August 2025 - Untapped Ultrasound

🗞️ Ultrasound Application News

A recent study found cranial ultrasound to be 100% sensitive and over 90% specific for detecting intracranial hemorrhage in preterm neonates. These findings highlight ultrasound’s potential as a safe, bedside alternative to MRI for intracranial hemorrhage detection in pre-term newborns. Explore the full blog post and what the study means for neonatal care.

📚 Case Study: Ocular

What are the relevant sonographic findings?

Background: This 42-year-old male presents complaining of rapid onset of a dark shade over part of his visual field in the left eye. He experienced light flashes in his eye preceding the dark shade.

👩‍⚕️ Scanning & Imaging Tips: Foreign Body Localization

Foreign bodies can be challenging to identify and remove. Usually, physicians turn to plain radiographs to screen for retained foreign bodies in patients who come in with concerns of soft-tissue foreign bodies.

Unfortunately, this is often unproductive since a lot of times it’s a wooden foreign body that is causing the swelling and wood does not show up very well, if at all, with plain radiography.

While metallic and glass foreign bodies can be identified on plane radiography, ultrasound is actually much more useful in helping identify and remove them at the bedside. Even a two-view plain radiograph, can be very misleading with respect to where to actually search for the foreign body. One is often misled by looking at the external site of skin penetration, which may not be anywhere near where the foreign body is actually located.

CT and MRI are alternatives, but they come with drawbacks such as cost, limited availability, radiation exposure (CT), and contraindications (MRI). These modalities are much less helpful with the removal of the foreign body under real-time image guidance.

Ultrasound offers a safe, real-time, and cost-effective solution for guided removal.

🔎 Scan & Seek - Fun with Physics

Look below to see the dolphin we hid in this ultrasound image.

🧠 Challenge Case of the Month: Pediatrics

Case History:   This 5-year-old female presents with right wrist pain following a mechanical fall. 

Please evaluate her wrist with ultrasound.👇

✨ SonoSim Updates

Software Update
The latest version of SonoSimulator® is now available! This update includes several software improvements, and provides a "Findings Video”  resizing feature for a smoother viewing experience. Download the latest software update now and for a cleaner, faster, and more reliable experience.

New SonoSim LiveScan® Orientation Series
We’ve launched a new four-part orientation series designed to help you get the most out of SonoSim LiveScan®. Whether you’re setting up for the first time, adding new team members, or looking to enhance simulation sessions, these short, focused orientations cover every step from installation and activation to tag placement, creating custom training cases, and delivering sessions in real time. With no login required, you can explore all orientations anytime on our SonoSim LiveScan® welcome page. Start learning now and unlock the full potential of your simulation training.

A New & Improved Course Experience - Rolling Out Soon!
We’re making it easier than ever to navigate and complete your SonoSim courses. Our upcoming New Course-Taking Experience brings clearer course outlines, improved progress tracking, and a more intuitive interface designed to help you learn more efficiently.

This update will be introduced gradually on a rolling basis, starting at the end of the month, to ensure a smooth transition for all members. When it becomes available to you, we’ll provide guidance on what to expect and how to opt in. Stay tuned!

💡 SonoSim Tips & Tricks

New to performing ultrasound-guided procedures in the SonoSimulator®?

This quick orientation walks you through the Practice Element of the SonoSim Ecosystem, showing you how to maximize your training time. This brief overview highlights the benefits of virtual ultrasound-guided procedure training with automated assessment and feedback using the SonoSimulator. It also summarizes the different ultrasound-guided procedure training applications available, describes the structure of training cases, and provides best practices for getting the most from your sessions. You’ll finish with a clear game plan for making every practice session more effective and productive.

😂 LOLtrasound

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