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Sound Engineering: From Big Cities To Rainforests, Pocket-Size Ultrasound Helps Save Lives Around The World

Tomas Kellner
Daniel Kruger
April 05, 2021

Last year, Dr. Yale Tung Chen, an emergency medicine clinician in hard-hit Madrid, Spain, became one of a handful of clinicians around the world testing Vscan Air™, a handheld, wireless ultrasound scanner developed by engineers at GE Healthcare. The device, which GE Healthcare released for sale in the U.S. and Europe in March, beamed images from the ultrasound probe to an app on his smartphone, and this quickly became common practice on his daily rounds. “I’ve been using it on COVID-19 patients, scanning hearts, lungs, blocked vessels,” he says.

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No Strings Attached: Vscan Air — Pocket-Sized Wireless Ultrasound — Could Help Improve Healthcare Worldwide

Tomas Kellner
March 16, 2021
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As an emergency medicine clinician in Madrid, Spain, Dr. Yale Tung Chen has treated many COVID-19 patients since the start of the pandemic. And when he developed last March the ominous constellation of symptoms caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus — chills, cough, low-grade fever and a nagging headache — he knew what to do. Like other people stricken by the disease, the physician quarantined at home and monitored the signs of his illness. But he also knew that his overt symptoms were not the full picture of the disease.

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St. Luke’s University Health Network Selects GE Healthcare for $11 Million Ultrasound Purchase to Create System-wide Efficiencies

October 22, 2020
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Handheld ultrasound aids patient care, prehospital and in the air

Natalie Filatoff
May 24, 2018
Airborne within five minutes of receiving an emergency call, New Zealand’s Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter service is equipped with life rafts, stretchers, portable oxygen, medical packs, a humidicrib, a Breeze Eastern winch with 270kg (595 pounds)  lifting capacity, GPS, radio directional finders, Nitesun helicopter searchlights, night-vision goggles and its latest investment — a handheld, pocket-sized ultrasound from GE Healthcare called Vscan Extend.
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7 Ways GE Is Contributing To Indonesia’s Healthcare Industry

August 26, 2017
With the fourth largest population in the world and a growing economy with a rising middle class, Indonesia presents one of the fastest growing healthcare systems in the world.
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Hands of rescue to save lives in PNG

July 27, 2017
Australian doctor Barry Kirby runs Hands of Rescue, a not-for-profit medical service in Alotau, in the Milne Bay province on the south-eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. In January this year, GE’s PNG Country Leader, Peter Loko, donated a Vscan Dual Probe portable ultrasound to Dr Kirby. Six months later, he emailed in this story about how he’s using it.
Last Thursday I flew to Sehulea health centre through the only hole in the sky for months.
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Innovating Solutions to Smart Cities through Shared Knowledge

September 14, 2016
The ASEAN Leaders Programme, run by Common Purpose and sponsored by GE, took place in Singapore at the end of June, bringing together leaders and decision makers from throughout the ASEAN region. This inspirational event combines senior leaders from industry, government and NGO’s from a range of backgrounds to speak about innovation and inspire change makers in addressing challenges throughout the region.
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Spending Money, Saving Lives

Karim Karti GE
May 30, 2014
Recent figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) are a stark reminder of the many challenges we face in global healthcare today: Over 6 million children under the age of 5 die each year; over 1,000 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth; and over 36 million of the 57 million deaths every year are
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