Emergency Physician Uses Sonosite M-Turbo for Education Exchange in Guatemala
University of Washington/Harbourview Medical Centre emergency medicine physician Emily Bartlett, MD, MS, traveled to Guatemala City in 2019 for a recently established emergency medicine programme. The trip was focused on educational exchange and professional development for programme residents. Dr. Bartlett borrowed a Sonosite M-Turbo for this trip, and sent us this report.
I was able to carry the ultrasound in the backpack provided by Sonosite on my flight, and brought it to the hospital every day. Local clinicians face the challenge of a high volume of patients with acute medical and…
POCUS Profile: Dr. Fabith Moideen
Dr. Fabith Moideen, Chief of Emergency Medicine department at Baby Memorial Hospital, Kozhikode, Kerala, India has worked for 13 years in emergency medicine. Dr. Moideen recently shared his journey with point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and its importance in routine clinical practise.
To begin with, my interest in POCUS started just like a gadget fever. I started using POCUS on all my patients, and eventually fell in love with it because of its contribution to challenging cases in my clinical practise. POCUS became a part of my diagnosis, improved my clinical skills, and has surely added to…
Sharing Critical Ultrasound Knowledge in Eritrea
Emergency room consultant Norbert Pfeufer, MBA, has developed and organized ultrasound workshops for anesthetists in Eritrea, Africa, for a number of years. This has helped to support doctors in the area that are faced with many daily challenges, including language barriers and a lack of resources. Pfeufer explains:
“Eritrea is a country situated in the Horn of Africa, and is home to approximately 6.3 million people. The inhabitants belong to one of nine different nations, each with its own language, and form a wide demographic of ethnicities and religions. This large population, when in…
Rotary Clubs Help Send Sonosite M-Turbo to Zimbabwe
Canadian obstetrician and gynaecologist Paul Thistle, MD, FRCSC, LL.D has been working full-time in Zimbabwe since 1995. He works at Karanada Mission Hospital, a 150-bed hospital in northeastern Zimbabwe serving a community of 220,000 people with four doctors and 40 nurses. Karanda provides holistic medical, surgical, and community care. Karanda treats 100,000 patients a year, with 2,000 deliveries in the maternity ward and 4,000 surgical cases in the operating rooms. There is also a nursing school attached to the hospital that trains midwives and registered general nurses. …
Sonosite iViz Plays Key Role in POCUS Education in Panama
Emergency physician Matthew Lyon, MD FACEP, of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University is actively involved in an ultrasound education exchange with medical students and residents at the University of Panama. The school is currently teaching 1,000 medical students in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) with a six-year curriculum. “We developed a relationship with the University of Panama,” Dr. Lyon explains. “We train their medical students in how to use ultrasound as both an educational tool to learn anatomy and physiology and in the point of care.”
Sonosite iViz has been the…
Michigan Doctors Bring Ultrasound Education to Madagascar
Paediatric and internal medicine resident Marie Arnaout, DO, and Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine Prashant Patel, DO, recently returned from Madagascar on a mission for Western Michigan University School of Medicine. They were accompanied by internal physician Richard Roach, MD (a long-serving senior faculty member who goes to Madagascar annually) and other paediatric and internal specialists. The mission worked with local SALFA (Lutheran) clinicians at clinics and hospitals in three communities. The team borrowed a Sonosite M-Turbo from the Global Health Loaner Pool. Drs. Arnaout…
Ultrasound Guy Gives Back to Jamaica with Sonosite’s Help
Trevor Dixon, MD, RDMS, is the Director of Emergency Ultrasound at Jacobi Medical Centre in New York City and the founder and CEO of the JAHJAH Foundation (Jamaicans Abroad Helping Jamaicans At Home). Because of his specialty, Dr. Dixon is known as “The Ultrasound Guy.”
