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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]

Ultrasound Advances Research and Education in Uganda

January 3, 2020

Emergency physician Jessica Schmidt, MD, MPH, assistant professor at the School of Medicine and Public Health at University of Wisconsin, Madison, recently returned from a very productive visit to Uganda. Physicians at the University of Wisconsin Madison have partnered with...[Read more]

POCUS for Emergency Medicine Helps Save Lives

December 31, 2019

Emergency physicians must make life-saving decisions as quickly as possible to choose the correct treatment and direct patients to an appropriate hospital. Emergency department chief Dr. Sylvain Benenati and emergency doctor Dr. David Sapir, both from Melun Hospital in France,...[Read more]

Emergency Physician Promotes POCUS Education in Laotian Capital

December 30, 2019

Dr. Jeff Dan teaching clinicians about ultrasound in Laos; Dr. Jeff Dan and friends riding a jumbo taxi in Vientiane, Laos

Dr. Jeff Dan, MD is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Baystate Medical Center, which serves as a regional campus for the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He recently returned from his third trip to Vientiane, Laos on behalf...[Read more]

Evaluating the Benefits of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Geriatric Medicine

December 20, 2019

Dr. Nicolas Azulay, general medicine doctor s the University Hospitals of Nice, France; Sonosite iViz

Dr. Nicolas Azulay is a general medicine doctor specializing in scheduled and emergency ultrasound examinations at the University Hospitals of Nice, France, where he works at the Pasteur II and Cimiez hospitals. As part of the clinical research program GERICARE,...[Read more]

Learning to Master Ultrasound-Guided Pain Control in Zambia

December 17, 2019

Consultant and trainee anesthetists from Surrey, England traveled to Lusaka, Zambia with a point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) system to train Zambian colleagues in ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia. Dr. Madankumar Narayanan describes the educational objectives of the visit and the enthusiastic response from...[Read more]

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