ArticleFrontiers in physiology2022
Comparison of Newer Hand-Held Ultrasound Devices for Post-Dive Venous gas Emboli Quantification to Standard Echocardiography.
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- Systematic Review of Commercially Available Clinical CMUT-Based Systems for Use in Medical Ultrasound Imaging: Products, Applications, and Performance.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Pooled it
- Advances and Challenges of Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers in Medical Imaging.Micromachines · 2026Review
- Comparison of image quality in healthy dogs across 3 handheld ultrasound devices: Butterfly IQ+, Clarius C7HD3VET, and VScan Air.The Canadian veterinary journal = La revue veterinaire canadienne · 2026Article
- Inter-rater reliability of point-of-care ultrasound during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: an ancillary analysis of the observational prospective ACE trial.Resuscitation plus · 2026Article
- Agreement of precordial and subclavian Doppler ultrasound venous gas emboli grades in a large diving data set.Diving and hyperbaric medicine · 2025Article
- Decompression illness: a comprehensive overview.Diving and hyperbaric medicine · 2024Article
- Physiological monitoring to prevent diving disorders.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Review
- An open-source framework for synthetic post-dive Doppler ultrasound audio generation.PloS one · 2023Article
- Agreement between ultrasonic bubble grades using a handheld self-positioning Doppler product and 2D cardiac ultrasound.Diving and hyperbaric medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Decompression sickness (DCS) can result from the growth of bubbles in tissues and blood during or after a reduction in ambient pressure, for example in scuba divers, compressed air workers or astronauts. In scuba diving research, post-dive bubbles are detectable in the venous circulation using ultrasound. These venous gas emboli (VGE) are a marker of decompression stress, and larger amounts of VGE are associated with an increased probability of DCS. VGE are often observed for hours post-dive and differences in their evolution over time have been reported between individuals, but also for the same individual, undergoing a same controlled exposure. Thus, there is a need for small, portable devices with long battery lives to obtain more ultrasonic data in the field to better assess this inter- and intra-subject variability. We compared two new handheld ultrasound devices against a standard device that is currently used to monitor post-dive VGE in the field. We conclude that neither device is currently an adequate replacement for research studies where precise VGE grading is necessary.
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