For JAHJAH’s 2020 mission, a team of 27 volunteers traveled to Jamaica, including an OBGYN, dentists, paediatrician, ER physicians, nurses, and other support staff. JAHJAH’s annual "Mission for Change" takes place over a one-week period. The Mission for Change includes the 2-Day Annual Emergency Ultrasound…
Anaesthesiologist Achieves Impressive Results with Nerve Blocks in Ecuador
Pain management specialist Joseph Marino, MD, is the chief medical officer at Long Island Jewish Valley Stream. He also serves as the director of regional anaesthesia for Northwell Health and holds a faculty position at the Zucker School of Medicine. Dr. Marino has published numerous articles and worked on many textbooks in the field of anaesthesia and pain medicine.
Dr. Marino recently returned from a medical mission in Ecuador on behalf of the Northwell Health Global Surgery Initiative, a series of programmes to promote universal access to safe and quality surgical treatment through…
Italian Hospital Makes Headway against COVID-19
Last month, we interviewed Dr. Enrico Storti, Anaesthesia and ICU Director/Unit Coordinator of the Emergency Department at Maggiore Hospital, from the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic in Lodi, Italy. In this latest update from Lodi, BBC show Newsnight was given exclusive access to Maggiore Hospital. Drs. Storti and his fellow physician Stefano Paglia, head of Maggiore’s hospital’s emergency department, gave Newsnight an inspiring status update as they “catch their breath” and continue to treat COVID-19 patients.
Renal Imaging and Blood Clotting for COVID-19 Patients
Dr. Justin Kirk-Bayley is the Clinical Director of Therapeutics at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford, England. Dr. Kirk-Bayley is an expert in the use of ultrasound in the ICU and anaesthesiology.
On April 30, FUJIFILM Sonosite Chief Medical Officer Diku Mandavia, M.D. interviewed Dr. Kirk-Bayley for insights on using ultrasound to treat and manage COVID-19 patients. That interview can be found on Sonosite’s COVID-19 resource page, or you can read the full transcript. In addition to this interview, we asked Dr. Kirk-Bayley several follow-up questions regarding renal…
Ultrasound Vital for Women’s Healthcare in Rural Ghana
Dr. Carlye Jensen practises emergency and family medicine in Canada. She recently went on a mission for Ghana Rural Integrated Development (GRID), whose purpose is to provide basic medical care to the rural areas of northern Ghana, where many patients have no access to healthcare at all. Dr. Jensen’s team borrowed two Sonosite M-Turbos for the November 2019 mission, and provided us with a report on how she put the portable ultrasound machines to good use.
After landing in Ghana's capital Accra, we took a 12-hour bus ride to the village of Carpenter, where we are housed for our two-week…
Ultrasound Provides Answers for Rebuilding Lives in Nepal
Dr. Jesus Casado Cerrada, Internist at the Hospital Universitario de Getafe and Professor at the Universidad Europea, Madrid, Spain, has travelled to the Rasuwa district of Nepal to help a local NGO rebuild the region’s infrastructure following a severe earthquake in 2015. Dr. Casado explains:
“University colleagues from the architectural and engineering departments had already established successful projects in the village of Gatlang in Nepal. They returned from these trips saying there was a desperate need for better healthcare provision and asked if I could offer assistance…
The Role of Ultrasound in Pain Management
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has a significant role to play in pain management for patients around the world. Dr. Victor Mayoral Rojals, Consultant Anaesthetist and head of the pain unit at the Bellvitge University Hospital, in Barcelona, Spain, discusses the many advantages of ultrasound in his day-to-day practise.
