Who said Ultrasound was dull and difficult?
Thanks to the boys (Matt and Mike) over at UltrasoundPodcast.com there is now a great new FREE app in town!
Positives: Simple, effective and useful – this is a rapid fire primer into the use of ultrasound at the bedside is a fantastic addition to the medical applications on your smart phone.
Negatives: A little bit buggy at present, and looks like a snowstorm on speed on the iPad…but I am assured these are simple fixes that will soon be resolved
The One-Minute Ultrasound App is now Free!
We found out it was going to be much harder than expected to have both the free and paid versions of the app in the app store at the same time. And since our main goal is to get this in your hands ASAP…we’re switching the paid app to free. [Matt and Mike 2012]
So for your next free medical app download go to…
- One Minute Ultrasound iPHONE App (Apple)
- One Minute Ultrasound – DROID Version (Android)
- One Minute Ultrasound – DROID (Amazon Android)
Update 16 May 2012:
Matt Dawson was on hand at SAEM2012 to talk about the One Minute Ultrasound app. Here’s what he had to say:
About Mike Cadogan
Mike, agree with all of that apart from ipad issue. It worked great on my ipad two!
it is simply the best ultrasound learning app I have used EVER!
Thanks Minh
Had to find something wrong with it! Maybe it was the fact I was using it in a snowstorm…
Lat time I saw Cadogan use an ultrasound machine he was trying to adjust the aerial to get a better picture…
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…oh how things have changed
With the arrival of bigger, better and more impressive ultrasound machines into the department…the older machines are now less ‘sacred’…and amenable to use by lowly ER physicians like myself
This, coupled with my new found knowledge of snowstorm interpretation (thanks to Mike and Matt) sees me regularly walking said machine towards patients in a threatening, yet educational manner!
two years ago, I saw a working model of a Windows based smartphone with USB attached USS probe, developed by MIT guys in US. The problem at the time was the processing power to run it at 30fps..they could manage half that and snowstorm issues ensued.
I predict within the next year or two that a fully workable smartphone or tablet based portable USS device will be available. The GE Vscan showed the technology is already there. I am testing currently a $65 disposable video laryngoscope that plugs into a USB enabled device like tablet or netbook. Mass availability of medical devices that are personally portable and affordable will change what we do at the bedside. when USS becomes as uibiquitous and personal as carrying your stethoscope…
Exactly.
We’ve now got things like the iSimulate app for iPad brining high fidelity sim ‘anyplace, anytime’ on a budget, delivered locally without expensiv sim labs (just ran a relaistic MH scenario at the end of theatre this morning)…good thing too, as an hour later we had a genuine anaesthetic crisis.
I reckon the iPad/iPhone is best way to go -- they are almost ubiquitous, serving as repository for checklists, pDFs for infusion protocols, email checking, web access, Angry Birds, medical apps and possibility of doubling as a monitor for patient telemetry, sonography etc etc
Bring it on…
Very cool app and the best things in life are always free!
It is after all the stethoscope of the future, hop on board or be left behind!