Barcelona, Spain: If doctors in hospital emergency departments are trained to carry out ultrasound on patients with suspected deep vein thrombosis (DVT), they can nearly halve the time the patients ...
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is changing the way clinicians diagnose and manage patients by enabling real-time ultrasound exams directly at the bedside. Unlike traditional ultrasound, where a ...
Clinicians at UAB are using handheld ultrasound machines, known as point-of-care ultrasound, or POCUS, to identify soft-tissue infections, fluid accumulation in the joints and abdomen, gallbladder ...
One of the biggest daily challenges faced by healthcare providers is obtaining accurate diagnostic answers in a timely manner. Clinicians spend years training in physical diagnosis, mastering ...
A frequent concern among clinicians new to point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is the risk of malpractice. This fear often arises from equating POCUS with radiology-performed ultrasounds. Many worry that ...
Joanne is brought into the emergency department by an ambulance at her local community hospital in Oklahoma City. She is having serious trouble breathing. While the attending physician is unsure ...
If you think you may have deep vein thrombosis (DVT), the best thing you can do is call your doctor as soon as possible. There are several ways that they can figure out if you have this potentially ...
Co-authored by UCP Merchant Medicine's chief medical officer, the findings come on the heels of recent data showing remarkable increase in urgent care utilization, spending Summarized in a paper ...
Ultrasounds are among the most used imaging in healthcare. But some in the health IT industry see an alternative way of conducting ultrasounds that they say can help with issues from staffing ...