Threshold of A New Era in Diagnostics: Philips Lumify Portable Ultrasound Review

In the future, a midwife could do an ultrasound of a high-risk pregnancy in the comfort of the mother’s home, a doctor with a backpack could examine entire refugee camps, or emergency services could diagnose trauma patients at an accident scene. It’s all possible with portable ultrasound machines. It’s peak technological performance. That’s why The Medical Futurist got thrilled when Philips sent us their Lumify system for testing. Check out our Philips Lumify portable ultrasound review below. Portable ultrasounds are the future Looking at the evolution of diagnostic devices, it becomes apparent that they follow a general design trend where articles for personal use become more and more miniaturized, digitized and connected. While in the past, the ultimate goal of medical tools was to somehow measure health parameters and vital signs and to record measurements. Currently, the question is how to measure more accurately and in a more patient-friendly way – even in low-resource regions, remote areas or emergencies. Design underpins these goals. At the time when Dr. Karl Theodore Dussik worked on transmission ultrasound investigation of the brain in Austria in 1942, the instruments took up almost the space of an entire room. The use of the technology began shortly after the Second World War, while the rapid advancement of ultrasound can be observed from the 1960s onwards – from still to real-time moving images and from bistable to greyscale. The size of the device grad...
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