Day 1, incredible. For those of you who donated to help purchase the Sonosite ultrasound for Dhaka Medical College Hospital rest assured your money was very well spent! I had the great pleasure of rounding with the ICU team this morning. The first patient we encountered had a diagnostic dilemma requiring the help of bedside ultrasound. One of the critical care trainees took the ultrasound probe and showed me all the cardiac views and gave me an assessment. Jaw-dropped I watched as someone I myself didn’t train showed me the techniques I left behind. What does this mean? It means the trickle down effect WORKED! We had spent extra time with Dr. Tarek Reza, Dr. Ferdous Rahman and Dr. Mohammad Asudazzaman, and these three physicians were pivotal in passing along the training. They surpassed all of our expectations by a landslide.
After rounds one of the trainees presented 6 cases from the prior two weeks in which ultrasound was successfully used and especially in cases where the patients were unable to obtain an X-ray quickly or unable to transfer for any higher level imaging. In all instances the use of the ultrasound was incredibly helpful in patient care and clinical decision making.
The machine is kept clean and maintained well, stored safely and all of its capabilities are maximized including saving images and creating folders of pathology so as to aide in teaching the next generation of trainees all of whom now have point-of-care ultrasound exposure and experience from day 1!
Here are a few pictures, taken with permission, of the presentation given today. Incredible stuff!
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