Emergency Radiology Course Materials

Welcome to the ACR Education Center Emergency Radiology Course.

In order to ensure you have a great experience, we have pulled together material to make sure you are adequately prepared to complete the requirements of this course. These materials will be available for review up to 24 months after the conclusion of your course. Any materials that you wish to reference should be downloaded or saved on your personal device.

Presentations

Imaging of the Itises

Traumatic Brain Injuries

Upper Extremity

CT of Uncommon Causes of the Acute Abdomen

Stroke Imaging

Orthopedic Hardware Imaging

MSK Emergencies - MRI Focused

Cervical Spine Trauma

Non-Traumatic Aortic Emergencies

Head and Neck Infections

Lower Extremity Trauma

Anatomy

Pitfalls of CT of Abdominal and Pelvic Trauma

Sample Case Reports

Complicated Pancreatitis

References - Abdominal Trauma

Boscak A, Shanmuganathan K. Splenic trauma: what is new? Radiol Clin North Am 2012; 50:105-122.
Stuhlfaut JW, Soto JA, Lucey BC, Ulrich A, Rathlev NK, Burke PA, Hirsch EF. Blunt abdominal trauma: performance of CT without oral contrast material. Radiology 2004; 233:689-694.
Anderson SW, Varghese JC, Lucey BC, Burke PA, Hirsch EF, Soto JA. Blunt splenic trauma: delayed-phase CT for differentiation of active hemorrhage from contained vascular injury in patients. Radiology 2007; 243:88-95.
Anderson SW, Soto JA, Lucey BC, Burke PA, Hirsch EF, Rhea JT. Blunt trauma: feasibility and clinical utility of pelvic CT angiography performed with 64-detector row CT. Radiology 2008; 246:410 419.
Nguyen D, Platon A, Shanmuganathan K, Mirvis SE, Becker CD, Poletti PA. Evaluation of a single-pass continuous whole-body 16-MDCT protocol for patients with polytrauma. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2009; 192:3-10.
Drasin TE , Anderson SW, Asandra A , Rhea JT, Soto JA. MDCT evaluation of blunt abdominal trauma: clinical significance of free intraperitoneal fluid in males with absence of identifiable injury. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2008; 191:1821–1826.