First Ever European Ultrafest: Maribor, Slovenia
Last Year UCI, held the first ever Sonosite supported Ultrafest. Then it expanded to Stanford and TJU with resounding success. Last weekend, it went to Europe with the first Ultrafest in Maribor, Slovenia. Below is an excerpt from an email we received about the event:
Students working with live models and the Sonosite NanoMaxx
Dear all;
It is with great pleasure that I am writing to briefly summarize the first ever European Ultrafest in Maribor, Slovenia.
Upon opening online registration, the response was absolutely amazing - more than 200 medical students applied in…
Nomination for GSMA: Best Mobile Innovation for Health
"FUJIFILM Sonosite Inc. is honored to share the GSMA Best Mobile Innovation for Health nomination with Trice Imaging and congratulates both teams for working together and championing a successful trial with support from Qualcomm Wireless Reach and Sony. 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 this trial shows that local sonography with remote interpretation can make a big difference in the lives of many who live in rural areas. Our goal in supporting such a well-managed trial…
Game Day Ultrasound
Courtesy of FUJIFILM Sonosite ANZ
The Fremantle Dockers Football team have been using on-field Ultrasound as a way to visualize and diagnose soft tissue injuries with their players. The Sonosite Edge portable Ultrasound system provides beautiful images of the ribs and soft tissues for "match-day" diagnosis. This information allows the physician and coach to make an informed decision of whether the player should be sent back out in the field. The needle guided visualization allows the needle to be correctly placed and therefore, reduces complications.
Grateful Dad Donates a Sonosite Edge
Grateful Dad Donates a Sonosite Edge to the Ulss 21 Hospital Legnago, Department of Pediatrics, Italy
Cutting-edge tools for 43 thousand euro: an ultrasound for heart disease but also an high flow oxygenator and one for babies
A gift for a unique gift. This is what the dad must have thought when, in recent days, he gave the Department of Pediatrics of the hospital Legnago, Italy 43 000 euro, worth of new equipment, in gratitude for them having taken care of his daughter.
Thankful to the pediatric department, the father of Verona, who wishes to remain anonymous, has donated three new…
Maria's Baby
Part 5 of our compelling 6 part series.
Maria is pregnant, a few days overdue with her baby in a dangerous, transverse position. Out here in this remote location, when to transport is the most difficult question. Dr. Jordan sees the complications ahead, live on screen with hand-carried ultrasound. Women in these communities almost always have their babies at home and infant mortality is high. The mother and grandmother's anxiety is compounded by the practical and financial difficulties in getting to a hospital far away.
Complications lie ahead for pregnant mother Maria. Dr. Jordan, a…
Breaking the Barriers
Part 6 of our compelling 6 part series.
Listless and sleepy, the three week old baby is making mother anxious. At the follow up clinic it’s low weight is also concerning physicians.
Three weeks old and weighing only 2.8 kgs the baby is too light. There are other concerns: the child is listless and feeding erratically. In remote Norteno, Panama ‘follow-up’ clinics are crucial in improving healthcare. Hand-carried ultrasound brings immediate diagnosis to this anxious mother’s child.
Sign up here to watch all six episodes and download Dr. Ben LaBrot's 10 tips for using portable ultrasound…
Global Health Experience - Honduras
Here at Sonosite we have a pool of equipment that we loan for global health missions in under-served areas. We were fortunate to be able to support Dr Braehler's recent mission to Honduras. This is what he had to say:"We came back from our Operation Rainbow trip to Comayagua/ Honduras last Sunday and it was an amazing experience.We were able to do surgery for 43 patients in four days and almost all of them got at least one nerve block, quite a few got two for lower extremity surgeries. We did a total of 50+ blocks, all of them ultrasound guided and they all worked very well. The surgeons were…
Global Health Experience, Macedonia
At Sonosite we are very fortunate to know a large group of doctors and care workers who are invested in global public health. Those rare people that go to remote locations to treat patients and train the local healthcare workers rely on Sonosite to provide them with the ultrasound equipment necessary. Through charities, they are often able to provide ultrasound equipment to be left at the location and used by the newly trained staff. One of these individuals is Dr Randall Malchow who wrote this summary of his experience in Macedonia:
Dr Randall Malchow’s Experience in…
Deep Needle Procedures: Abstract, Interview and Article
Promoting patient safety and increasing health care quality have dominated the health care landscape during the last 15 years. Health care regulators and payers are now tying patient safety outcomes and best practices to hospital reimbursement. Many health care leaders are searching for new technologies that not only make health care for patients safer but also reduce overall health care costs. New advances in ultrasonography have made this technology available to health care providers at the patient's bedside. Point-of-care ultrasound assistance now aids providers with real-time diagnosis…
Global Health: Dr. Wes Wallace - La Moskitia, Honduras
La Mosquitia has the largest wilderness area in Central America, consisting of mangrove swamps, lagoons, rivers, savannas and tropical rain forests. Manatees, tapirs and jaguars all still thrive here – they have learnt to be circumspect around man, and they may not be easy to spot. Crocodiles can be seen in the waters.
Access to healthcare is made difficult due to geographic make-up of the region. There are few healthcare structures in existence, and those that do exist are often deprived of a doctor, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals. By virtue of geography and socio-…
Global Health: Kiwi Doctors use ultrasound to help save boy in rural Indonesia
Returning to try and save Thomas: A 5 year old boy in the final stages of heart failure in Indonesia.
