If you include the online stuff and the three or four days of hands-on, you could probably be pretty proficient within a week or two,” says Brian Dahn, Advanced Care Paramedic with Region of Durham Paramedic Services. “It was a little nerve-wracking because I’m an old medic. I come from a time when we were just ambulance drivers… But if I can do it, anyone can do it.”
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Christopher ‘CJ’ Miller
DPT, RMSK
The addition of ultrasound puts more weight in our ability to perform a really accurate clinical exam. If they can trust that you evaluate what’s happening really well, they’ll trust that you can get it better. ‘I’ve seen this tissue. You know what you’re talking about. Now I’m going to go ahead and fulfill this plan of care.’”
Mike Lampkin
Patient of CJ Miller
It’s great to have that instant feedback and be able to have the comparison of the two tendons on the left and the right,” says Mike. It made me more confident as far as my rehab goes, and be able to have a clear path forward and not have a guessing game of what exactly is going on.”
Ontario EMS
When we had the option through the technology to look inside and to actually assess what is going on, is there pathology, is there something dynamic happening right now… rather than an auscultation of the lungs that might tell us that, ‘Oh, there’s something in there that maybe sounds a little bit wet, maybe sounds a little bit junky, maybe sounds a little bit coarse.’ It’s now the identification of pneumonia, the identification of pneumothorax with great confidence, great certainty. We’re talking about sensitivity and specificity levels that are 99 and 97%, on par with CT scan,”
Christpher ‘CJ’ Miller
DPT, RSMK
A lot of our patients come to us really fearful about their pain,” says Dr. Miller. “Fearful that they’re not going to be able to do the things they love—like surf, or play with their kids, or get off their couch. I had a patient who came in who had an MRI, and their MRI showed a partial tear in their shoulder. All they are thinking about is, ‘There is a tear in my shoulder. This isn’t going to heal. I’m hosed.’”
Ontario EMS
I didn’t understand how detrimental it was to them,” says Michelle Fitzgerald, Primary Care Paramedic with Region of Durham Paramedic Services. “I didn’t understand that their dementia can get way worse and put them into delirium. A lot of the times when they go to hospital, they’ll come back with delirium, with bed sores, because [hospitals] don’t have the capacity to give them the same care they get in a long-term care home.”
Dr. Enrique Tang Villanueva
MD
I invite you to pick up an ultrasound machine, pick up a Clarius, see how intuitive it is, and use this tool because it really will change your ability to make decisions quickly, this is the way to be able to understand where you injected, what the injected volume is, whether or not there is a collection, whether or not there is a lesion.”
Ontario EMS
Paramedics have made a commitment to just be liquid, to fill all the cracks in that sidewalk of health care,” says Wade Macpherson, Deputy Chief, Professional Standards – Haliburton County Paramedic Service. “We have so many different examples of where patients have in the past needed to be transported to hospital to figure out if they needed to go to hospital. And that’s not sustainable.”
Ahmed Abdelaziz
MD
I need to know what really happens in real time under the skin and also, I wanted to have better safety margins for my patients,” he explains. “By investing in an ultrasound machine, I know exactly what is happening while doing the procedure and before and after it.”
Josuah Guttman
MD
The Clarius PAL HD3 is a really strong entry into the handheld ultrasound space. It’s a device that leans into being both a clinical and educational tool, with new AI features that make it genuinely useful for clinicians at any experience level.”