Beyond the Block: Why Would an Anesthesiologist Use Ultrasound?

 Increasingly, anesthesiologists have been using ultrasound guidance to help visualize soft tissue anatomy and nerve location while performing regional nerve blocks. Correct placement of local anesthetics lead to long lasting pain management and enhanced

Increasingly, anesthesiologists have been using ultrasound guidance to help visualize soft tissue anatomy and nerve location while performing regional nerve blocks. Correct placement of local anesthetics lead to long lasting pain management and enhanced recovery times.

But beyond the block, how does ultrasound help anesthesiologists do their jobs?

The answer has a lot to do with the changing practice of medicine.

Sonosite Patient Safety: Reducing Risk and Cost of Interventional Procedures

As point-of-care ultrasound becomes more common, hospital administrators across the world are understanding that beside ultrasound can do more than provide patients with real-time diagnosis and increase satisfaction scores – it can also make patients safe

As point-of-care ultrasound becomes more common, hospital administrators across the world are understanding that bedside ultrasound can do more than provide patients with real-time diagnosis and increase satisfaction scores – it can also make patients safer.

As we travel across the United States at our Patient Safety Education events in cities like Houston, Atlanta and Seattle, Sonosite will be discussing solutions and strategies for increasing patient safety. We’re inviting

Passion for Patient Care Revolutionizes Vascular Access

Passion for Patient Care Revolutionizes Vascular Access
How can ultrasound guidance help nurses insert IVs?
 

“Anyone who ever sat through nurses making multiple IV needle sticks understands the value of ultrasound-guided vascular access, but this goes much deeper than an annoying hour trying to draw a few vials of blood or an arm that is bruised for a day or two,” said Vascular Access Coordinator Matthew ­­­­­­Ostroff. When St.

Ultrasound in MSK

Dr. Byron Patterson,  is a partner in Primary Care Sports Medicine in Tarzana California, recently visted Sonosite headquarters and gave a presentation to Sonosite employees about ultrasound applications in sports medicine.