To watch the news video report click here: http://tvnz.co.nz/seven-sharp/he-could-walk-indonesian-child-s-miracle-turnaround-after-kiwi-doctors-intervene-video-6309161
Dr Tom Mulholland is the Senior Medical Officer, Department of Emergency Medicine, Auckland City Hospital. He is also an Honorary Lecturer in Psychological Medicine, University of Auckland
Taken from the mission page of www.drtomonamission.com
Dr Caroline Meadows and I are…
Improving Safety and Quality with Best Practices: Focus on Central Venous Access
2014-05-15T04:00:00Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare Diku Mandavia, MD, FACEP, FRCPC, Chief Medical Officer at Sonosite, and clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Southern CaliforniaDr. Mandavia points out that device-associated infections and surgical site infections together account for nearly half of all hospital acquired infections, with infections from central-line placement having reported between 12% and 25% mortality rates. Hospitals where physician added the use of ultrasound to guide placement of central lines such as Cedars-Sinai…
Our Journey to Zero Patient Harm
Group Practice JournalMichael Shabot, M.D. FACS, FCCM, FACMI, is chief medical officer, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Houston and Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics and the University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston.
Michael Warneke, M.D. is medical director of quality, Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital.The authors stress the safety benefits of ultrasound visualization are overwhelming to the extent that in 2001 AHRQ identified ultrasound-guided central venous access as an important safety practice meriting widespread use, and…
Ultrasound Guidance at the Point of Care
March 21, 2011Executive InsightBy Diku Mandavia, MD, FACEP, FRCPC
Despite a few recent volleys from radiologists in their longstanding turf war with non-radiologists, within the wider healthcare community the focus has shifted to ecient, appropriate use of ultrasound at the point of care across medical specialties. Robust evidence from multiple studies demonstrates that using this technology at the patient's bedside delivers proven value by improving patient care and safety at a fraction of the cost of such advanced imaging technologies as computed tomography and magnetic resonance…
CT Dose in Children
2014-03-04T05:00:00Yahoo! Health, Day in HealthBy Lisa Collier CoolHighly regarded healthcare journalist Lisa Collier Cool covers the risks of sending children straight to CT for scans to investigate potential appendicitis. She points out that ionizing radiation from CT poses cancer threats to children and that ultrasound is a viable alternative and could be the first line of imaging for children for certain diagnostic investigations.Read article
Emergency Ultrasound at the Bedside Improves Safety
Patient Safety & Quality HealthcareDavid Bahner, MD, RDMS, FACEP, FAAEM, FAIUMDr. Bahner underscores that since the 1980s, emergency ultrasound performed by emergency physicians at the point of care has been recognised as a valuable technology to improve the department. Employing ultrasound at the bedside, he asserts, can reduce medical errors, provide more efficient real-time diagnosis, and in certain clinical scenarios, supplement or replace more expensive imaging modalities such as CT and reduce patient exposure to ionising radiation. This article details how ultrasound can…
Flip The Funnel For Increased Physician Efficiency and Improved Patient Satisfaction
Becker's Hospital Review
Chuck Thigpen, PhD, PT, ATC, Clinical Research Scientist, Proaxis Therapy, and Mike Kissenberth MD, Vice Chair of Orthopaedics, Greenville Health System
The emerging healthcare environment requires expanded patient access while minimizing the cost of care. This is of particular importance for accountable care organisations that are assuming significant risk and must develop more innovative ways to deliver care to drive better outcomes and wring out inefficiencies. Our practise has experienced this struggle on a daily basis as patients, who needed a surgical consult…
Imaging Economics
2011-04-15T04:00:00True ValueDavid B. Case, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine at Cornell University Weill College of Medicine in New York
John E. Postley, MD, FACP, assistant clinical professor of medicine at Columbia University.
The authors discuss that the turf wars of several years ago have given way to discussion regarding the appropriate use of ultrasound at the point of care across medical specialties including obstetrics, cardiology, emergency medicine, anesthesiology, musculoskeletal and beyond. Given ultrasound’s benefits and cost effectiveness, the authors…
Pathways That Deliver Increased Physician Efficiency And Improved Patient Satisfaction
2014-08-15T04:00:00American Association of Orthopedic Executives NewsletterChuck Thigpen PhD, PT, ATC- Clinical Research Scientist, Proaxis Therapy
AAOE (American Association of Orthopedic Executives) NewsletterThe authors walk through the rationale, steps taken and results from a re-engineered clinical shoulder injury pathway program focused on rotator cuff tears. By using the appropriately skilled provider at the right time and through first line use of ultrasound instead of MRI, the program lead to the clinic being able to serve more patients by improving physician efficiency. …
Ultrasound Needle Guidance in Rheumatology: Advances, Applications and Clinical Pearls
Rheumatology Practise News Special EditionJanak R. Goyal, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical SchoolDirector, Division of Rhaematology, Raritan Medical CentrePerth Amboy, New JerseyThis article enumerates the benefits and applications of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and details procedural guidance for join and soft tissue injections and aspirations. Dr. Goyal also explains that ultrasound technology has been shown to be 6.5 times more sensitive than x-rays for early, accurate diagnosis of small bone erosions in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.…