Emergency Medicine Foundation And GE Healthcare Partner To Advance Ultrasound Use In Emergency Medicine

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Article Date: 28 Aug 2007 - 2:00 PDT

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The Emergency Medical Foundation (EMF) and GE Healthcare announced a one-year educational partnership to promote scientific knowledge and medical advancement of emergency medicine ultrasound.

The goal of the one-year educational partnership is to support ultrasound use in emergency medicine. The partnership will include two ultrasound training days for emergency medicine residents.

EMF is an organization funding innovative clinical and laboratory research. GE is the only ultrasound company working with EMF to sponsor the organization's educational, scientific and mission-related activities.

Ultrasound can be used as an integral part of an emergency physician's training. Besides uses in general imaging, ob/gyn and cardiology uses, emergency physicians can use ultrasound to image trauma in the patient's chest or abdomen. Ultrasound gives emergency physicians information within seconds, which can help clinicians to make triage decisions, such as scanning a patient and determining where the patient should be sent next, such as surgery.

The Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) is the oldest organization with the sole purpose of supporting research and education in the specialty, founded in 1972 to help create the scientific basis of the specialty.

"As the only national organization organized for the specific purpose of funding research in emergency medicine, EMF depends on outside donations to carry out its strategic mission," said Sandra M. Schneider, MD, Chair of EMF's Board of Trustees. "GE Healthcare's support of emergency medicine will allow emergency physicians to continue to advance the specialty and save lives."

"GE supports the mission of EMF and is committed to extending the reach and utility of advanced ultrasound imaging to emergency patient care," said Omar Ishrak, president and CEO of GE Healthcare's Clinical Systems division. "We've partnered with emergency physicians in the development of our ultrasound systems. Within seconds, GE ultrasound can be used to scan an emergency patient and produce high quality clinical images that provide vital insight to the patient's condition in life-critical situations such as trauma, abdominal aortic aneurysm or heart conditions."

The Emergency Medicine Foundation, the education and research arm of the American College of Emergency Physicians, is the only national organization organized for the specific purpose of funding research in emergency medicine. EMF's mission is to support the science of emergency medicine in order to improve patient care and practice. ACEP is a national medical specialty society representing emergency medicine with more than 25,000 members. ACEP is committed to advancing emergency care through continuing education, research and public education.

About GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.

GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at http://www.gehealthcare.com.