August 11, 2022

Handheld Ultrasound: Puncture Visualization Will Reduce Risk and Increase Efficiency

When handheld ultrasound was born, people expected this kind of miniaturized equipment to allow more primary clinics to have low-cost diagnostic tools. In clinical departments, handheld ultrasound plays an important role in intervention, nursing, anesthesia, and intracardiac departments. For the intervention and venipuncture in various clinical departments, the success rate can be improved under the guidance of handheld ultrasound. At the same time, clinicians can help themselves quickly understand the pleural and ascites, lung ultrasound, blood volume, pericardial effusion, etc., to quickly determine the condition.

Interventional radiology is a diagnosis and treatment system closely integrated with imaging diagnosis. It has the distinctive feature of integrating imaging diagnosis and minimally invasive treatment. Interventional radiology refers to the use of puncture needles, guide wires, catheters and other interventional equipment to diagnose and treat diseases under the guidance of medical imaging equipment. It is known as the third largest diagnosis and treatment system after modern clinical therapeutics, after internal medicine and surgery. Interventional radiology has the advantages of minimally invasive, efficient, convenient, safe, and reproducible, which has changed the traditional medical and surgical treatment modes in many aspects. Compared with other clinical departments, interventional doctors are more experienced in imaging diagnosis.

Stork Puncture Enhancement Technology

The introduction of handheld ultrasound equipment combined with DSA and other angiography equipment has improved the combat capability of interventionists. Professor Shao Guoliang, a well-known expert in the field of intervention in the country, made an analogy, "Pistol-style weapons such as handheld ultrasound are simple but practical. For us, one more pistol will solve many problems."

In the interventional puncture guidance link, doctors can use handheld ultrasound to guide the process of suction, puncture, and intubation. If the blind puncture is performed, the doctor needs to have a wealth of experience to complete it. At the same time, blind piercing has certain risks. Accurate puncture under the guidance of handheld ultrasound can avoid multiple punctures. Compared with X-ray guided puncture, ultrasound guided puncture avoids radiation risks for doctors and patients. After many clinical trials, it is found that there are no quality problems in the image resolution and penetration rate of Stork's handheld ultrasound.

Stork's handheld ultrasound GPU architecture plus harmonic images are smooth, with high resolution, and there is almost no delay or lag. During the puncture process, the imaging under the needle ultrasound is very fast and almost synchronized, which greatly improves the success rate.

As one of the portable ultrasound machine manufacturer china, Stork offers app-based imaging system for the handheld portable ultrasound machine so as to provide real-time inspections for professionals.