Previously, radiologists were involved in ultrasound diagnostics. Then the ultrasound was removed and he began to live his life.
There are expensive ultrasound scanners and complex examinations. A very profitable business.
Everything is simpler in the West. There, as the radiologists were engaged in ultrasound, they are doing it. They are tough people. If you need to do an ultrasound, they will do an ultrasound. And if it is not necessary, then they will not remember.
And now the foreign radiologists are tired of the continuous stream of sputum from covid patients pouring into their CT scanners. They started doing X-rays with bedside machines, and it turned out that there was not much benefit from tomographs.
The radiation from the bedside X-ray machine is about 100 times less, and all the infection remains in the ward.
Then there were more patients, they began to be examined with everything that came to hand, and it turned out that the benefits of an ultrasound scanner are no less than from a stationary tomograph. There is no radiation at all. The beauty!
The information is the same, the patient does not need to be rolled throughout the hospital, and no one irradiates anyone.
It got to the point that our resuscitators brag about how they connect a pocket ultrasound scanner to the phone and get all the information they need.
It reminded me of military history, when at the beginning of the war cavalry with pikes was still galloping, and at the end of the war, night vision devices, ballistic missiles and jet fighters already appeared. That is, progress is very strongly stimulated by such cataclysms.
And now the international protocol of specialists in radiation diagnostics does not recommend computer tomography for covid patients, neither for screening examination, nor for diagnosis of the first line in hospital. Because ultrasound scanning with a bedside device is not inferior to a computed tomogram in terms of diagnosing covid pneumonia.
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