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POCUS Profile: Dr. Xavier Sala-Blanch

June 8, 2018
SonoSite POCUS Profile: Dr. Xavier Sala-Blanch
Point-of-care ultrasound is playing an important role in the anesthesiology department at Spain’s Hospital Clinic of Barcelona . Dr. Xavier Sala-Blanch, Senior Doctor and Head of Section in the hospital’s Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation and Associate Professor of Anatomy...[Read more]

POCUS Profile: Dr. Sameer Bhandari

June 6, 2018
POCUS Profile: Dr. Sameer Bhandari
Dr. Sameer Bhandari, a Consultant in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Pinderfields General Hospital in Wakefield, England, plays an integral role in the company’s Complete Ultrasound-guided Regional Anesthesia Education (CURE) course . Here, he describes how he teaches ultrasound-guided regional...[Read more]

A Letter from Dr. Samuel Abelson

May 23, 2018
Children in Haiti are Carrying Yellow Water Jugs and Smiling at Camera
The following is a letter from Dr. Samuel Abelson, an emergency medicine physician who lives in Minneapolis. Four years ago, Project Medishare began teaching point-of-care ultrasound to the staff at Hospital Bernard Mevs in Port Au Prince. Through the SonoSite...[Read more]

Who Orders the Most MSK Extremity Imaging?

May 10, 2018
SonoSite MSK portable ultrasound uses
Researchers obtained data from the public Medicare files to find data on provider referral for medical imaging to identify the providers referring MSK extremity imaging examinations to radiologists . The results? In 2014, a total of 4,275,647 MSK extremity imaging...[Read more]

Reducing Costs and Increasing Care Quality With Ultrasound-Guided PIVs

May 7, 2018
SonoSite and ultrasound guided vascular access
How does ultrasound-guided vascular access improve care and reduce costs? In a new article in Axis Imaging, Fujifilm SonoSite's Chief Medical Officer Diku Mandavia writes about how Matthew Ostroff, ARNP, a vascular access specialist at St. Joseph’s Healthcare System, a...[Read more]

When IV Insertion Seems Impossible

April 18, 2018
20 to 1: New hospital program reduces number of failed IV insertion attempts
Any medical professional with hospital experience knows how crucial peripheral IV access can be. Getting fluids and medications into a critically ill or injured patient can make or break the effectiveness of their treatment. At the best, a “difficult stick”—that...[Read more]

Ultrasound in Limited-Resource Settings can Help Saves Lives

March 30, 2018
Dr. Ben LaBrot lectures about patient care at Floating Doctors headquarters in Panama.
Dr Ben LaBrot 2.png by Dr. Ben LaBrot, founder of Floating Doctors Recently, while visiting the US, I went to the emergency room with a family member who was suffering some generalized complaints (chest and abdominal pain). Very soon after...[Read more]

Hospital Continues Efforts to Reduce Opioid Over-Prescription

March 21, 2018
Hospital Continues Efforts to Reduce Opioid Over-Prescription
St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey has been among the forefront of medical providers who are attempting to stem the U.S. opioid addiction epidemic where it often starts: the Emergency Department . Fujifilm SonoSite has been delighted...[Read more]

User Stories: Sports Medicine Clinic Physician Uses SonoSite Ultrasound

March 12, 2018
SonoSite User Stories blog post
Dr. Adam Garnett, a sports and exercise medicine (SEM) consultant at the Jersey Sports Medicine Clinic, divides his time between treating rugby players suffering from acute trauma injuries and triathletes and runners with overuse injuries. He explained how the use...[Read more]

Sports and Exercise Medicine Benefits from the Use of Ultrasound

March 12, 2018
Dr Mark Ridgewell describes how point-of-care ultrasound has become increasingly important in sports and exercise medicine in recent years.
Point-of-care ultrasound is an essential tool for Dr. Mark Ridgewell, an early pioneer of sport and exercise medicine (SEM) . Through the course of his career, Mark has worked with many amateur and professional sportsmen and women, beginning with rugby...[Read more]

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