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Boost Your Confidence with Hands-on Ultrasound Training Take advantage of Sonosite’s educational workshops, designed to introduce you to point-of-care ultrasound best practices. Scheduled throughout the U.S., our Visual Medicine™ presentations will enable you to work on scanning techniques while “test driving” the latest in ultrasound technology. Through hands-on practice sessions and question-and-answer opportunities with onsite experts, you’ll learn how the integration of point-of-care ultrasound into your practice can benefit you and your patients.

The Sonosite Institute our exclusive education portal tailor-made for Sonosite customers. The first step to getting access to the Sonosite Institute is finding the serial number on your Sonosite ultrasound machine. This video will show you how to do that.

Since point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is all we do, our design process is 100% focused on helping clinicians remove barriers to patient care. How do we do that? Watch our Chief Medical Officer and Experience Design Team discuss how we create ultrasound machines for ease-of-use, reliability and durability.

Boost Your Confidence with Hands-on Ultrasound Training Take advantage of Sonosite’s educational workshops, designed to introduce you to point-of-care ultrasound best practices. Scheduled throughout the U.S., our Visual Medicine™ presentations will enable you to work on scanning techniques while “test driving” the latest in ultrasound technology.

ICHS, a nonprofit community health center that provides affordable medical, dental, behavioral care and health education services to Seattle, had a goal to drive greater compliance and better outcomes and to provide as many services on site as possible. Sonosite partnered with ICHS to make point of care ultrasound services available in their community health centers.

How do our ultrasound systems help clinicians remove barriers to patient care? Watch our Chief Medical Officer and Experience Design Team discuss how we create ultrasound machines for ease-of-use, reliability and durability.

Our portable ultrasound systems exceed military standards for ruggedness and are regularly recognized for their durability and reliability. In the unlikely event that your ultrasound system or transducer requires repair, we offers an overnight loaner program to minimize your downtime - an industry first five-year standard warranty on our proprietary ultrasound systems and transducers.

Clinical evidence and research supports using ultrasound as the first diagnostic test for numerous musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions. Diagnostic ultrasound offers a number of important advantages compared to computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), in terms of safety and effectiveness.In 2009 alone, CT and MRI accounted for 95% of Medicare allowed charges for all extremity imaging. Only 5% was for ultrasound, which is cost-effective and avoids the inherent risk of radiation exposure. Using a lower cost and a safer approach to imaging would make clinical sense for many conditions without compromising care.

More than five million central venous catheter (CVC) lines are placed in U.S. hospitals each year, making it one of the most common invasive emergency room procedures.1 CVC placement involves the insertion of a large catheter into a patient’s major vessel. It is often used for those who have poor venous access where veins cannot be visualized, making it difficult to place an IV without multiple sticks. Due to its high-risk nature, CVC procedures can have a complication rate near 15%, which includes susceptibility to catheter-related blood stream infection or even death.2 Emergency physicians Dr. Arthur Au, Dr. Bon Ku and Dr. J. Matthew Fields developed a study to see if CVC placement for patients with difficult IV access could be replaced by ultrasound-guided peripheral intravenous IVs (USGPIVs).