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Wearable Ultrasound for Deep Tissue Monitoring

Medagadget

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have created a wearable ultrasound system that can monitor deep tissues, as far as 16.5 Ultrasound-enabled wearables are enjoying a moment, with a variety of these technologies emerging recently. inches) below the surface of the body.

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SGEM#415: Buckle Down for some Ultrasound to Diagnosis Distal Forearm Fractures

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Casey currently splits his time […] The post SGEM#415: Buckle Down for some Ultrasound to Diagnosis Distal Forearm Fractures first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. or there is a portable bedside ultrasound machine in the next room ready to go. He is also a fully-fledged ultrasonographer. Reference: Snelling et al.

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Biodegradable Ultrasound Implant Helps Chemo Reach Brain

Medagadget

Researchers at the University of Connecticut have developed an ultrasound implant that can assist in opening the blood brain barrier to allow chemotherapy to enter and treat brain cancer. The researchers combined this with biodegradable polymers to create the ultrasound implant, which can be seen in the image above.

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Ultrasound-Equipped Bra Monitors for Breast Cancer

Medagadget

Researchers at MIT have developed a wearable ultrasound system that is intended to allow women at high risk of breast cancer to perform an ultrasound scan on themselves at home, and may also let patients with early-stage malignancy or suspicious lesions to monitor how they are progressing.

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SGEM#469: You Take My Breath Away – D-dimer for Ruling out PE in High-Risk Patients

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

She is the cofounder of FOAMcast and a pulmonary embolism and implementation science researcher. Dr. Westafer serves as the Social Media Editor and a research methodology editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine. Chest x-ray shows no pneumonia or pneumothorax and bedside ultrasound reveals no B-lines or effusion.

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Ultrasound of the Month: No Definitive Yolk Sac, No Definitive IUP!

Taming the SRU

A bedside ultrasound is completed to assess the location of the pregnancy. A radiology performed ultrasound is ordered and has similar findings– Impression: no definitive IUP with a small amount of free fluid within physiologic limits. Laboratory evaluation reveals a hemoglobin and hematocrit of 12.6/37.1

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Research Roundup (Perth live edition)

First 10 EM

The guests helped select the papers, which means they are just as random as usual. […] The post Research Roundup (Perth live edition) appeared first on First10EM.