POCUS in Pre-hospital Settings: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Sonosite blog: POCUS for Pre-Hospital Care

Time is of the essence in an emergency situation, and may be the difference between life and death.  Ambulance crews on the front line must decide rapidly whether or not a patient is suffering from a life-threatening condition requiring specialist treatment, and point-of-care ultrasound can provide vital guidance. 

Ultrasound and Changes in Value-Based Care - Part 1

Uncertainty – especially in economics, government, or healthcare - can be hard to handle. Combine a little bit of uncertainty in Washington D.C. and the medical community and you’ll have a window into 2017, a time when the future of the Affordable Health Care Act and the health sector is in flux.
 
Is there a silver lining here? We believe so.

The Changing Face of Anaesthesia

Dr. Martin Zoremba (PhD)

With constant pressure on healthcare providers to improve the quality and efficiency of care while reducing costs, standardisation of patient management is a logical step towards more streamlined services. Anaesthesia is one area that is beginning to embrace this approach, combining regional nerve blocks with ultrasound guidance to improve both the quality and effectiveness of patient care while minimizing hospital stays.

Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Using Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Blocks

thyroid surgery without the use of general anesthetic

A Sonosite SII point-of-care ultrasound system recently played a key role in an innovative procedure of thyroid surgery without the use of general anaesthetic.
Dr. Rüdiger Eichholz, a consultant anaesthetist working for private practise in Stuttgart, Germany, explained the case.

Point-of-care Ultrasound Helps Streamline Management of Cardiac Arrest

Point-of-care Ultrasound Helps Streamline Management of Cardiac Arrest

Point-of-care ultrasound plays an important role in the management of cardiac arrest. 

Dr. Matthew Reed, an Emergency Medicine consultant at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, explains why Sonosite ultrasound is used to help shorten the path to treatment for cardiac arrest victims in emergency and pre-hospital medicine.