Manhasset, N.Y. – A 5.4-pound portable ultrasound monitor designed for use in military conflicts is being deployed on battlefields in Iraq. Developed by SonoSite Inc. (Bothell, Wash.), the unit boots ...

Until recently, if you needed an ultrasound scan, it meant a trip to a hospital or a specialist’s office with an expensive, stand-alone machine. That’s changing, thanks to a new device called ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - When Dr. (Maj.) Andrew Morgan came to 3rd Special Forces Group, he already knew the value of ultrasound machines from being an emergency physician at Womack Army Medical Center ...

It might be far more portable in the future, however. Researchers have developed a wearable ultrasound patch that provides real-time heart imagery, even while you're in motion.

Ultrasound Gets More Portable A new handheld ultrasound device could be the first that can connect directly to cell-phone and Wi-Fi networks.

Ordinarily, medical ultrasound imaging systems are big and bulky enough that they have to be pushed along on wheeled carts. The new Vave probe, however, can be carried in a pocket and paired with ...

Ultrasound is traditionally used in emergency medicine and in intensive care units to get quick answers for very sick patients. However, Dr. Tierney, assistant program director of internal ...

Enter the portable ultrasound machine. A small, laptop sized device that weighs less than five pounds, runs off standard radio batteries and at $40,000 a copy cost one third the price of an X-ray ...

Researchers have made progress against ‘the skull challenge,’ getting through barriers that prohibit ultrasound from imaging the brain while a patient is moving.

The foundation purchased the ultrasound imager for the Novant Health Imaging Julian Road breast center at a cost of $134,805. The center began using the ultrasound unit with two breast transducers ...

Cite this: Portable Ultrasound as the Stethoscope of the Future: Is It the Snapchat of Formal Echocardiography? - Medscape - Nov 18, 2013.

Special Forces medics with 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), at Fort Bragg, N.C., are empowered by their use of portable ultrasound machines on the battlefield.