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Cutting-Edge Care
RedOrbit, TX - Aug 4, 2008
Methodist Hospitals recently invested in the latest 3D/4D ultrasound equipment and other advanced technologies for its Maternal-Fetal Medicine program. ...

Malaysia Star
Quick way to enhance your body image
Malaysia Star, Malaysia - Aug 3, 2008
For instance, one can smoothen, tighten and contour skin or reduce fat through high intensity ultrasound energy, radio frequency, or even with a simple ...
Rowan doctor helping patients find treatment south of the border
Salisbury Post, NC - Aug 3, 2008
To have it done, Cline and his patient have to leave the country for Mexico, where high-intensity, focused ultrasound (HIFU, pronounced high-foo) has been ...
?We?re ahead of schedule?
Eastern Washington Statesmen Examiner, WA - Jul 30, 2008
In addition, the project will provide an increase in patient safety, comfort and privacy. Other issues the project will tackle are patient transport, ...
Surgeons put patients first
Galena Gazette, IL - Jul 22, 2008
The patient will be transferred to a recovery bay. The hospital has three recovery bays, with a fourth in a negative pressure room. ...
Health Calendar: 07/31/2008
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NAMI Connection, recovery support group meetings 1:30 pm every Fri., Kandu Island Center, 3003 Garfield Ave., TC; for adults with mental illness regardless ...
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Lithgow Mercury, Australia - Jul 9, 2008
It includes mammography equipment, an ultrasound unit, general fluoroscopy machine and a dental X ray unit. The biggest and costliest new piece of equipment ...
Sonographic Diagnosis of a Radiographically Undiagnosed Hook of ...
Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (subscription) - Jul 21, 2008
The patient was discharged with immobilization by an antebrachial splint for 3 weeks. Clinical and radiologic follow-up after 1 month showed good recovery. ...
Expert Care At Woodmere Rehabilitation Center
Five Towns Jewish Times Online, NY - Jul 31, 2008
This often translates into faster recovery time. Ongoing communication between the dialysis staff and unit staff generates quality continuity of care for ...

Times Online
This new drug is no magic bullet
Times Online, UK - Jul 26, 2008
High-frequency ultrasound works in a similar fashion, focusing on the cancer cells and leaving the rest of the prostate intact, thereby avoiding ...
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Effect of local anesthetics on patient recovery after transrectal biopsy. -
CL Wu, HB Carter, M Naqibuddin, LA Fleisher - Urology, 2001 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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pain is a common side effect of transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate ...

… doppler ultrasound in patients with aortic stenosis: a predictable manifestation of pressure recovery -
H Baumgartner, T Stefenelli, J Niederberger, H … - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 1999 - Am Coll Cardio Found
... this phenomenon requires consideration in a given patient. ... the extent of pressure
recovery and, therefore ... assessment of aortic stenosis by Doppler ultrasound. ...

… between ultrasound indices of follicular blood flow, oocyte recovery and preimplantation embryo … -
G Nargund, T Bourne, P Doyle, J Parsons, W Cheng, … - Human Reproduction, 1996 - ESHRE
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Ultrasound derived indices of follicular blood flow before HCG administration and the prediction of … -
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EE Moore, CC Cothren, JL Johnson, DJ Ciesla, JM … - Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2005 - Elsevier
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… : Ovarian abscess following puncture of an endometrioma during ultrasound-guided oocyte retrieval -
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… thrombotic stroke after carotid endarterectomy: The role of transcranial Doppler ultrasound -
N Lennard, J Smith, J Dumville, R Abbott, DH Evans … - Journal of Vascular Surgery, 1997 - Elsevier
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Real-Time 3-D Ultrasound Speeds Patient Recovery
Mayo Clinic physicians have adapted real-time 3-D ultrasound imaging devices -- including one designed to look at an infant's heart -- so that they can watch as they use a needle filled with anesthetic to numb individual nerves located inches under the skin. In this way, they can quickly block nerve function in selected areas of the body prior to surgery, an advance that may spare patients from use of general anesthesia and sends them home faster and with less need for pain medication.

Mayo anesthesiologists have demonstrated the benefits of real-time 3-D ultrasound in nerve blockade in more than 150 surgeries of varied types. Their presentations at scientific meetings and publications in peer-reviewed journals have informed other physicians worldwide into how this next-era ultrasound imaging technology may assist in peripheral nerve block placement -- the technique of disabling targeted nerves so that a patient doesn't feel pain from surgery.
For example, their latest case study, reported in the July issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, describes how they used 3-D ultrasound to find the sciatic nerve behind the thigh of a woman who needed major reconstructive surgery on her foot. Using the imaging technique to help physicians place a catheter filled with local anesthetic next to the nerve, they numbed it to block pain signals from being transmitted to the brain of the patient, who was sedated.

When the brain doesn't know surgery is under way because the nerve is inactivated, it doesn't mount the kind of systematic pain response that keeps patients medicated and in their beds, says anesthesiologist Steven Clendenen, M.D., who helped develop use of the technique with Neil Feinglass, M.D., and other anesthesiologists at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville.

"Now we can find the nerve we want in real-time 3-D, guide our needle right next to it, then watch as anesthesia is released and surrounds the nerve, inactivating it," Dr. Feinglass says. "No one thought peripheral regional blocks could be done in real-time 3-D, and we believe we are the first in the world to really do it."

Most people are familiar with traditional 3-D ultrasound probes that can see a growing fetus and an adult's beating adult heart using waves that penetrate deep within body tissue and reflect back to form an image. But these devices cannot be used to picture nerves, because nerves are often too close to the surface of the skin and too shallow for the sound waves generated to form an image.

Dr. Feinglass, who specializes in cardiac anesthesiology, and Dr. Clendenen, an expert on regional pain blocks, thought of using smaller ultrasonic probes to image nerves. "We thought nerves could be very ultrasound friendly because they run in a linear plane and are wrapped in a sheath of fat, so they easily reflect back ultrasound waves," says Dr. Clendenen.

They tested two different Philips transducers (the hand held probes held by physicians against the body which emit the ultrasound waves) known as the x3-1 and x7-2 Matrix array tranducers. The x7-2 Matrix array had been recently designed to image the tiny hearts of infants.
Both provide sharp resolutions even at shallow depths, Dr. Clendenen says. Still, it took a lot of effort to master a technique for using these probes to see single nerves," he says. "They weren't designed for it."

The physicians have used this technique to place blocks on nerves in the neck, under arms, below collarbones, and in the backside upper portion of legs. "Our small group of anesthesiologists works well together in developing technology and bringing it quickly to the bedside," Dr. Feinglass says. "We find that when regional nerve blocks are used, patients have less stress on their hearts, better recovery and improved rehabilitation."

Mayo Clinic
200 First St. SW
Rochester, MN 55902
United States
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