Written by James Day, RDCS Ever feel like a milkman talking on a payphone? I do. Just got this FDA announcement in my mailbox: “FEB 07 2020 FDA authorizes Marketing of the first...
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POCUS Brings Aid to the Hospitalist
Hospital medicine formed to fill a void that had evolved. Before the busyness of administration and insurance compliance, primary care physicians used to visit and physically...
An Empowering Force Behind Healthcare
Florence Nightingale. She was a pioneer of public health and the founder of modern nursing. Born May 12, 1820, in Florence, Italy, Nightingale defied her prearranged destiny to...
Honoring the Patient’s Experience
Patient care remains to be front-page news in our current norm. No matter how the world changes, the experience of being a patient is one every person hopes to come out on the...
Mental Health Care for Frontline Heroes
"We are scared. We're trying to fight for everyone else's life, but we also fight for our lives as well because we're also at the highest risk of exposure," said Dr. Arabia...
POCUS Tracks COVID-19
Our society is one that lives in perpetual movement. In contrast, COVID-19 has provoked our world to come to a grinding halt. Social distancing, school closings, business...
The Midwife’s View with POCUS
April 7th is World Health Day, a day where the global community of healthcare professionals take pause and acknowledge the contributions and needs of a specific sector in...
Introduction to Chest POCUS
Victor V Rao MBBS, DMRD, RDMS Chest ultrasound was not explored to its fullest potential for several decades, even though it was introduced into clinical practice more than 50...
COVID-19 and the Role of POCUS
Back to COVID-19 Main Page By Victor V Rao MBBS, DMRD, RDMS Statement Update April 20, 2020 The role of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) lung has been established, and the lung...
The Core of POCUS
"To do the ultrasound, you have to touch your patient. It's like having X-ray vision during your physical exam," Jason Bowman, a fourth-year medical student planning a career in...