About The Event
20
Participants Trained
1,096
Patients Scanned
Building on the success of the first ASE Global: Focus on India initiative in January 2012, the ASE Foundation sent a new group of sonographers to rural India to train a team of physicians and staff a free medical camp in December 2012.
Highlights
The team provided a day of training at Medanta Hospital to 20 physicians. The team, joined by the physicians, traveled to a community outreach site in North India, where they worked side by side for continued hands-on training for two days.
Educated 20 Indian Physicians To Improve Scanning Technique
The team “built” two echo labs in an auditorium and adjacent hallway. Each lab contained five beds. Each bed had a sonographer helping physicians obtain a Focused Echo study.
Remote and In-Person Training
One echo lab was for face to face training, while the other was connected online for live viewing of images using an EchoBox contributed by StatVideo and Skype for audio. US based sonographers helped the physicians obtain, optimize and review pathologies. Education and feedback just like the physicians in the other “Lab” were receiving face to face!
Over 1,000 Focused Echocardiograms Over 2 Days
The volunteer team and Indian physicians conducted focused echocardiograms on patients selected for a cataract surgery at a free cataract surgical clinic. The patients were scanned to ensure that structural heart disease was not missed in the fast paced, crowded and noisy environments of the camp where a cardiac murmur could be difficult to distinguish.
Participants & Collaborators
The volunteer team consisted of 7 ASE Foundation sonographers.
Team Leaders
Partho P. Sengupta, MD, DM, FASE
Mount Sinai Medical Center New York, NY
Team Members
David Adams, RCS, RDCS, FASE Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC
Neha Soni-Patel, RDCS
Gurpal (Gee) Bhogal
Carlene McClanahan, RDCS
Jennifer Neary, RDCS, FASE
Marti L. McCulloch, MBA, RDCS, FASE
Lynette de los Santos, RDCS, MBA, FASE
Rhonda Price ASE Durham, NC
Partner Organizations
The ASE Foundation partnered with Medanta-The Medicity, GE Healthcare, Core Sound Imaging, Inc., and Statvideo.
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