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

February 4, 2019
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
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, one of Iraq’s largest cities, 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...[Read more]

POCUS Profile: Dr. Fidel Fernandez

January 9, 2019
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]

POCUS Profile: Dr. Jens Doffert

November 29, 2018

Join the Redesigned Sonosite Institute Today!

October 25, 2018
Have you ever considered using point-of-care ultrasound but didn’t know where to begin? Fujifilm Sonosite customers have a powerful tool to help them ramp up their scanning skills, making the POCUS learning curve a lot less steep. Sonosite Institute.jpg We’re...[Read more]

POCUS Profile: Dr. Farah Chaudhry

October 9, 2018
Dr. Farah Chaudhry, Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health for Leeds Sexual Health, West Yorkshire, describes how point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) allows her to give informed and clear assurances to women using long-acting contraception. I spent 10 years as a GP...[Read more]

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