Ultrasound First -- Renal Colic Detection
Renal colic affects nearly 1.2 million people each year and accounts for approximately 1 percent of hospital admissions.1 Diagnosing kidney stones in patients who present with renal colic is often performed with computed tomography (CT) and, less commonly, with intravenous urography (IVU).2 While CT and IVU are accurate diagnostic tests and define clearly the size, shape, and position of uric acid stones, they also present a number of factors that would discourage use,3 including the potential risks of exposing patients to repeated doses of ionizing radiation. In fact, the Joint…
What if we could decrease the need for CVC placements in the ER?
"This data is pivotal for emergency medicine and the overall impact it can have on patient safety
and cost reductions in the hospital."
— Bon Ku, MD, MPP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Study finds that ultrasound-guided peripheral IV’s are a viable alternative to high-risk CVCs in 85% of Patients
More than five million central venous catheter (CVC) lines are placed in U.S. hospitals each year, making it one of the most common invasive emergency room procedures.1 CVC placement involves the insertion of a large catheter into a patient’s major vessel. It is often used for those who have poor…
What if you could place central lines in the first try?
In his own words: Hear one physician share his AxoTrack experience.
I feel confidence in knowing where the tip of that needle is and I think that is a big deal. AxoTrack clearly contributes to the accuracy of the procedure; I think that’s what it brings to the game.
--Mark P. Mercier, MD, Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine, Beaufort Memorial Hospital
The results are in—AxoTrack helps set the bar for first-pass success rates
AxoTrack® Needle Guidance Technology, the "point-and-shoot" simple option for central venous catheterization (CVC), has achieved a 97% first-pass success…
White Memorial Medical Centre Utilises Sonosite's Central Line Management Programme
Striving for Excellence at White Memorial Medical CentreWhite Memorial Medical Centre, a member of the Adventist Health System and a 353-bed hospital in downtown Los Angeles, was concerned about its rates of iatrogenic pneumothoraces (IP) and central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) and set out to improve the situation. According to Mara Bryant, White Memorial's Senior Vice President for Organisational Excellence. With this goal in mind, White Memorial Medical Centre implemented the Sonosite Central Line Management Training Programme, which ran from January 2010 through August…
What if you could eliminate iatrogenic pneumothorax?
Michael Shabot, MD, of Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, discusses iatrogenic pneumothorax and central line placement safety.
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System attained zero iatrogenic pneumothorax complications in multiple hospitals for a full year.The Healthcare System accomplished this incredible feat in several of its prestigious hospitals, including Memorial Hermann Southeast, Memorial Hermann Sugar Land, Children’s Memorial Hermann, Memorial Hermann Katy, Memorial Hermann Northeast, Memorial Hermann Northwest, as well as eight community hospital emergency departments across its…
What if you could detect and prevent diseases before they showed symptoms?
Bridging the Gap to Create Continuity of Care
Life Line Screening is known throughout the nation as the leading provider of community-based preventive health screening services. The company brings affordable screenings to the public through partnerships with leading hospitals, civic organizations, and other groups committed to quality health care – like Sonosite. Sharing a vision to make disease identification and prevention accessible to all, Sonosite and Life Line Screening collaborate to promote widespread participation in early screenings. Hospitals and vascular centers partner with…
Sonosite interviews Dr. David Williams for the Code Black Movie release
Meet Dr. David Williams from Code Black Movie
Dr. David Williams is an assistant professor of clinical emergency medicine at LA County USC Medical Center. He works within the Division of International and Wilderness Emergency Medicine and has been practicing at LA County USC since 2003.
"LA County on its own represents one of our nation's big county hospitals... taking care of the poorest of the poor patients in our country, and the majority of them being the working poor."
Dr. David Williams smiles as he compares LA County Hospital to a dirty piece of gum stuck to his shoe: "…
Sonosite Interviews Dr. Andrew Eads for Code Black Movie release
Andrew Eads is currently a third year Emergency Medicine Resident Physician at LA County and USC Hospital. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley (BS Chemistry) and received his Masters in Public Health from UCLA. He attended the University of California Irvine School of Medicine. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Melissa, with whom he is expecting his first child later this year. "I was really proud of...the story that it tells about our hospital, about its mission, about the patients and what they go through, and the importance of county hospitals in general." He explains…
Sonosite Goes to Brazil!
Sonosite’s International Symposium on Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Brazil was a huge success -- two of the biggest events in Sonosite history!
There were over 450 total registrants for both Sāo Paulo and Rio De Janeiro. 150 for São Paulo and 300 attendees for Rio De Janeiro’s symposium. The 2nd half of the symposium consisted of three educational workshops that the participants could choose from.
Topics for each workshop varied due to the attendee list and venue size for each workshop. Each workshop consisted of a local physician presentation followed by two hours…
The Intelligent Hospital with Marco Daoura, Fujifilm Sonosite, at HIMSS 2014
The intelligent hospital was setup to help the industry keep track of rapidly advancing medical technology from RFID tracking to Sonosite's ultrasound system's being featured in the Intelligent Hospital ICU experience. Visit intelligenthospital.org for more information.
Glimpse: A New Talk Show Series Focused on Trends and Thought Leadership in Visual Medicine
About Glimpse
Glimpse was introduced in May 2014 as a blog-based video channel focusing on the field of visual medicine and recent progress in the field. The show is produced by Sonosite FUJIFILM, Inc. and hosted by John Nosta, DIGITAL HEALTH philosopher, strategist & advocate. The project is headed by Luke Baldwin of Sonosite.
