POCUS Goes Airborne for Helicopter Rescue
Emergency doctor Dr. Didier Moens is in charge of rescue missions in the Centre Médical Héliporté (CMH) of Bra sur Lienne, near Liège in Belgium. He believes access to point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) on emergency helicopters is now essential for improving the care of critically ill patients:
“I’ve worked in emergency medicine for over 20 years, specializing in pre-hospital care. Our helicopter rescues allow us to reach accidents and emergencies swiftly, and transport patients quickly to the nearest adequate hospital—whether that’s from patients’ homes or workplaces, the scene of a road…
A Time to Reflect: Sonosite PX Celebrates a Year to Remember
Anniversaries are times to celebrate, but also times to reflect. At FUJIFILM Sonosite, we’re thrilled to recognize the one-year anniversary of the launch of Sonosite PX, our next generation point-of-care ultrasound system (POCUS) with the most advanced image clarity ever seen in a Sonosite system.As we mark the one-year milestone of bringing Sonosite PX to market, we want to reflect on just a few of the significant achievements that our robust POCUS system is credited with during this past year.For starters, Sonosite PX made its entrance during one of the most challenging times for healthcare…
Consider All Ultrasound Machine Costs of Ownership
When making a high investment in medical equipment it is important not only to compare the price and quality of each product, in these cases it begins to be necessary to analyze the total cost of ownership (TCO) during the useful life of the equipment, since it could happen that the indirect costs exceed the sale price, plus all the additional problems that can even lead to damage to the reputation of the hospital.In recent medical meetings, the TCO and the indirect costs that constitute it are being debated. Some of these costs to consider are technical service and repairs, although software…
Dr. David Chaparro - Bringing clarity in the most difficult environments
Dr. David Chaparro, in addition to working as an emergency doctor at the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid, also participates in humanitarian aid projects in some of the poorest countries in the world, treating patients, training other professionals in the use of bedside ultrasound (POCUS), and demonstrating how it improves patient care in the most difficult settings:
“I was lucky to discover ultrasound quite early in my career, now I use it every day in my daily work. It is a fundamental tool that complements the anamnesis and the physical examination, guiding the request for…
Setting Up a Point-of-Care Ultrasound Program in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Drawing on Dr. Jae Kim’s experience with implementing and leading POCUS programs in two U.S. children’s hospitals, this article provides a five-step roadmap to adoption of this imaging modality to improve the safety and quality of care in the NICU. Physician training, the most active uses, and opportunities for POCUS in neonatal medicine and case examples are discussed. The article also provides guidance on selecting a point-of-care ultrasound system for neonatology.
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Solving revenue capture for POCUS – The importance of workflow management
HealthCare Business News sat down with Dr. John Hipskind, ultrasound GME director and ultrasound fellowship director at Kaweah Delta Medical Center, one of the first sites to use Sonosite Synchronicity™ workflow manager. Dr. Hipskind discusses the advantages of point-of-care ultrasound, from reducing phantom scans, to easing credentialing and QA processes, and improving revenue at his facility.
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POCUS Profile: Dr. Pradeep Suryawanshi
Dr. Pradeep Suryawanshi, Professor & Head, Department of Neonatology at BVU Medical College, Pune, India has 15 years of experience in field of neonatology. He is the first person to commence point-of-care neonatal ultrasound and neonatal functional echocardiography courses in India. He recently shared his views about how the use of point-of-care ultrasound has made a significant impact in his routine clinical practice.Back in 2007, was the first time I ever handled the Sonosite ultrasound system in India and that was like magic embracing me and enlightening me with a confirmation of all…
Ready to Face the Pandemic: Sonosite PX Launches in a Moment of Crisis
This July, FUJIFILM Sonosite launched Sonosite PX, its newest ultrasound system, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Diku Mandavia, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of FUJIFILM Sonosite, sat down with sonographer and Sonosite’s Director of Marketing Development Jodi Miller to discuss how Sonosite’s newest ultrasound system can help frontline health care workers combat the pandemic and why Sonosite PX is uniquely suited for this global health crisis.
Jodi Miller:
Some people may be asking, “Why launch Sonosite PX now, in the middle of a global pandemic?” Is there anything specific…
Ultrasound Critical for Women's Health in Sierra Leone
The mission of Partners in Health (PIH) is to provide a preferential option for the underprivileged in health care. By establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations, PIH strives to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them.
PIH has been working in Sierra Leone since 2014, upon an invitation from the government to help end West Africa’s historic Ebola epidemic. While leading efforts to treat Ebola patients and contain the spread, PIH made a long-term commitment to support the government in revitalizing the country’s public health sector and…
POCUS PROFILE: Dr Amjad Maniar
Dr. Amjad Maniar is a consultant anesthesiologist at People Tree Hospital in Bengaluru, India. He spoke with Sonosite about his journey from using landmark techniques to ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia.
Discovering Ultrasound
Back in early 2000, when I was a resident studying in Bengaluru, I was quite reluctant to incorporate regional anesthesia into my practice. Those were the days of the landmark technique, and nerve stimulators were strictly the guarded property of the scarce enthusiast. For a trainee like me, struggling to find his wings in a difficult specialty, learning to…
Radiologist Brings Ultrasound to the Barrios
Dr. David Johnsen is a diagnostic radiologist working with medical missions to the Dominican Republic. His team borrowed a Sonosite M-Turbo through Sonosite’s Global Loaner Program for a recent mission. Dr. Johnsen submitted this report of his experiences in the Caribbean country.Our medical mission team is organized through Second Presbyterian Church in Roanoke, Virginia. We are one of about 30 medical teams that participate in the mission of Solid Rock International (SRI). SRI is a nonprofit Christian ministry that operates in the Dominican Republic (DR), based in San Juan de la…
POCUS Profile: Dr. Fabith Moideen
Dr. Fabith Moideen, Chief of Emergency Medicine department at Baby Memorial Hospital, Kozhikode, Kerala, India has worked for 13 years in emergency medicine. Dr. Moideen recently shared his journey with point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and its importance in routine clinical practice.
