve higher image quality with processing efficiency.

Objective: To investigate the impact of various CT scan parameters on the semi-automated measurement of lung nodules using a Computer Aided Detection (CAD) program.

Methods: This IRB-exempt phantom experiment was conducted with a CT scanner capable of ASIR-V algorithm. Eight lung nodules sized 5-12 mm, of solid or ground glass type, were placed inside a multipurpose …