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.
You can read media coverage of the event from Medical Imaging, January 24, 2013 here and HealthImaging, December 10, 2012, ASE, here.
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.
Technology Connected Experts Worldwide
Sixty-four ASE physician members read the focused echocardiograms online from locations worldwide, ranging from major U.S. and Canadian hospitals to overseas facilities located in Bulgaria, Colombia, Egypt, Georgia, Greece and Italy. Using Core Sound Imaging’s Studycast, the physicians were able to view their assigned studies online and then complete an abbreviated findings report for each patient. The reports were then rerouted back to India for review by the onsite physicians for follow-up care decisions.
Participants & Collaborators
The on-site ASEF volunteer team consisted of 7 sonographers, listed below. On-site organization was provided by Nitin Insan. The event was also supported by Tele-Teaching Sonographer Participants: Brad Roberts, RCS, RDCS, FASE; Barry Canaday, RN, RDCS, RCS, FASE; Elaine Shea, RCS, RCCS, FASE; Ray Garcia, RDCS, FASE; Kristen Billick, RDCS, FASE; Peg Knoll, RDCS, FASE; Bryan GenKuong; G. Monet Strachan, RDCS, FASE; George Mesa, RDCS; Teri Dittrich, RDCS; and Todd Belcik, RCS, RDCS, FASE.
Indian Physician Participants: Dr. Anup Shyamal, Dr. Ahsan Ahmed, Dr. Ramit Wadhwa, Dr. Vikas Mudgal, Dr. Vishav Arora, Dr. Nitin Gupta, Dr. Brijesh Saran, Dr. Umesh Kashyap, Dr. Aastha Kansal, Dr. Sandeep Kumar, Dr. Rajnikant Shastry, Dr. Prashant Prabhakar, Dr. P. Farooq Khan, Dr. Ranveer Singh, Dr. Gianender Singh, Dr. Alok Kumar, and Dr. Deepak Vats.
Team Leaders
Partho P. Sengupta, MD, DM, FASE
David Adams, RCS, RDCS, FASE
Team Members
Manish Bansal, MD, DMB, FASE
Gurpal (Gee) Bhogal
Lynette de los Santos, RDCS, MBA, FASE
Carlene McClanahan, RDCS
Marti L. McCulloch, MBA, RDCS, FASE
Jennifer Neary, RDCS, FASE
Neha Soni-Patel, RDCS
Rhonda Price ASE Durham, NC
Partners In Care
The ASE Foundation partnered with Medanta-The Medicity, GE Healthcare, Core Sound Imaging, Inc., and Statvideo.
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