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Ultrasound Improves Renal Care at St. Helier Hospital

February 12, 2020
St Helier Hospital in the London borough of Sutton has one of the largest renal medicine departments in the UK, and relies on Fujifilm Sonosite point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) systems to improve care and patient safety. Dr Pritpal Virdee, a senior...[Read more]

POCUS Profile: Dr Raj Tobin

February 11, 2020
Dr. Raj Tobin, Director & Head of the Department of Anesthesiology at Max Super Specialty Hospital in Saket, New Delhi has 28 years of experience in anesthesiology. We interviewed Dr. Tobin to learn about the various clinical applications and the...[Read more]

Sonosite M-Turbo Gets Plenty of Work in Vanuatu: Part Two

February 10, 2020
This post is the second part of Dr. Jonathan “Jono” Henry’s report from the Pacific nation of Vanuatu. Be sure to read the first chapter of his remarkable report . Out in the peripheries, supply chains fail frequently: depleted electrolyte...[Read more]

New MSK Patients are Prescribed Painkillers More Often

February 4, 2020
A new study published by the National Institutes of Health’s Journal of Pain reveals that first-time patients suffering from chronic MSK pain are prescribed opioids more often than non-drug treatments. Researchers analyzed data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey...[Read more]

Nurse Educator Puts Sonosite iViz Ultrasound to Work in Ethiopia

January 31, 2020
Nurse educator Abigail Butts MS, RN, CCNS, CCRN is the Communications Project Manager of Three Roots International , a nonprofit that partners with communities in Ethiopia to cultivate community development and economic capacity by empowering families through education, health, and...[Read more]

Sonographer Brings POCUS Education to Guyana

January 28, 2020
Sonographer Radha Persaud and her team in Guyana
RAD-AID International works to optimize access to medical imaging, radiology services, and nursing care and education in over 30 countries around the world. In a recent medical mission to Guyana, Radha Persaud, RDMS, RDCS, RT, Ultrasound Coordinator at Zucker School...[Read more]

Center for Medicare & Medicaid Implement New Rules for Shoulder Pain Diagnosis

January 22, 2020
Beginning on January 1, 2020, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched a new appropriate use criteria (AUC) program for advanced diagnostic imaging services provided to Medicare beneficiaries. The purpose of the new program, enacted as part of...[Read more]

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Implement New Criteria for Advanced Imaging

January 21, 2020
Beginning January 1, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is implementing a new appropriate use criteria (AUC) program that will be applied to advanced diagnostic imaging services. The program was established as a provision of the 2014...[Read more]

Australian Hospital Uses X-Porte to Identify Bone Fractures

January 16, 2020
Girl being scanned for a fracture by a ultrasound machine
An X-ray machine isn’t always necessary to image a broken bone. In an article published in the Queensland government’s healthcare site Gold Coast Health , Dr. Peter Snelling of Gold Coast University Hospital explains how he uses ultrasound to identify...[Read more]

Sonosite Ultrasound Technology in an African Village

January 7, 2020
Emergency physician Dr. Steven Boutrus was kind enough to write this article for Fujifilm Sonosite about his use of ultrasound during a medical mission for Grace Dental and Medical Missions . Boïffo is a rural village in the far north...[Read more]

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