Sonosite Global Health: iViz in The Gambia
Sonosite Global Health: iViz in The Gambia
<p begin="00:00:02.140" end="00:00:04.450" tts:origin="0% 0%">- We are here in the Gambia.</p>
<p begin="00:00:04.450" end="00:00:06.580" tts:origin="0% 0%">We've been working in this<br />small town just outside</p>
<p begin="00:00:06.580" end="00:00:09.460" tts:origin="0% 0%">of Banjul called Tanji with<br />the Lighthouse Medical Mission</p>
<p begin="00:00:09.460" end="00:00:10.670">from Santa Monica.</p>
<p begin="00:00:10.670" end="00:00:13.440">Fujifilm company's<br />subsidiary, Sonosite, which is</p>
<p begin="00:00:13.440" end="00:00:16.190" tts:origin="0% 0%">the maker of portable<br />ultrasounds, bedside ultrasounds,</p>
<p begin="00:00:17.030" end="00:00:21.040" tts:origin="0% 0%">has been very kind to loan<br />an ultrasound machine to us</p>
<p begin="00:00:21.040" end="00:00:22.630">to use while we're here in Africa.</p>
<p begin="00:00:22.630" end="00:00:25.980">It greatly improves the<br />diagnostic abilities that we have</p>
<p begin="00:00:25.980" end="00:00:29.290">and it was very useful this<br />morning when we first got</p>
<p begin="00:00:29.290" end="00:00:30.730">there a little before nine.</p>
<p begin="00:00:30.730" end="00:00:34.870">The local people, which are<br />actually dependent on fishing</p>
<p begin="00:00:34.870" end="00:00:38.100">for their living, brought in<br />a young man, 22 years old,</p>
<p begin="00:00:38.100" end="00:00:41.210">who had been in the water<br />and between two boats</p>
<p begin="00:00:41.210" end="00:00:44.450">and apparently they were hit by waves</p>
<p begin="00:00:44.450" end="00:00:46.920">and essentially crushed<br />him or squeezed him</p>
<p begin="00:00:46.920" end="00:00:50.310">between those two boats, so<br />we took a very quick look</p>
<p begin="00:00:50.310" end="00:00:52.400">at him and the ultrasound is able</p>
<p begin="00:00:52.400" end="00:00:53.550">to confirm a lot of things.</p>
<p begin="00:00:53.550" end="00:00:55.950">He had a lot of left-sided<br />chest pain where his thorax</p>
<p begin="00:00:55.950" end="00:00:57.230">had been injured.</p>
<p begin="00:00:57.230" end="00:01:01.200">So we did a fast scan,<br />checking his belly first.</p>
<p begin="00:01:01.200" end="00:01:04.530">We found that in his abdominal<br />cavity there was no blood</p>
<p begin="00:01:04.530" end="00:01:06.900">from like a ruptured spleen.</p>
<p begin="00:01:06.900" end="00:01:08.870">His spleen looked okay.</p>
<p begin="00:01:08.870" end="00:01:10.770">His kidneys looked okay on the ultrasound.</p>
<p begin="00:01:10.770" end="00:01:12.290">His liver seemed normal.</p>
<p begin="00:01:12.290" end="00:01:14.870">His diaphragm, which we could<br />see quite clearly on both</p>
<p begin="00:01:14.870" end="00:01:16.980">the left and the right were actually okay.</p>
<p begin="00:01:16.980" end="00:01:19.780">We got a very good look at<br />the bottom of his left lung,</p>
<p begin="00:01:19.780" end="00:01:22.182">where he had a lot of<br />pain, but he didn't appear</p>
<p begin="00:01:22.182" end="00:01:24.290">to have any fluid or blood in there.</p>
<p begin="00:01:24.290" end="00:01:27.660">He was actually thin and<br />muscular, so it was not hard</p>
<p begin="00:01:27.660" end="00:01:30.220">to tell where he had fractured his ribs.</p>
<p begin="00:01:30.220" end="00:01:31.580">So that was comforting.</p>
<p begin="00:01:31.580" end="00:01:34.620">It's gratifying to be<br />able to reassure somebody</p>
<p begin="00:01:34.620" end="00:01:38.690">that things are okay or are gonna be okay.</p>
<p begin="00:01:38.690" end="00:01:43.320">If I had not had that there,<br />I clinically would have said,</p>
<p begin="00:01:43.320" end="00:01:45.030">well, it's really hard to tell.</p>
<p begin="00:01:45.030" end="00:01:47.430">It's improved our<br />diagnostic ability greatly,</p>
<p begin="00:01:47.430" end="00:01:49.630">it's a pleasure to use,<br />it's user friendly.</p>
<p begin="00:01:49.630" end="00:01:52.450">They've been very kind to<br />loan this expensive piece</p>
<p begin="00:01:52.450" end="00:01:55.890">of equipment for us for 10<br />days and we truly appreciate it</p>
<p begin="00:01:55.890" end="00:01:56.723">and thank them.</p>