Reaching the Remote: Gustavino's Story
Part 2 of our compelling 6 part series. The second video in this extraordinary series shows Gustavino, a frail boy with a fast deteriorating heart condition living high up in the mountains, 5 hour's hard trek from Pueblo Nuevo, Panama. Making the journey on foot, Floating Doctors founder, Dr. Ben La Brot defies the geography and other obstacles to link up Gustavino's medical needs and recovery with cardiologists hundreds of miles away. High up in the mountains above Pueblo Nuevo, Panama, the young boy Gustavino struggles with an unknown heart defect leaving him short of breath, weak and 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…
Reaching the Remote: Getting the Edge on Diagnosis
Part 1 of our compelling 6 part series.
The Floating Doctors set up a mobile clinic in the village community of Bahia Grande on the Panamanian coastline. See Dr. Ben La Brot use the Edge system for the first time as he performs a gallbladder scan on an elderly woman with abdominal pain. Those few simple words: 'would you like to watch?' show just how profound a change hand-carried ultrasound is bringing to the relationship between clinician and patient. Dr. Ben La Brot of Floating Doctors puts a new Edge system through it's paces as he uses the technology to judge the severity of the…
Bringing Health Care to Remote Communities
Watch our 6 part series, coming soon. Compelling footage from the Floating Doctors. Medical teams travel in open boats to provide treatment, education and training to remote communities without access to healthcare. This new video series takes us on their journey as they demonstrate the role hand-carried ultrasound can play administering medicine in such isolated places. Watch how a timely ultrasound exam prevents a breach birth in the jungle; see a small child diagnosed with a serious heart condition, and more. Dr. Ben La Brot's non-profit organization has treated thousands of patients…
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…
User Stories: Taking Ultrasound to Mongolia
Ingrid Yuile, an accredited ultrasound educator and medical sonographer with 7 years of experience scanning in hospitals and private clinics across the country, took her training skills and Sonosite EDGE to the steppes of Mongolia and found a country of beauty and complexity. This is her story:
“In June 2015, I set off with 8 intrepid emergency physicians to teach emergency medicine to Mongolian doctors across a range disciplines. A strong relationship between Australian and Mongolian anaesthetists has been forged since 2001 when Dr David Pesod first…
Notes From the Front of the Ebola Fight in Africa
Penn doctor going back for second tour fighting Ebola in Africa
Henwood in the protective gear that prevented her use of a stethoscope, with the ultrasound machine she used to check patients instead.
After spending five weeks working in an Ebola treatment unit, Dr Trish Henwood is going back for a second tour fighting Ebola in Africa.
She feels the work is vitally important, that great progress is being made, that the virus can be stopped, and that America must continue its support in fighting the deadly virus and epidemic.
She spent five weeks in Bong County, a remote area in Northern…
Natividad wins Trauma II designation
Surgical services staff applauds at a ceremony on Monday marking Natividad Medical Center's designation as a Level II Trauma Center for Monterey County. To help them in their work, trauma center staff has 51 pieces of new equipment. Walls singles out Sonosite portable ultrasound as one of his favorite pieces of equipment.:
Sonosite portable ultrasound machine.
"It can instantly look inside your abdoman and chest to see if there's bleeding. It allows us to do a 'fast exam.' In a few seconds, I can look in both sides of your abdomen, around your heart ... and tell the trauma surgeon whether…
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 Orthopedics, 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 organizations that are assuming significant risk and must develop more innovative ways to deliver care to drive better outcomes and wring out inefficiencies. Our practice has experienced this struggle on a daily basis as patients, who needed a surgical consult,…
Ultrasound Guidance at the Point of Care
Executive Insight
By 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 imaging.
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Ultrasound-guided CVCs Replace Landmark Method
by Nicole Gray
Since 1900, life expectancy has increased from less than 50 years to more than 80, thanks in part to remarkable improvements in medicine and healthcare delivery. Nonetheless, as renowned surgeon Atul Gawande once wrote, “We look for science to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure, but it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, fallible individuals and, at the same time, lives on the line.”
Unfortunately, one time that patients are most vulnerable to the fallibility of medicine is when they are hospitalized. In fact, each…
CT Dose in Children
Yahoo! Health, Day in Health
By Lisa Collier Cool
Highly 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.
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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 recognized 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 ionizing radiation. This article details how ultrasound can…
Improving Safety and Quality with Best Practices: Focus on Central Venous Access
Patient 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 California
Dr. 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 Medical Center in Los…
Imaging Economics
True Value
David 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 express concern…
Ultrasound Needle Guidance in Rheumatology: Advances, Applications and Clinical Pearls
Rheumatology Practice News Special EditionJanak R. Goyal, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical SchoolDirector, Division of Rhematology, Raritan Medical CenterPerth 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.…
Our Journey to Zero Patient Harm
Group Practice Journal
Michael 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…
How Sonosite is Helping to Fight Ebola
From ground zero of the Ebola outbreak – Dr.Trish Henwood is on a medical mission to better understand the pathophysiology of the disease and her Sonosite ultrasound has already been proven invaluable. It is pioneer physicians like Trish that will allow the global medical community to get a grasp on this devastating illness and with our support she is actually making that happen.
We received a wonderful letter from Trish today telling us about some of the work she has been doing in Liberia:
Not surprisingly, in just a brief period of use, I found all sorts of interesting and important…
Pathways That Deliver Increased Physician Efficiency And Improved Patient Satisfaction
American Association of Orthopedic Executives Newsletter
Chuck Thigpen PhD, PT, ATC- Clinical Research Scientist, Proaxis Therapy
Walk through the rationale, steps taken, and results recorded 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.
The result was exceptional economic and clinical value: the program…
Sonosite Supports PURE in Uganda
PURE – Point-of-care Ultrasound in Resource-limited Environments:
PURE is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization comprised of medical professionals and others dedicated to enhancing ultrasound education and use in the developing world.
As one of our global initiatives, Sonosite is proud to support PURE with M-Turbo equipment. Its portability and resilience make it a perfect solution when travelling to resource-limited environments.
With such remote locations as Rwanda, Kenya, and Uganda, PURE has been able to provide ultrasound training for more than 150 clinicians over the last…