POCUS Profile: Dr. José Luis Vázquez Martínez
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Doctors working in the eight-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital in Madrid use point-of-care ultrasound extensively to evaluate the condition of critically ill children, and find it essential to their work. Dr. José Luis Vázquez Martínez, Head of Post-Surgical Critical Care at Hospital Ramón y Cajal has over 25 years’ experience in pediatric intensive care medicine. He recently described how his department uses ultrasound with some of the smallest patients. …
POCUS Profile: Dr. Xavier Sala-Blanch
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Point-of-care ultrasound is playing an important role in the anesthesiology department at Spain’s Hospital Clinic of Barcelona. Dr. Xavier Sala-Blanch, Senior Doctor and Head of Section in the hospital’s Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation and Associate Professor of Anatomy in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Barcelona, discussed how the use of ultrasound technology has increased in recent years, and the benefits it offers to the clinicians and patients. …
POCUS Profile: Dr. Sameer Bhandari
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Dr. Sameer Bhandari, a Consultant in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Pinderfields General Hospital in Wakefield, England, plays an integral role in the company’s Complete Ultrasound-guided Regional Anesthesia Education (CURE) course. Here, he describes how he teaches ultrasound-guided regional blocks to physicians in the UK. …
Sonosite iViz Helps Make Dialysis More Comfortable
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Point-of-care ultrasound is an essential tool for busy nephrology departments, and dialysis units in particular. Dr. Christoph C. Haufe, clinical lead at an outpatient dialysis center in Erfurt, Germany, discusses the use of the technique in daily practice and his involvement in ultrasound training. …
Sonosite Ultrasound on board the AVC Stroke Bus
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2016 saw ARS Île-de-France and France AVC Île-de-France set up the AVC bus – or stroke bus – a mobile educational and screening campaign designed to help people minimise their risk of suffering a stroke. At each venue across Yvelines, the public had the opportunity to learn more about strokes and to undergo tests to establish their own stroke risk. …
POCUS Profile: Dr. Nathaniel Meuser-Herr
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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. …
Emergency Medicine supported by Ultrasound
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Point-of-care (POC) ultrasound is playing an increasing role in emergency medicine, providing the tools to help physicians rapidly and efficiently assess a wide range of patients. …
When time is of the essence with Fujifilm Sonosite Ultrasound
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Point-of-care ultrasound systems were originally designed for military applications, dealing with emergencies in a battlefield setting, and it is not surprising that they now play such a pivotal role in emergency vehicles around the world. Dr Ramón de Elías Hernandez, head of on-call doctors at SAMUR, Madrid’s municipal emergency service, describes the advantages that point-of-care ultrasound brings to his everyday life. …
Point-of-care ultrasound with a little flare
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FUJIFILM Sonosite is delighted to have recently become an Official Supplier of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship (BSB) 2018, providing an iViz system to support the first-class care of riders and teams competing in the races. …
Portable Ultrasound Helps Researchers Understand Sharks
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Every year the world's oceans lose roughly 100 million sharks due to human hunting. The big problem? Scientists don't know how to manage the population back. …
One-day training for topical regional anaesthesia support
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On the 19th of March 2018, the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank welcomed 40 delegates to participate in a workshop on regional anaesthesia, the largest event planned for the region this year. …
When IV Insertion Seems Impossible
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Any medical professional with hospital experience knows how crucial peripheral IV access can be. Getting fluids and medications into a critically ill or injured patient can make or break the effectiveness of their treatment. …
Congratulations Vanessa for completing the hottest London Marathon ever in 5:52:11!
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To all you eagle-eyed marathon spotters, did anyone catch sight of Wonder Woman in amongst the trees, dinosaurs, superheroes and even a bottle of beer! That was our UK clinical application specialist Vanessa Wickens, as she joined over 30,000 runners to fulfil her dream of running in this great event, all while raising money for a fantastic cause. …
Floating Doctors: Remembering a Foetal Ultrasound from Years Ago
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by Dr. Ben LaBrot, founder of Floating DoctorsAs of this writing, my wife is pregnant with our first child, and the novelty has long since worn off. After looking after so many other people’s pregnancies, it’s a novel experience to be on the other end of the ultrasound probe, as it were. Complicated pregnancies are more than the miracle of creating new life—they can be a long, stressful waiting game fraught with nasty surprises, difficult challenges and uncertainty… as I now understand better than I would like. …
Sonosite Ultrasound Lends Help to Humanitarian Efforts in Mosul, Iraq
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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. …
Sonosite Edge Helps Diagnose Sports Injuries
Dr Adam Garnett, a sports and exercise medicine consultant at the Jersey Sports Medicine Clinic, divides his time between treating rugby players suffering from acute trauma injuries and triathletes and runners with overuse injuries. He explained how the use of point-of-care ultrasound has changed the way he manages sports injuries. …
Sonosite Ultrasound Assists Sports Medicine Doctor
Point-of-care ultrasound is an essential tool for Dr Mark Ridgewell, an early pioneer of sport and exercise medicine (SEM). Through the course of his career, Mark has worked with many amateur and professional sportsmen and women, beginning with rugby and including three years with England Cricket and eight years with the Wales football team. The first consultant to be registered in SEM in Wales, he continues to work with the LTA and WTA women’s tennis tour every summer, and with Welsh Olympic and Commonwealth athletes across many sports under the Sport Wales banner. …
Hand-carried Ultrasound Hits the Mark for Regional Blocks
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Hand-carried ultrasound systems from Sonosite are helping to guide regional blocks more accurately and more effectively at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, according to anaesthetists Dr Stef Oosthuysen and Dr Morné Wolmarans. Stef explained: “Guiding regional blocks by peripheral nerve stimulation is an indirect method that is not always very efficient; frequently the anaesthetist performing the block might get wonderful stimulation but still a poor block. …