Here are two quick clinical examples of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) lung imaging and cardiac imaging using a GE Vscan Air device. The examples show an abnormal lung image with B-lines.
Ultrasound Imaging
This section includes echocardiography (echo), transthoracic echo (TTE), transesophageal echo (TEE), echo contrast, transducers, ultrasound software and point of care ultrasound (POCUS). Ultrasound uses sound waves to create images and software to reconstruct the images. The trend in ultrasound the past decade has been toward smaller, more compact system with more advanced imaging features and increased framerates, event for 3-D and 4-D ultrasound. A big trend starting around 2018 has been the addition of artificial intelligence (AI) to speed workflows, increase reproducibility of diagnostic images regardless of sonographer skill, and automate tedious tasks such as qualification, contouring, anatomical identification and labeling and auto completion of sections on final reports.
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Two examples of hand-held, point-of-care-ultrasound (POCUS) being used to get immediate medical imaging information from patients in underserved areas. Left, a Butterfly Network system using a probe and an app turns a smartphone into an ultrasound system to image a patient at a remote African clinic. Right, a GE vScan being used to image patients in a rural community in Indian as part of an American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) outreach program.
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