The goal of the project is to provide the public and especially medical providers with knowledge of recent insights into visual medicine, especially point-of-care ultrasound. In fact, rather than promote a particular brand or device, the show is dedicated…
The Sonosite Solution for Safer Central Venous Catheter Insertion
The Sonosite Solution provides a ready-made, but highly modifiable and scalable clinical pathway to reduce CVC-insertion complications through the use of point-of-care ultrasound.The Sonosite Solution for Safer Central Venous Catheter Insertion includes a guidebook and resource centre that provides healthcare professionals with practise guidelines, procedure protocols, key metrics for benchmark success, educational videos and more. Most importantly, a team of Solutions Advisors support the programme and help clinicians and administrators at participating institutions navigate through the…
Sonosite interviews Dr. David Pomeranz for the Code Black Movie release
Meet Dr. David Pomeranz from Code Black Movie
Born and raised in Reno, NV, Dave Pomeranz is currently a third-year Emergency Medicine Resident Physician at LA County and USC. He attended Cornell University and studied Civil and Environmental Engineering and subsequently lived in New York City, Colorado, New Zealand, and back to Reno. He eventually attended the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, where he still currently resides. "Emergency physicians play a huge role. And if the apocalypse hit, we'd have a decent skillset."…
Sonosite Interviews Dr. Billy Mallon for the Code Black movie release
Meet Dr. Billy Mallon from Code Black MovieBilly Mallon has been a member of the Emergency Medicine faculty at LAC+USC Medical Centre for over 2 decades, including 10 years as the Emergency Medicine Residency Director. As an educator he has won numerous teaching awards locally and nationally for his teaching style which is direct and unfiltered. He is a past president of the California Chapter of ACEP, a Fulbright Senior Scholar (to Iceland), an AOA Faculty Inductee, and has lectured in over 20 countries on a wide variety of EM topics.Dr. Mallon has been intimately…
Sonosite interviews Dr. Clare Roepke for the Code Black movie release
Meet Dr. Clare Roepke from Code Black Movie
Dr. Clare Roepke is a third year emergency medicine resident at LA County USC Medical Center. She will take over as Education Chief and complete her final year of training in 2015.
"...that raw emotion, that intensity, and that kind of care on a real firsthand, real basis with patients... It drew me in."
Dr. Clare Roepke shares with Sonosite her experience with Ryan McGarry, producer of Code Black movie, who was also her mentor and a senior in her residency. He was to her "a teacher, and a role model". She thus has an intimate look…
The Value of Visualization
What are the benefits of ultrasound?
Quality of Care:
Quality matters to the entire healthcare service. Discover how we can help you improve your leapfrog scores by leaps and bounds. Watch a video on how White Memorial did it.
Efficiency:
Save time, energy, and even personnel with bedside ultrasound. See the full article on how Greenville Health System created a cost saving care pathway for shoulder injury.
Patient Safety:
Learn how to avoid hospital acquired infections (HAI’s) through the use of point-of-care ultrasound. See how Memorial Hermann Health Systems achieved zero iatrogenic…
Sonosite Interviews Dr. Todd Larsen from Code Black Movie
Dr. Todd Larsen is an assistant medical director at St. John's Regional Medical Centre and St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospital in Ventura County. He has worked there since graduating from the Emergency Medicine residency at LAC-USC in 2009. His focus is on Pre-hospital Care, Education, and Quality Assurance. "In the midst of the chaos...I got my education that allowed me to practise medicine how I do." Sonosite interviews Dr. Todd Larsen from Code Black Movie, whose role in the film is portrayed as the calm, collected, senior resident. Dr. Larsen shares that in fact the…
Sonosite interviews Dr. Ed Newton from Code Black Movie
Edward Newton, MD grew up in Montreal, Canada. He has undergraduate degrees in History (Loyola College), Microbiology (UBC) and Medicine (McGill University). He trained in Emergency Medicine at the LAC + USC Medical Centre and completed a Fellowship in Medical Toxicology from 1982-1985. He then practised at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal and returned as the Emergency Medicine Residency Training Director at LAC + USC Medical Centre from 1988 to 1995. He became Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine in 1995 and Chair of the Department from 2002-2012. He currently is working…
Sonosite interviews Luis Enriquez, RN, for Code Black Movie
Meet Luis Enriquez of Code Black Movie
Luis Enriquez is a twenty-seven-year veteran Emergency Trauma Nurse at LA County USC Trauma Center. In addition to Clinical practice he serves as an Adjunct Clinical Instructor and lecturer. He is a graduate of LA County School of Nursing and California State Polytechnic University (BS Chemistry). Luis also is part of the Volunteer faculty with Good Samaritan Medical Ministry and has taught Emergency Nursing in Vietnam for the past three years. He has two grown children, Laura and Michael, with his wife Evelyn.
Virtually the only nurse to be…
The Morocco Mobile Ultrasound Patrol
Morocco Trial Shows Remote Ultrasound Can Expand Access and Improve Maternal Care.In the rural areas of Morocco, previously pregnant women had to wait up to two weeks to obtain the results of a critical obstetric ultrasound. Now a new trial shows that local sonography with remote interpretation can reduce turn around time down to 24 hours while decreasing cost from $80 to $2 per study.