More than Just Lines on a Map: Best Practices for U.S Bike Routes
To gad or not to gad
1. To Gad, Or Not To
Gad...
Eric M. Baumel, MD
Digital Imaging Diagnostics
2. CT Brain
No contrast for Bleed
C- for Sinuses, Facial Bones
C+ for Orbits (except trauma)
3. CT Chest
No Need for Without and With
C+ to Evaluate for Mass (esp. for
mediastinal and hilar adenopathy)
C+ for CTA Dissection, CTPA, CCTA
C- for Follow/Up of Nodules, ILD
4. CT Abdomen and
Pelvis
Renal Stone Protocol - No IV or Oral
Oral and IV for Just About Everything Else
(and you don’t need C- unless stones are
a consideration)
Remember Abdomen stops at Iliac Crest -Pelvis goes to Symphysis