Medical Equipments Reviews

GE Healthcare announced today the availability of vscan, a new visualization tool pocket developed to provide physicians a means of imaging at the point of care. From the approximate size of a smartphone vscan incorporates a powerful ultrasound technology which uses clever hands of doctors means immediate and non-invasive to obtain visual information about what happens to the inside the body. Vscan is portable and easily transported from room to room to be used in many clinical settings, hospitals or primary care.

The imaging device vscan, which received 510 (k) of the U.S. Agency for Medicines (Food and Drug Administration, FDA), the CE of the European Union and the licensing of medical device Health Canada, is now marketed in the United States, Europe, India and inCanada.

“To have at my disposal the vscan always allowed me to use ultrasound in a variety of settings and with patients in ways I never imagined before? The intensive care unit at the outpatient and ambulatory patients, “said Dr. Anthony N. DeMaria, Professor of Medicine, Chair Judith and Jack White in cardiology and director of the Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center at the San Diego School of Medicine at the University of California. “Vscan is more than just a diagnostic tool. This portable device would help physicians make quicker treatment decisions. I think technology vscan play an important role in physical examinations. ”

It quickly inside the body using the vscan may allow doctors to detect diseases earlier. What may be most valuable in practice overloaded today, especially for primary care physicians, specialists in cardiology, intensive care and emergency and gynecology, as well as hospital doctors.

“During our initial evaluation of 100 patients about using the vscan, we were impressed by its image quality and ease of use,” said Dr. Jose L. Zamorano, a member of the European Society of Cardiology, Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Medicine San Carlos de Madrid (Spain). “But more importantly, we have experienced in our own interest as a tool for our clinical and physical examination, which adds information relevant clinically for approximately one in four patients. ”

Vscan provides image quality that was only recently that the scope of an ultrasound console. Vscan based on graphics technology black and white high quality GE and imaging blood flow in color code embedded into a device that fits into your pocket, weighs less than 500 grams of 76 mm wide and 135 mm in length.

The vscan is an imaging device, measurement and analysis of ultrasound under control, designed for clinical applications of flow and detection of abdominal fluid, cardiology (adult and pediatrics), urology, medicine prenatal / obstetrics, pediatrics and chest / pleura and to examine patient care units front line and care.