Emergency Physician Promotes POCUS Education in Laotian Capital
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 of the nonprofit group Health Frontiers. Two years ago, Health Frontiers began an emergency medicine residency training program. To help develop this program, Dr. Dan traveled with two emergency ultrasound fellows and two educational fellows to Laos to provide a survey course in emergency ultrasound. His team borrowed four M-Turbos for this…
POCUS Profile: Dr. Nathaniel Meuser-Herr
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.
Dr. Nathaniel Meuser-Herr led a University of Minnesota research project to investigate the potential of point-of-care ultrasound as an alternative tool for the diagnosis of pneumonia in paediatric patients in Uganda, and…
POCUS Profile: Dr. Rajendra Sahoo
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We recently interviewed Dr. Rajendra Sahoo, Senior Consultant Pain & Palliative care at Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar to learn about the various clinical aspects and the utility of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in his routine professional practice.
When did you start using ultrasound in your professional practice?
I was introduced to the world of ultrasound since the early days of my residency training in 2008 at Mumbai. It was the first hands-on program that fueled the zeal in me for further upgradation of…
Consider All Ultrasound Machine Costs of Ownership
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.In recent medical meetings, the TCO and the indirect costs that constitute it are being debated. Some of these costs to consider are technical service and repairs, although software…
POCUS Profile: Dr. Kapil Gupta
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.
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Dr. Gupta has been using portable ultrasound systems in his clinical practice since 2010 and strongly believes…
Sonosite Systems Help Physicians Deliver Better Patient Care at KDAH, Mumbai
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The Economic Times Healthworld recently released a short documentary exploring how point-of-care ultrasound improves patient outcomes at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai, one of the best multi-speciality hospitals located in the financial capital region of India. In the documentary, Healthworld interviewed the point-of-care physicians at the hospital about their experiences with POCUS.
The physicians at KDAH are currently using the Sonosite M-Turbo, S-Nerve…
Dr. David Chaparro - Bringing clarity in the most difficult environments
Dr. David Chaparro, in addition to working as an emergency doctor at the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid, also participates in humanitarian aid projects in some of the poorest countries in the world, treating patients, training other professionals in the use of bedside ultrasound (POCUS), and demonstrating how it improves patient care in the most difficult settings:
“I was lucky to discover ultrasound quite early in my career, now I use it every day in my daily work. It is a fundamental tool that complements the anamnesis and the physical examination, guiding the request for…
Setting Up a Point-of-Care Ultrasound Programme in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Drawing on Dr. Jae Kim’s experience with implementing and leading POCUS programmes in two U.S. children’s hospitals, this article provides a five-step roadmap to adoption of this imaging modality to improve the safety and quality of care in the NICU. Physician training, the most active uses, and opportunities for POCUS in neonatal medicine and case examples are discussed. The article also provides guidance on selecting a point-of-care ultrasound system for neonatology.
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Solving revenue capture for POCUS – The importance of workflow management
HealthCare Business News sat down with Dr. John Hipskind, ultrasound GME director and ultrasound fellowship director at Kaweah Delta Medical Centre, one of the first sites to use Sonosite Synchronicity™ workflow manager. Dr. Hipskind discusses the advantages of point-of-care ultrasound, from reducing phantom scans, to easing credentialing and QA processes, and improving revenue at his facility.
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POCUS Profile: Dr. Pradeep Suryawanshi
Dr. Pradeep Suryawanshi, Professor & Head, Department of Neonatology at BVU Medical College, Pune, India has 15 years of experience in field of neonatology. He is the first person to commence point-of-care neonatal ultrasound and neonatal functional echocardiography courses in India. He recently shared his views about how the use of point-of-care ultrasound has made a significant impact in his routine clinical practise.Back in 2007, was the first time I ever handled the Sonosite ultrasound system in India and that was like magic embracing me and enlightening me with a confirmation of all…
Ultrasound Critical for Women's Health in Sierra Leone
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.
PIH has been working in Sierra Leone since 2014, upon an invitation from the government to help end West Africa’s historic Ebola epidemic. While leading efforts to treat Ebola patients and contain the spread, PIH made a long-term commitment to support the government in revitalizing the country’s public health sector and…
POCUS PROFILE: Dr Amjad Maniar
Dr. Amjad Maniar is a consultant anaesthesiologist at People Tree Hospital in Bengaluru, India. He spoke with Sonosite about his journey from using landmark techniques to ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia.
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Back in early 2000, when I was a resident studying in Bengaluru, I was quite reluctant to incorporate regional anaesthesia into my practise. Those were the days of the landmark technique, and nerve stimulators were strictly the guarded property of the scarce enthusiast. For a trainee like me, struggling to find his wings in a difficult specialty, learning to…
Radiologist Brings Ultrasound to the Barrios
Dr. David Johnsen is a diagnostic radiologist working with medical missions to the Dominican Republic. His team borrowed a Sonosite M-Turbo through Sonosite’s Global Loaner Programme for a recent mission. Dr. Johnsen submitted this report of his experiences in the Caribbean country.
Our medical mission team is organised through Second Presbyterian Church in Roanoke, Virginia. We are one of about 30 medical teams that participate in the mission of Solid Rock International (SRI). SRI is a nonprofit Christian ministry that operates in the Dominican Republic (DR), based in San Juan de la…
Diving Deep with POCUS: Ultrasound and Air Embolism
Costantino Balestra, Professor of Physiology at Haute Ecole Bruxelles-Brabant in Belgium, uses point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in environments that could not be more different from a typical hospital setting. His expertise lies in studying the effects of extreme conditions on the human body, including temperatures, altitudes, and ambient pressures found in deep oceans.
One of his areas of research has focused on evaluating the formation of vascular gas emboli (VGE) in divers after they have resurfaced from high-pressure depths. While the presence of these air bubbles in the heart is a…
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…