I’m an Emergency Medicine Doctor: Here’s How We’re Using Ultrasound in Innovative Ways to Combat COVID-19

Resa E. Lewiss, MD, an emergency room physician at Thomas Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia, describes how she and her colleagues adapted an old technology to the new conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to her first-person account in Fast Company.

We’re learning some key ways to hasten the diagnosis and treatment of all these patients, including the adaptation of technology that we’ve been using for decades. Ultrasound gave me a clue to his condition long before a nasal swab would deliver results. Those take hours to days depending upon the laboratory. Not every patient needs an ultrasound or should get an ultrasound test. But some patients do benefit, and by working so quickly to inform us about a patient’s condition, it allows us to hasten their treatment.

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