EFSUMB Newsletter
European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
Game Changer? Handheld Devices
An example of a handheld device from GE.
EFSUMB is producing a position paper on the role of handheld ultrasound devices which will be presented in part at the ESR/ EFSUMB Session at EUROSON 2017 Ljubljana, Slovenia together with an overview of the commercially available devices on the market. These miniature sized ultrasound equipment are the result of the rapid development of technology. It is now possible to use portable handheld scanners that can be operated on battery power and even transducers connected to a mobile phone, yet include conventional and often Doppler ultrasound features. EFSUMB will be looking at the strengths and the weaknesses of these devices and the common areas where they can achieve specific diagnosis and procedural aims to answer focused questions (e. g., does my patient have ascites?). The
position paper will be based on literature reviews. The attractiveness of handheld devices use in paediatric ultrasound is considered as well as its benefits for medical students. The benefits of the handheld devices in point of care ultrasound for use by e.g GPs on home visits, ambulance staff, nurses and physiotherapists as well as the current users of ultrasound scanners are discussed. Education and practical training will be considered, as well as the issues of documentation, image storage and data safety surrounding the handheld devices.
WFUMB CoE Project The WFUMB Center of Education in Nairobi, Kenya completed the following project under the leadership of Dr. Sudhir Vinayak, Chairman, Department of Radiology, Aga Khan University Hospital. It has been recently published in the UMB. This was a project to train 3 midwives who had never used ultrasound to identify high-risk pregnancies. Unique software was used to send lossless images by mobile phone using a modem. Transmission times were short and the quality of images transmitted was excellent. All reports were validated by two experienced radiologists at the main hospital. The individual midwives were 20 km, 120 km and 400 km away from the main study centre at the hospital. It shows with
Odd Helge Gilja (EFSUMB President and WFUMB Collaboration Committee) visiting Sudhir Vinayak in Nairobi with a trained sonographer present.
the proper education, oversight and mentoring a succesful programme can be created to improve healthcare. Hopefully, using this as a template, it can be shown that it will work on a larger scale. Vinayak S, Sande J, Nisenbaum H, Nolsoe CP. Training Midwives to Perform Basic Obstetric Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Rural Areas Using a Tablet Platform and Mobile Phone Transmission Technology – A WFUMB COE Project. Ultrasound Med Biol 43(10): 2125 – 2132, Oct 2017 This study can be reviewed: http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2017.05.024
EFSUMB website changes The updated EFSUMB website aims to provide an improved access point to all of the ultrasound courses, guidelines, interesting cases and industry news. Built on a new platform the site aims to offer the user better functionality through intuitive menus but using the familiar layout.
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The EFSUMB site will now also offer over 100 different language translations for all bulk text, making it a truly multi-lingual experience and enabling us to extend our reach to of the ultrasound community right across the world. The EFSUMB website will be released in time for our Congress EUROSON 2017 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Following on from our exciting website release, EFSUMB is proud to be developing a new and exciting APP to provide the most important Ultrasound news even when you are on the move. The Ultrasound APP by EFSUMB will display all up-to-date courses, congress informa-
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tion, abstracts, latest cases, Course books chapters, Guideline releases, Webinars and Industry news all from one point of access via your iPhone or Smartphone. Keep a look out for the announcement of the EFSUMB Ultrasound App available to download from Apple iStore and Google PlayStore – coming soon! To register for updates on the Ultrasound App – visit http://www.efsumb.org/appregister
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Join us at EUROSON 2017 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Next EUROSON Congress
Next WFUMB Congress
The next EFSUMB webinar 8 December, chaired by Paul Sidhu Pancreas – Mirko d’Onofrio Urogenital – Michele Bertolotto CEUS in tumour response – Nathalie Lassau
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