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    GE Healthcare Reveals Vscan Air Wireless, Handheld Ultrasound

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    GE Healthcare Reveals Vscan Air Wireless, Handheld Ultrasound
    Vscan Air, a pocket-sized ultrasound from GE Healthcare, enters the market as one of the smallest and lightweight handheld devices without compromising crystal clear image quality and secure data sharing. Image courtesy of Business Wire.
    Sam Brusco, Associate Editor03.17.21
    GE Healthcare unveiled Vscan Air, a wireless, pocket-sized ultrasound that offers crystal clear image quality, whole-body scanning, and intuitive software.
     
    GE Healthcare pioneered the first color pocket-sized ultrasound, Vscan, in 2010. To date, there are over 30,000 Vscan Family systems in clinicians’ pockets. Vscan Air continues the company’s commitment to transforming clinical exams by making it easier to acquire high quality ultrasound images.
     
    “The first time I fired up the Vscan Air it did feel a little bit like stepping into the future,” Dr. Kyle Leonard, Family Medicine clinician at Hudson Headwaters Health Network in upstate New York, told the press. “Many of us are pressed to see patients, to give patients that access to care, so the more time something takes, the less patients I can provide access to in a day. With the portability and ease of use of the Vscan Air, I can bring it with me throughout the day in each exam room and spend more time with my patients.”
     
    Handheld ultrasound has become an essential tool, allowing quickly collecting images and triaging patients while also providing portability, cleanability, and workflow efficiency. Several studies show lung ultrasound comparable to X-ray and CT when examining COVID-19 patients’ lungs.1,2
     
    “Time is one of the most valuable resources in this pandemic-challenged world, where so many patients need care. Now, I can carry Vscan Air in my coat pocket, take it out, and start to scan. With this powerful tool in my pocket I can perform a complete examination on my patients and make decisions quickly right at the bedside,” said Dr. Yale Tung-Chen, Chief of the Division of Ultrasound in Internal Medicine at Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Majadahonda in Madrid, Spain and currently working in the Spanish COVID-19 specialized Isabel Zendal Emergency Hospital. “The images you can get of the heart on this handheld device are similar to what you’d get from a full-sized, high-end ultrasound. Vscan Air is a well-designed, powerful tool that’s easy to clean and easy to use.”
     
    According to GE, Vscan Air is one of the smallest and lightweight handheld ultrasound devices with advanced image quality and visualization. Additional benefits include:
     
    • Whole-body scanning capabilities with crystal clear image quality: complete both shallow and deep exams effortlessly with a simple flip of the two-sided probe design (high frequency linear and convex transducer probe), without switching probes in-between or during clinical exams. Proprietary SignalMax technology allows for crystal clear imaging capability of larger ultrasound machines in the palm of your hand.
    • Intuitive user interface and probe design: user-tested design includes software presets for fast scanning, single-button probe for easy image capture and freezing, and intuitive set-up and scan start-up so users can pair the probe and start scanning immediately.
    • Securely share data and images: seamlessly share auto-anonymized images with patients post-scan. Patient data remains within your network - not the Cloud. Store and share images securely with the systems’ DICOM TLS 1.3 with private client & server certificate support (the most secure method currently available to send patient data over a wireless network for review and storage) without a monthly subscription.
    • Probe cleanability and durability: military-grade durability standard, withstanding drops, and extreme temperatures, water exposure, and high-level disinfection techniques.
    • Maximum portability and energy savings: the system adapts signal processing from high-end console systems into a custom miniaturized chipset. The result is an ultra-compact device that delivers high-intensity ultrasound signals, enabling high-quality imaging and achieving 77 percent power reduction compared to off-the-shelf Analog Front End3 components.
     
    “Now more than ever, clinicians need smaller and smarter tools that increase access and efficiency both in and outside of the four walls of the hospital,” said Anders Wold, president and CEO of Global Ultrasound at GE Healthcare. “The Vscan Air exemplifies customer-driven innovation that enables more personalized care for patients worldwide. We pioneered handheld ultrasound when we brought the first pocket-sized ultrasound with color Doppler to market and now we see Vscan Air as delivering on the future of healthcare at a time when ultrasound has proven to be an essential tool at the point of care.”
     
    References
    1 Cho, Young-Jae & Song, Kyoung-Ho & Lee, Yunghee & Yoon, Joo Heung & Park, Ji Young & Jung, Jongtak & Lim, Sungyoon & Lee, Hyunju & Yoon, Ho & Kim, Hong & Kim, Eu Suk. (2020). Lung ultrasound for early diagnosis and severity assessment of pneumonia in patients with coronavirus disease 2019. The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine. 35. 771-781. 10.3904/kjim.2020.180.
    2 Smith, M. J., Hayward, S. A., Innes, S. M., & Miller, A. (2020). Point-of-care lung ultrasound in patients with COVID-19 - a narrative review. Anaesthesia, 75(8), 1096–1104. https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.15082
    3 Comparison to Texas Instruments DOC2433547
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