My early experiences of using point-of-care ultrasound in pain management began in 2005, when I worked together with Dr. Xavier Sala-Blanch—a pioneer for using ultrasound in anaesthesia—to organise the first congress of the Catalan Society of Anaesthesia. He…
One Woman’s Mission to End Preventable Infant and Maternal Deaths in Somaliland
Midwife Edna Adan has always dreamt of building her own hospital. After training in London in the 1950s, she qualified as a midwife and returned to her home in Somaliland. Unfortunately, a protracted civil war meant that it was many years before her plan could be realised, and she had to leave her homeland. During the thirty-year civil war, Edna worked for the World Health Organisation (WHO) in many countries across Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, and was responsible for training midwives and traditional birth attendants in 22 countries. Edna shared her story of how ultrasound…
From the Front Line in the UK: A Talk with Dr. Justin Kirk-Bayley
For Sonosite’s ongoing series of interviews of physicians working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chief Medical Officer Diku Mandavia, M.D. interviewed Dr. Justin Kirk-Bayley in Guilford, England about his experiences fighting the coronavirus. You can watch the interview on our COVID-19 Ultrasound Resources site.
Dr. Mandavia:
As you know, we're in the middle of a global pandemic, and we have been trying to get viewpoints from around the world. As the pandemic continues, right now we're about 2.7 million cases around the world and nearly 200,000 deaths. Today we are interviewing…
The Role of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in COVID-19
ICU Management & Practise
Diku Mandavia, MD, FACEP, FRCPC, Chief Medical Officer at FUJIFILM Sonosite
Hospitals all over the world are working to rapidly expand their capacity to treat critically ill patients with COVID-19. To find out how hospitals on the frontlines of the pandemic are coping and the lessons learned that could help other hospitals prepare, FUJIFILM Sonosite’s Chief Medical Officer, Diku Mandavia, interviews Enrico Storti, the ICU Director/Unit Coordinator of the Emergency Department at Maggiore Hospital in Lodi, Italy.
The Role of POCUS in COVID-19,…
From the Front Line in New York: A Talk with Dr. Mangala Narasimhan
Mangala Narasimhan, D.O. is a pulmonary and critical care specialist from Long Island Jewish Medical Centre, in Long Island, New York. Dr. Narasimhan spoke with FUJIFILM Sonosite Chief Medical Officer Diku Mandavia, M.D. about how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted her hospital in the heart of New York's outbreak. You can watch the interview on our COVID-19 resource page.
Dr. Mandavia:
Today is March 26, 2020, and unfortunately, we have hit another milestone in the COVID-19 outbreak. Right now we are at over 82,000 cases in the United States, which is more than anywhere else in the…
Discussing the Use of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Evaluating COVID-19 Patients
DOTMed HealthCare Business News
Diku Mandavia, MD, FACEP, FRCPC, Chief Medical Officer at FUJIFILM Sonosite
Increasingly, hospitals are using point-of-care ultrasound to evaluate patients with COVID-19. To learn more, read the HealthCare Business News interview with Diku Mandavia, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of FUJIFILM Sonosite, Inc.
POCUS for Evaluating COVID-19, DotMed, Mandavia, March 2020.pdf
From the Frontlines of Italy: A Follow-Up Talk with Emergency Physician Enrico Storti
Dr. Enrico Storti is the Anaesthesia and ICU Director/Unit Coordinator of the Emergency Department at Maggiore Hospital in Lodi, Italy, near Milan. Lodi was hit very hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, and Dr. Storti is on the frontlines treating patients and helping to contain the outbreak.On March 17, FUJIFILM Sonosite Chief Medical Officer Diku Mandavia, M.D. interviewed Dr. Storti to gain a better understanding of the clinical situation in Italy. That interview can be found on Sonosite’s COVID-19 resource page, or you can read the full transcript. In addition to this interview, we asked Dr.…
Reinventing the ICU for COVID-19
Enrico Storti is the Anaesthesia and ICU Director/Unit Coordinator of the Emergency Department at Maggiore Hospital in Lodi, Italy. Lodi is located near Milan and the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Lodi was hit very hard by the pandemic, and Dr. Storti is on the frontlines treating patients and helping to contain the outbreak.Dr. FUJIFILM Sonosite Chief Medical Officer Diku Mandavia, M.D. interviewed Dr. Storti to gain a better understanding of the clinical situation in Italy. Storti discussed how his hospital has coped with the sudden surge of patients. He describes…