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Real-life Dr. Who sonic screwdriver uses ultrasonic beams to perform medical procedures By Andrew Webster, theverge.com

In Dr. Who the sonic screw­driv­er can do any­thing from pick­ing a lock to track­ing aliens, but researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Dundee in Scot­land are build­ing a real-life ver­sion that could be used to per­form a vari­ety of med­ic…

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@ AIUM 2012

Conference off to a bang! Wonderful tech & education innovation! Can't wait to get back and bolster our SickKids eUS program!

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5 Ways To Bring Data And Design Into The Battle Against Diabetes BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com

Dealing with the disease involves careful monitoring of diet and glucose levels, things that can only be helped by making those things more transparent. These five finalists in the Data Design Diabetes contest have found innovative ways to do…

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5 Ways To Bring Data And Design Into The Battle Against Diabetes BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com

Dealing with the disease involves careful monitoring of diet and glucose levels, things that can only be helped by making those things more transparent. These five finalists in the Data Design Diabetes contest have found innovative ways to do…

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New layer of genetic information discovered http://helldesign.net, kurzweilai.net

A hid­den, never-before-recognized layer of infor­ma­tion in the genet­ic code has been uncov­ered by a team of sci­en­tists at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, San Fran­cis­co (UCSF) thanks to a tech­nique devel­oped at UCSF called ribo­some…

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The ‘living’ micro-robot that could detect diseases in humans http://helldesign.net, kurzweilai.net

A tiny pro­to­type robot that func­tions like a liv­ing crea­ture is being devel­oped which one day could be safe­ly used to pin­point dis­eases with­in the human body.

Called ‘Cyber­plasm‘, it will com­bine advanced micro­elec­tron­ics with…

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Nanopills Deliver Drugs from Inside Cells Orion Jones, bigthink.com

What's the Lat­est Devel­op­ment? Med­ical researchers in Barcelona, Spain, have engi­neered a new micro­scop­ic vehi­cle capa­ble of deliv­er­ing ther­a­peu­tic pro­teins direct­ly from the inside of cells. The vehi­cles, known as…

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An open-source robo-surgeon http://helldesign.net, kurzweilai.net

Blake Han­naford and his col­leagues at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton have devel­oped med­ical robots with wing-like arms, called Ravens, as robot­ic surgery.

Orig­i­nal­ly devel­oped for the U.S. army, Ravens are com­pact, light and cheap…

RT @KurzweilAINews: An open-source robo-surgeon: Blake Hannaford and his colleagues at the University of Washington have developed m... http://t.co/wpMqsA3E

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Weekly JC 3.7

This Week: eUS in the Field!

1. Aichinger G, Zechner PM, Fox JC, 9. Cardiac Movement Identified on Prehospital Echocardiography Predicts Outcome in Cardiac Arrest Patients. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2012:–.

2. Ritchie JV, Horne ST, Perry J, Gay D. Ultrasound triage of ocular blast injury in the military emergency department. Mil Med. 2012;177(2):174–178.

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How 3D Printing Will Change Your Life Orion Jones, bigthink.com

What's the Lat­est Devel­op­ment? 3D print­ing tech­nol­o­gy has pro­gressed rapid­ly in the last twen­ty years but is the next indus­tri­al rev­o­lu­tion real­ly on the hori­zon? Per­haps not in the same way some futur­ists would wish.…

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Weekly JC 02.29

This Week: Leaping ahead to more Focused Lung!

1.  Cortellaro F, Colombo S, Coen D, Duca PG. Lung ultrasound is an accurate diagnostic tool for the diagnosis of pneumonia in the emergency department. Emerg Med J. 2012;29(1):19–23

2.  Bouhemad B, Brisson H, Le-Guen M, Arbelot C, Lu Q, Rouby J-J. Bedside ultrasound assessment of positive end-expiratory pressure-induced lung recruitment. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2011;183(3):341–347.

3. Chiumello D. Bedside Ultrasound Assessment of Positive End Expiratory Pressure-induced Lung Recruitment. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2012;185(4):457. (a reply to Bouhemad et al.)

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Weekly JC 02.22 (re-post)

This Week: Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia RETURNS!

1. Amiri HR, Espandar R. Upper extremity surgery in younger children under ultrasound-guided supraclavicular brachial plexus block: a case series. J Child Orthop. 2010;4(4):315–319.

2. MARIANO E, ILFELD B, CHENG G, NICODEMUS H, Suresh S. Feasibility of ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve block catheters for pain control on pediatric medical missions in developing countries. Paediatric anaesthesia. 2008;18(7):598.

3. Liebmann O, Price D, Mills C, et al. Feasibility of forearm ultrasonography-guided nerve blocks of the radial, ulnar, and median nerves for hand procedures in the emergency department. Ann Emerg Med. 2006;48(5):558–562.

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Weekly JC 02.15 (re-post)

This Week:  Bubbles and Leaks

1.  Kutty S, Xie F, Gao S, et al. Sonothrombolysis of intra-catheter aged venous thrombi using microbubble enhancement and guided three-dimensional ultrasound pulses. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2010;23(9):1001–1006.  

2.  Lax D, Bhatt RD, Klewer SE, Sorrell VL. Are all ventricular septal defects created equal? J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2010;23(7):791.e5–7.

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Weekly JC 02.08 (re-post)

This Week: eUS Case Files!

1. The use of bedside ultrasonography in the evaluation of a neck mass. Am J Emerg Med. 2012;30(2):389.e3–389.e4.

2. Emergency physician diagnosis of pediatric infective endocarditis by point-of-care echocardiography. Am J Emerg Med. 2012;30(2):386.e1–386.e3.

3. Ultrasound-guided catheter-over-needle internal jugular vein catheterization. Am J Emerg Med. 2012;30(2):372–373

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Smartphones may some day help people take better control of their health by tracking it with increasing precision and convenience.

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Weekly JC 01.25

This week:  A Quick-look @ Quick Looks!

Lee, D.C. & Swaminathan, A.K., 2011. Sensitivity of ultrasound for the diagnosis of tubo-ovarian abscess: a case report and literature review. The Journal of emergency medicine, 40(2), pp.170–175

Kimura, B.J. et al., 2012. Diagnostic performance of a pocket-sized ultrasound device for quick-look cardiac imaging. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 30(1), pp.32–36.

Nagdev, A., Murphy, M. & Sisson, C., 2008. Bedside ultrasound for the detection of diabetic myonecrosis. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 26(8), pp.969.e3–4.