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Technology to make prenatal care and postpartum recovery safer

Emagine Solutions Technology Awarded Competitive Grant from the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Program Provides Seed Funding for R&D The SBIR Phase I grant is aimed at improving clinical outcomes associated with pregnancy and prenatal care for those affected by preeclampsia, a potentially life-threatening condition of pregnancy occurring in the second trimester through the postpartum period. This condition…
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Womens Health 3 min read

Women’s Health Report

Despite a global trend of decreasing maternal deaths, the United States has seen an increase of 47 percent from 2000 to 2015 [1]. In 2018, the most recent year for which data is available, the United States has a Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) of 20.7 per 100,000 births — the…
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Maternal Mortality 6 min read

How and Why Ultrasound can Replace Fetal Doppler Monitors

Doppler fetal monitors or doptones are instruments that allow physicians, midwives and other medical professionals to detect fetal heartbeat as well as monitor fetal heart rate during labor and delivery. This ultrasonic device was developed in the 1960’s and utilizes the Doppler effect to provide an audible simulation of fetal…
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Ultrasound 6 min read

A Beginner’s Guide to Ultrasound Tech

The Importance of Ultrasound Diagnostic ultrasound, or sonography, is a common, noninvasive method for taking real time images from inside your body. The first thing that may come to mind when you think about ultrasound is probably pregnancy. This makes sense, as ultrasound is…
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Portable Ultrasound 5 min read

More than Obstetrics: 5 Unlikely Uses for Ultrasound

Today’s medical professionals have access to a variety of imaging procedures. Ultrasound is one of the more convenient methods as it doesn’t require exposing patients to radiation and provides relative freedom in movement. Because of this added safety, sonography is a preferred method for monitoring pregnancy and majorly contributed to…
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Ultrasound 5 min read

Emergency Medicine Needs Ultrasound. Here’s Why:

In an emergency setting, physicians are required to make decisions almost immediately and in the face of limited time and resources. Ultrasonic imaging is a supplemental tool that enables professionals to investigate a number of acute conditions and either rule them out or provide information that leads to the correct…
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Ultrasound 4 min read

COVID-19 and Maternal Health

In January 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of a novel coronavirus as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern[1]. WHO later announced the official name for this disease: COVID-19. Subsequent release of information and data have provided guidance for government officials, healthcare workers and the general…
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Covid 19 13 min read

Expanding Ultrasound

Ultrasound technologies have been utilized in the medical field for over 60 years, and still the general understanding of their use and function is focused in the field of obstetrics. Along with visualizing an image of an early stage pregnancy, we picture a large machine, alone in a room, that…
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Ultrasound Machine 4 min read

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