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In-flight Ultrasound Changes Medical Outcome

February 17, 2019

SonoSite ultrasound and STARS air ambulance

STARS (Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service) Air Ambulance is a non-profit emergency air transport organization* that serves rural communities in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. Funded by donations from private individuals, STARS was founded by Dr. Gregory Powell, who had...[Read more]

Point-of-Care Ultrasound on Mt. Everest

February 11, 2019

Dr. Luanne Freer is, to put it mildly, comfortable with being uncomfortable. A trained emergency medicine physician who grew up in the Washington DC area, Dr. Freer serves as medical director of Yellowstone National Park through Medcor Inc. When she’s...[Read more]

Teaching USGRA in Papua New Guinea

February 5, 2019

An advocate for the expansion of the use of point-of-care ultrasound, Dr. Yasmin Endlich is an anesthesiologist who practices medicine in Australia and regularly travels to Papua New Guinea to provide medical training to local physicians . Here, she explains...[Read more]

Doctors Without Borders: Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Sudan

February 4, 2019

SonoSite blog: Doctors Without Borders in Sudan

Dr. Achai Bulabek is a clinical officer with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) . At age 28, she is currently serving a region between Sudan and South Sudan (her native country). Her hospital recently adopted a point-of-care ultrasound system (POCUS) that...[Read more]

Point-Of-Care Ultrasound Helps Make Regional Anesthesia Quicker And Safer

January 30, 2019

Ultrasound-guidance has proven invaluable for the regional neurosurgical center at the Salford Royal Hospital outside Manchester, England. In addition to helping to improve patient safety, ultrasound is increasingly being used to guide regional anesthesia , offering a variety of benefits...[Read more]

Harvard Study Finds Significant Cost Savings with POCUS Use

January 21, 2019

Point-of-care ultrasound helps tame cost escalation in the ER

According to a study conducted by Harvard researchers, emergency physicians in community-hospital settings that chose to use diagnostic point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in patient care saved patients, insurance companies, and hospitals significant sums of money, even if the results of an...[Read more]

SonoSite Ultrasound Lends Help to Humanitarian Efforts in Mosul, Iraq

January 21, 2019

Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, is slowly rebuilding its healthcare infrastructure after years of war. Dr. Henryk Pich is doing his part to help. As a young man, Dr. Henryk Pich spent time travelling in the Middle East. Not surprisingly,...[Read more]

POCUS Profile: Dr. Fidel Fernandez

January 9, 2019

Dr Fidel Fernandez with SonoSite Ultrasound Machines

Ultrasound is a vital tool for vascular surgeons in the 21 st century. In the following essay, Dr. Fidel Fernández Quesada, a sixth-generation vascular surgeon and associate professor at the University of Granada, Spain, describes the difference that ultrasound has...[Read more]

SonoSite and Bridge To Health: POCUS Training in Uganda

January 6, 2019

To celebrate 20 years of helping clinicians bring ultrasound to the point of care , SonoSite partnered with Canadian NGO Bridge To Health and Uganda's Kigezi Healthcare Foundation (KIHEFO) to help them train Ugandan medical officers on how to diagnose...[Read more]

20 Years of SonoSite: Bringing Ultrasound to the Forefront of Global Health

January 6, 2019

According to the World Health Organization, much of the world’s population has no access to ultrasound imaging . From the jungles of Panama to the mountains of Nepal, the clinicians that are a part of our Global Health Program and...[Read more]

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