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Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has become an established tool for the rapid assessment and diagnosis of patients across a variety of medical disciplines, not least in the high-pressure environment of intensive care medicine.

The Economic Times Healthworld recently released a short documentary exploring how point-of-care ultrasound is proving beneficial in improving patient outcomes at Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore, one of the renowned multi-specialty hospitals located in the southern region of India.

Emergency doctor Dr. Didier Moens is in charge of rescue missions in the Centre Médical Héliporté (CMH) of Bra sur Lienne, near Liège in Belgium. He believes access to point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) on emergency helicopters is now essential for improving the care of critically ill patients:

Anniversaries are times to celebrate, but also times to reflect. At FUJIFILM Sonosite, we’re thrilled to recognise the one-year anniversary of the launch of Sonosite PX, our next generation point-of-care ultrasound system (POCUS) with the most advanced image clarity ever seen in a Sonosite system.

Veterinary patients can be such pigs.  At the Pittsburgh Zoo, they are occasionally lethargic, critically endangered warty pigs. 

The North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust serves approximately 700,000 residents of Cambridgeshire, South Lincolnshire, and the neighboring counties. This recently created trust, formed in April 2017, includes three hospitals—Hinchingbrooke, Peterborough City and Stamford, and Rutland—plus community clinics in Ely and Doddington.

West Virginia University Department of Emergency Medicine Ultrasound fellow, Kristine S. Robinson, M.D. is taking Point of Care Ultrasound (PoCUS) to the international level by residing in Metro Manila, Philippines for a month, equipped with a Sonosite Edge machine from Sonosite’s Global Health Programme. 

Mosul, one of Iraq’s largest cities, is slowly rebuilding its healthcare infrastructure after years of war. Dr. Henryk Pich is doing his part to help.

Pneumonia is a major cause of childhood mortality and morbidity globally – particularly in resource-poor environments – and diagnosis of pneumonia can be complex. The current gold standard diagnostic technique is a chest X-ray, looking for the presence or absence of areas of consolidation on the lungs. However X-ray facilities are not always available in remote locations.

When making a high investment in medical equipment it is important not only to compare the price and quality of each product, in these cases it begins to be necessary to analyse the total cost of ownership (TCO) during the useful life of the equipment, since it could happen that the indirect costs exceed the sale price, plus all the additional problems that can even lead to damage to the reputation of the hospital.

Dr. Kapil Gupta is a professor at the Anesthesia and Critical Care Department, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital (VMMC & SJH), which is a 3500-bed multispecialty tertiary care government hospital in New Delhi, India. Dr. Gupta has over 18 years of professional experience in Anaesthesiology, Pain, and Perioperative Medicine as well as Intensive Care Unit and Trauma Center care experience.

The mission of Partners in Health (PIH) is to provide a preferential option for the underprivileged in health care. By establishing long-term relationships with sister organisations, PIH strives to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them.