KANGAR (Bernama): If there is a tool that can increase efficiency and lighten the burden of overworked frontliners, shouldn’t we embrace it?
According to Hospital Tuanku Fauziah (HTF) advanced acute internal medicine consultant, Datuk Seri Dr Paras Doshi, a pocket-sized ultrasound device is already in use in Malaysian hospitals as a diagnostic tool for the early detection of Covid-19 complications.
He said that it is smartphone and tablet compatible, and gives doctors more freedom of movement.
Dr Paras said patients won’t have to be sent for an imaging test of their organs -- like the heart, lungs and kidney - using bulky equipment like a computerised tomography (CT) scanner because the portable device serves the purpose.