๐Ÿ‘คsohkamyung๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ89๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ28

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I will make the (likely unpopular) comment that point of care ultrasound (POCUS) doesn't have a large impact for Covid-19, because Covid-19 is primarily diagnosed via PCR of a nasopharyngeal swab, and pneumonia is primarily a clinical diagnosis confirmed by a chest X-ray. There are already portable chest X-ray machines in the ICU. However, if a patient develops fluid around their lung (pleural effusion), lung POCUS can be used to guide a needle into the fluid pocket and drain it (thoracentesis). This can help patients breathe better and is truly useful. Modern ICU's already have fancy portable ultrasound machines available, so the main difference in the handheld ultrasound versions is the lower price and inferior image quality.
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Initiatives like this need more love: http://www.echopen.org/

Why don't have a much more active/thriving medical hackers community?

๐Ÿ‘คcanada_dry๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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Talking with real doctors, POCUS as its called, definitely helps but a lot depends on the skill of the operator as Covid-19 disease is complicated and has multiple presentations. You can a sense of that in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5QJ5O3ldE0

The fundamentals of POCUS are good though. At my wife's hospital, disinfecting the CT suite after a Covid-19 patient is a real barrier to using it. POCUS doesn't have that problem. I think what needs to be done for POCUS is to make the diagnostic capability easier for non-radiology medical providers to use i.e. make the view more like a CT or MRI scan and less like looking through a straw. That's something the HN folks can very much help with.

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A few years ago someone I knew was in the hospital so I spent a lot of time there.

I observed an interesting hack.

They have these "bladder" ultrasound machines to check if a patient's bladder is full and how much.

What was interesting was that as far as I can tell, they were regular ultrasounds, but the "subject" was shown on the display as a yellowish color.

๐Ÿ‘คm463๐Ÿ•‘5y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

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> Iโ€™m not going in a second time just to do an ultrasound. I just take it in with me, and do everything I need to do in that one episode of care.

This is huge, as treating C19 patients requires full change of PPE each time you go into the room in many settings.

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Can anyone see the content of the article? What does it say?
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