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Meet The Parents: AI Helps Take The Stress Out Of Fetal Ultrasound

Amy Kover
April 09, 2019

Whenever Dr. Ralf Menkhaus prepares to administer future parents their first fetal ultrasound, he knows the pressure is on: Equal parts thrilled and anxious, expectant parents are desperate to catch a glimpse of their unborn child. Yet, as a fetal medicine specialist, Menkhaus’ top priority is capturing crucial information about the health of the fetus. He’s looking for evidence, for instance, of conditions like spina bifida, a neural tube defect that affects the spinal cord.

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Ultrasound in the life of a Broome-based midwife

Natalie Filatoff
December 12, 2018
With 13 years and counting in the Broome Aboriginal Medical Service (BRAMS), Tamsen Prunster, a second-generation registered nurse and midwife is the trusted go-to for a wide community of expectant and new mums. In a practice that usually has 50-60 pregnant women on its books, Prunster says ultrasound is an indispensable tool for checking in on babies in utero. When invited to extend her ultrasound knowledge and apply for the 2018 Zedu-GE Rural and Remote Ultrasound Scholarship, Prunster didn’t hesitate and wrote the winning application.
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Their Favorite Thing: Why This Alpine Valley Is Alive With The History Of Ultrasound

Amy Kover
August 31, 2018

Nestled in an emerald valley surrounded by snowcapped Alpine peaks, the village of Zipf, Austria, looks like scenery plucked from a travel brochure. A stroll through the 600-person town reveals such charming sites as a church with an onion-shaped steeple, the Zipfer brewery and plenty of sheep grazing on pristine blades of grass.

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Healthcare

Watch This: A Twist On The Doppler Effect Opens New Vistas On Tiny Hearts

P D Olson
May 25, 2018
Surgeons need steady hands. If you’re Wolfgang Arzt, you also need nerves of steel.
Arzt performs heart surgery on unborn babies, inserting a needle into the mother’s womb and carefully pushing it through a tiny valve in the fetus’ heart that’s just 2 millimeters in diameter, or about as wide as a pinhead. Then he perforates the valve. “If I go 1 or 2 millimeters too far, I tear off the vessel and everything is over,” he says from his office at Kepler University Hospital in Austria, where as head of prenatal care he has overseen more than 140 such procedures.
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Handheld ultrasound aids patient care, prehospital and in the air

Natalie Filatoff
May 24, 2018
Airborne within five minutes of receiving an emergency call, New Zealand’s Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter service is equipped with life rafts, stretchers, portable oxygen, medical packs, a humidicrib, a Breeze Eastern winch with 270kg (595 pounds)  lifting capacity, GPS, radio directional finders, Nitesun helicopter searchlights, night-vision goggles and its latest investment — a handheld, pocket-sized ultrasound from GE Healthcare called Vscan Extend.
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Medical Imaging

Little Wonders: Neonatal Surgeon Captures Stunning Images With 4D Ultrasound

Liza Smith
March 29, 2018
A couple years ago, neonatal surgeon Jin-Chung Shih was preparing to treat a pair of twins still snug in their mother’s womb. The babies suffered from twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, a rare but serious complication that occurs when there is an imbalance in the blood flow between identical twins who share a placenta. He had to decide whether to operate on the twins in the womb.
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Augmented reality

Change Of Heart: This Augmented Reality System Could Help Ultrasound Trainees Find Their Target

Kristin Kloberdanz
January 10, 2018
Human hearts, as most schoolchildren know, are located in the upper left side of the chest. But under the skin, things get murkier. In fact, medical workers occasionally confuse the heart with another organ when conducting an ultrasound scan, even when they are in the right location.
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Game Changer: How 1 Doctor Is Using A $10 Video Game Chip To Revolutionize Ultrasounds

Dorothy Pomerantz
December 19, 2017
One day last spring at a hospital in North Carolina, Dr. Joshua Broder prepared to examine a 7-month-old patient while she slept in her mother’s arms. Doctors suspected she had hydrocephalus — a buildup of fluid in the brain that is quite dangerous and that normally requires surgery to drain.
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This Software Helps Doctors Treat the Tiniest Hearts

Maggie Sieger
December 19, 2017
Over the last decade, Dr. Ferran Rosés i Noguer, head of the pediatric cardiology department at Hospital Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona, Spain, has dedicated his efforts to studying his tiny patients’ hearts to help them get better.
This year, Rosés got his hands on a new ultrasound system that has changed the way he is able to care for patients like David, who was born with a congenital heart defect.
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7 Ways GE Is Contributing To Indonesia’s Healthcare Industry

August 26, 2017
With the fourth largest population in the world and a growing economy with a rising middle class, Indonesia presents one of the fastest growing healthcare systems in the world.
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