Patients who received a focused ultrasound treatment to aid drug delivery increased their odds of surviving the deadliest form of brain cancer by nearly 40%, according to a study led by University of ...

Department of Neonatology and NICU, Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, Beijing, China Currently, lung ultrasound ...

Cannulation is a procedure of inserting a flexible tube (catheter) into the blood vessels to administer medication or to monitor hemodynamics. Inserting catheters into the major veins near the ...

The POCUS-guided, percutaneous bedside biopsy program had a diagnostic yield of 86.3% and a complication rate of 0.6%. Point-of-care ultrasound-guided thoracic (POCUS-THOR) biopsies performed in an ...

Ultrasound is safe, quick and repeatable, and gives real-time dynamic images relevant to several aspects of airway management that includes the risk for aspiration. Effective management of the upper ...

Lung point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has become an essential tool in hospital medicine, offering rapid bedside assessment of respiratory pathologies, often outperforming chest radiography. 4 Lung ...

Imagine the chest as a sealed box with the lungs inside, gently inflating and deflating with every breath. But after a serious injury—like a stabbing or gunshot—air can leak into that box from outside ...

Introduction: Emergency rescue scenes and pre-hospital emergency stages commonly encounter trauma victims. Life-saving measures must be taken at the scene if a trauma patient has pneumothorax; if the ...

Ultrasound therapy is emerging as a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. It uses ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier, which can help with drug delivery and may also reduce plaques from ...

If you are a parent, then you probably first laid eyes on your child through an ultrasound procedure—the technology that uses high-frequency sound waves to view soft tissue. It is undeniably one of ...

A new survey by the European Society of Paediatric Research (ESPR) has examined how widely lung ultrasound is used in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) across Europe to better understand what it ...