Has anyone used the vscan or a similar device? Most interested in the new vscan with the dual probe.
vscan and similar devices
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I have used the vscan with the phased array probe.
It might be ok if you are into wilderness medicine but is kinda useless in a hospital with real ultrasound machines.
It might be ok if you are into wilderness medicine but is kinda useless in a hospital with real ultrasound machines.
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Dual probes? That would only be useful for....oh...forget it.
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we have the Vscan (not dual probe) in SICU, MICU, VAICU, CVICU, and CCU (and several attendings have). Its infinitely useful if you are running around a hospital, (ICU fellow going to codes, forced into CT scanner, out in the parking lot etc..) or have a quick question on ICU rounds. In the ed yeah sure you have an US machine in your dept which has more features than I have with the Vscan so I am not sure how useful it would be there? My questions are usually very simple with v scan like PUMP, tank, pipe kind of questions. However, if I'm looking for degree of valvular insufficiency, VTI, valve area of something more complex I use the phillips sparq, its pretty damn sweet (wish they paid me something for saying that).
Yes, that is exactly what I am thinking. I feel like 80% of my clinical questions can probably be answered with a vscan-like device (and the "dual" would also allow to quickly perform procedures such as us-guided piv's). Does this gallbladder look inflamed or not? Is this IVC collapsing or not? What is the global EF? Is there significant MR? Is there a foreign body? Is there free fluid or a pneumo? I often find myself in the situation where the "big" ultrasound machine is in use, or dirty, not charged, or not fully stocked with supplies. I hear the same from colleagues working at all kinds of places. Do I really have the time to go find that machine, clean it etc just to take a real quick look at the gb or the heart? Not during a busy clinical shift, and a portable device could change this. I fully agree with you that there are very good reasons to actually fire up the $100k machine and assess diastolic function, valves, a mass etc, but it would be nice to have a "triage tool" for those 80% of cases where a less sophisticated, but more readily available/usable device will suffice.
