It facilitates the daily practice of seeing patients within the clinic, treating them with percutaneous techniques such as biopsies, even definitive treatments such as cryoablation vacuum excision, and then obviously intraoperatively. I think it’s just an absolutely invaluable tool. I think once someone starts using it, they’ll feel lost without it. It’s that important.”
We’re in the post-Covid era and patients are already waiting long pits of time. And that whole experience for a physician to then get a requisition, to then go to get it done by a technician, to then be read by a radiologist, to then be transcribed, to then get me the results, to then the patient making a new follow-up visit is weeks to sometimes months. So, to me, it’s a one-stop-shop, the patient comes, I lay them on the table, it’s part of my physical exam, it’s just an extension. It’s simply made my practice more efficient. So, rather than having to visit the patient two or three times, I can do either all of my discussion, counseling, and treatment in one visit or maybe two. That then translates to the patient, to our practice, and being able to try and catch up to that wait list that we all are dealing with.”
Handheld ultrasound has made an incredible difference to rural physicians where we don’t have CT scans, where we don’t have diagnostic ultrasound, and it has really leveled the playing field in terms of rural patients receiving the same level of care that you can get in the city,” she explains. “Ultrasound has helped me save lives. It gives me the joy of diagnostic certainty so I can treat patients immediately.”
When ultrasound is in your lab coat and you can pull it out of your pocket and you can take your phone out and suddenly get this great exam, you’ll just find you’re using it a lot more,” he explains. “I tend to use a phased array almost exclusively because I can cover the chest, I can cover the thorax, I can cover the abdomen, I can cover the retroperitoneum, I can cover the pelvis and at least nudge myself in the right direction.”
I was by sheer luck pushed into learning about ultrasound technology and it’s done so many amazing things for me personally, but also for the patients I take care of and the residents I train,” says Dr. Cook. “Many physicians think it’s a fantasy to be able to walk up to a patient and immediately look inside them and know what’s wrong with them. But it’s not a fantasy. That’s exactly what ultrasound technology does today.”
A lot of really, really good surgeons don’t think they need to use ultrasound, but I’ve learned that it’s a tool that all of us could use to do a better job,” he says. “I started using ultrasound when I saw that surgeons in other parts of the world were far head of us. They were using it to analyze the structure of tissues, tendons, muscles, and ligaments prior to administering orthobiologics treatments and were achieving better results.”
Especially for long and complicated procedures, the addition of the Power Fan has been absolutely invaluable. Patients are safer, practitioners are happier, and we can deliver exceptional predictability and safety in our procedures to get better outcomes. It’s simply brilliant,”
I do believe that the Clarius probably has the nicest resolution of the handheld units that are out there for cardiac imaging. Honestly, it really surprised me. I mean, we could see all the heart chambers we needed to and more. We were able to do the short axis, long axis, four-chamber view, so that really, really surprised me. We were very quickly able to answer the binary questions that we usually do with point-of-care ultrasound.”
For me, it’s really amazing. To have ultrasound in your pocket, it’s like gold for us, because you have all the technology with great quality of images. It’s really light. It’s cheap compared to classical machines. The quality is great. You can record the images, send them to your Cloud. So, for us, it’s like a revolution.”
I asked my network and came across Dr. Alexis Delobaux. I heard nothing but good things about him and that’s why I wanted to find out more about his practice and to know how he works,” she says. “I discovered he uses ultrasound guidance because he talks a lot about it on social networks. His technique is revolutionary and I feel the procedure will be safer. It’s what motivated me to book the procedure.”
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