Emergency Medicine Foundation and GE Healthcare Collaborate to Improve Ultrasound Use in Emergency Medicine

Giles, UK) have announced a one-year educational partnership to promote research and medical advancement of emergency medicine ultrasound. The goal of the one-year educational partnership is to support ultrasound use in emergency medicine. The partnership will include two ultrasound-training days for emergency medicine residents.

EMF is an organization funding innovative clinical and laboratory research. GE is working with EMF to sponsor the organization's educational, scientific, and mission-related activities.

Ultrasound can be used as a fundamental part of an emergency physician's training. Besides uses in general imaging, ob/gyn, and cardiology uses, emergency physicians can use ultrasound to image trauma in the patient's chest or abdomen. Ultrasound gives emergency physicians information within seconds, which can help clinicians to make triage decisions, such as scanning a patient and determining where the patient should be sent next, such as surgery.

The Emergency Medicine Foundation's sole purpose is supporting research and education in the specialty. "As the only national organization organized for the specific purpose of funding research in emergency medicine, EMF depends on outside donations to carry out its strategic mission,” said Sandra M. Schneider, M.D., chair of EMF's Board of Trustees. "GE Healthcare's support of emergency medicine will allow emergency physicians to continue to advance the specialty and save lives.”

"GE supports the mission of EMF and is committed to extending the reach and utility of advanced ultrasound imaging to emergency patient care,” said Omar Ishrak, president and CEO of GE Healthcare's Clinical Systems division. "We've partnered with emergency physicians in the development of our ultrasound systems. Within seconds, GE ultrasound can be used to scan an emergency patient and produce high quality clinical images that provide vital insight to the patient's condition in life-critical situations such as trauma, abdominal aortic aneurysm, or heart conditions.”


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