Portable Ultrasound for Remote Environments, Part I: Feasibility of Field Deployment

Nelson, Bret P.; Melnick, Edward R.; Li, James

doi:10.1016/j.jemermed.2009.09.006

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“…32 Assuming instant availability of a trained physician at any time to "tele-mentor," this method could be both accurate and feasible. [33][34][35][36][37][38][39] However, limitations include mentor availability, a need for high-bandwidth Internet or cellular connections to maintain image quality, and technical problems such as image freezing. 39,40 Its effectiveness in clinical use has not yet been studied in rural Canada.…”

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Barriers to point-of-care ultrasound use in rural emergency departments

Micks

Sue

Rogers

2016

CJEM

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Over the past few decades, point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) has come to play a major role in the practice of emergency medicine. Despite its numerous benefits, there has been a slow uptake of PoCUS use in rural emergency departments. Surveys conducted across Canada and the United States have identified a lack of equipment, training, funding, quality assurance, and an inability to maintain skills as major barriers to PoCUS use. Potential solutions include expanding residency training in ultrasound skills, extending funding for PoCUS training to rural physicians in practice, moving PoCUS training courses to rural sites, and creating telesonography training for rural physicians. With these barriers identified and solutions proposed, corrective measures must be taken so that the benefits of PoCUS are extended to patients in rural Canada where, arguably, it has the greatest potential for benefit when access to advanced imaging is not readily available.

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confidence: 99%

Barriers to point-of-care ultrasound use in rural emergency departments

Micks

Sue

Rogers

2016

CJEM

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“…[130,131] Increasing use of this technology is being reported by the US military, particularly by remote special forces medics in Afghanistan and at small remote receiving centers. [132,133] Disaster medicine has used ultrasound in the field and in hospitals when other resources are overwhelmed or unavailable.…”

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Wilderness medicine

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Bennett

2014

World Journal of Emergency Medicine

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“…In practice, however, one sees that major technological development has occurred, including high-power efficient pocket-controllers [60] and portable controllers for remote locations [61] [62]. Programmable, low-cost machines are needed, as well as those for real-time clinical use, and to this end efforts in research and development are currently being carried out [63].…”

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Application of ultrasound in medicine part ii: the ultrasonic transducer and its associated electronics

2013

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This paper introduces the reader to a review and analysis of various ultrasound (us) applications in the medical field. First, the transducer is shown, along with a diagram of the basic electronics that it uses to generate and receive signals that allow the reconstruction of images, for medical purposes. Also, us practical uses in medical therapy is shown. This subject is addressed by combining the physical principles involved in the us application, with the implemented technology and the modes of operation for non-invasive studies of pathologies related to brain, heart, and eyes such as injuries, tumors and hematomas. The methodology used in this article also suggests an analysis method for the us scientific and technological research principles combined for their implementation in medical applications.Keywords: ultrasonic transducer, piezoelectric, transmitter, receiver, converter, modes ResumenEn este trabajo se presenta al lector una revisión y análisis de diferentes aplicaciones del ultrasonido (us) en el campo médico. Inicialmente se muestra el transductor y un esquema de su electrónica básica asociada usada para emitir y adquirir las señales que permiten la reconstrucción de las imágenes, para efectos médicos y también la aplicación del us para terapia; la temática se aborda conjugando los principios físicos asociados a la aplicación del us con la tecnología implementada y sus modos de operación, para estudios no invasivos de patologías relacionadas con el cerebro, el corazón, los ojos y lesiones tales como tumores y hematomas. La metodología implementada en este artículo sugiere también un método de análisis de los principios científicos del us e investigación tecnológica asociadas para su concreción en las aplicaciones médicas.

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Portable Ultrasound for Remote Environments, Part I: Feasibility of Field Deployment

Cited by 77 publications

References 38 publications

Barriers to point-of-care ultrasound use in rural emergency departments

Barriers to point-of-care ultrasound use in rural emergency departments

Wilderness medicine

Application of ultrasound in medicine part ii: the ultrasonic transducer and its associated electronics

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