To begin with, my interest in POCUS started just like a gadget fever. I started using POCUS on all my patients, and eventually fell in love with it because of its contribution to challenging cases in my clinical practice. POCUS became a part of my diagnosis, improved my clinical skills, and has surely added to…
Diving Deep with POCUS: Ultrasound and Air Embolism
Costantino Balestra, Professor of Physiology at Haute Ecole Bruxelles-Brabant in Belgium, uses point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in environments that could not be more different from a typical hospital setting. His expertise lies in studying the effects of extreme conditions on the human body, including temperatures, altitudes, and ambient pressures found in deep oceans.
One of his areas of research has focused on evaluating the formation of vascular gas emboli (VGE) in divers after they have resurfaced from high-pressure depths. While the presence of these air bubbles in the heart is a…
Emergency Physician Uses Sonosite M-Turbo for Education Exchange in Guatemala
University of Washington/Harborview Medical Center emergency medicine physician Emily Bartlett, MD, MS, traveled to Guatemala City in 2019 for a recently established emergency medicine program. The trip was focused on educational exchange and professional development for program residents. Dr. Bartlett borrowed a Sonosite M-Turbo for this trip, and sent us this report.
I was able to carry the ultrasound in the backpack provided by Sonosite on my flight, and brought it to the hospital every day. Local clinicians face the challenge of a high volume of patients with acute medical and…
Sharing Critical Ultrasound Knowledge in Eritrea
Emergency room consultant Norbert Pfeufer, MBA, has developed and organized ultrasound workshops for anesthetists in Eritrea, Africa, for a number of years. This has helped to support doctors in the area that are faced with many daily challenges, including language barriers and a lack of resources. Pfeufer explains:
“Eritrea is a country situated in the Horn of Africa, and is home to approximately 6.3 million people. The inhabitants belong to one of nine different nations, each with its own language, and form a wide demographic of ethnicities and religions. This large population, when in…
Rotary Clubs Help Send Sonosite M-Turbo to Zimbabwe
Canadian obstetrician and gynecologist Paul Thistle, MD, FRCSC, LL.D has been working full-time in Zimbabwe since 1995. He works at Karanada Mission Hospital, a 150-bed hospital in northeastern Zimbabwe serving a community of 220,000 people with four doctors and 40 nurses. Karanda provides holistic medical, surgical, and community care. Karanda treats 100,000 patients a year, with 2,000 deliveries in the maternity ward and 4,000 surgical cases in the operating rooms. There is also a nursing school attached to the hospital that trains midwives and registered general nurses. …
Sonosite iViz Plays Key Role in POCUS Education in Panama
Emergency physician Matthew Lyon, MD FACEP, of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University is actively involved in an ultrasound education exchange with medical students and residents at the University of Panama. The school is currently teaching 1,000 medical students in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) with a six-year curriculum. “We developed a relationship with the University of Panama,” Dr. Lyon explains. “We train their medical students in how to use ultrasound as both an educational tool to learn anatomy and physiology and in the point of care.”
Sonosite iViz has been the…
Michigan Doctors Bring Ultrasound Education to Madagascar
Pediatric and internal medicine resident Marie Arnaout, DO, and Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine Prashant Patel, DO, recently returned from Madagascar on a mission for Western Michigan University School of Medicine. They were accompanied by internal physician Richard Roach, MD (a long-serving senior faculty member who goes to Madagascar annually) and other pediatric and internal specialists. The mission worked with local SALFA (Lutheran) clinicians at clinics and hospitals in three communities. The team borrowed a Sonosite M-Turbo from the Global Health Loaner Pool. Drs. Arnaout and…
Ultrasound Guy Gives Back to Jamaica with Sonosite’s Help
Trevor Dixon, MD, RDMS, is the Director of Emergency Ultrasound at Jacobi Medical Center in New York City and the founder and CEO of the JAHJAH Foundation (Jamaicans Abroad Helping Jamaicans At Home). Because of his specialty, Dr. Dixon is known as “The Ultrasound Guy.”
For JAHJAH’s 2020 mission, a team of 27 volunteers traveled to Jamaica, including an OBGYN, dentists, pediatrician, ER physicians, nurses, and other support staff. JAHJAH’s annual "Mission for Change" takes place over a one-week period. The Mission for Change includes the 2-Day Annual Emergency Ultrasound…
Anesthesiologist Achieves Impressive Results with Nerve Blocks in Ecuador
Pain management specialist Joseph Marino, MD, is the chief medical officer at Long Island Jewish Valley Stream. He also serves as the director of regional anesthesia for Northwell Health and holds a faculty position at the Zucker School of Medicine. Dr. Marino has published numerous articles and worked on many textbooks in the field of anesthesia and pain medicine.
Dr. Marino recently returned from a medical mission in Ecuador on behalf of the Northwell Health Global Surgery Initiative, a series of programs to promote universal access to safe and quality surgical treatment through clinical…