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ASE Global: Focus on India elevates cardiovascular ultrasound through new technology while benefitting underserved population

1/11/2012 Heart Disease News

January 5, 2012, Morrisville, NC: An exciting project spearheaded by The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) will utilize the latest technological innovations in the field to bring cardiovascular ultrasound to rural India. In late January, ASE will sponsor the travel of cardiovascular sonographers to a remote field in India, where an estimated 1.2 million people will gather for a meditation camp. These sonographers and their Indian physician counterparts will use hand-held echocardiography units to provide free imaging services to as many as 1,000 pre-screened people. ASE is bringing trained, registered experts to assist the procedures, mimicking the state of the practice in the US, where the medical system relies on the expertise of the sonographer scanning to assure that the images are correctly acquired. A Web-based transmission solution will then be used to send the images electronically to numerous hospitals in the United States, where ASE-member physicians will read them and transmit their reports back to physicians in India for further follow-up and care.

The project, called 'ASE Global: Focus on India,' elevates cardiovascular ultrasound to the next level of excellence, taking it out of the lab and to the doorsteps of people anywhere in the world. It is intended as a cross-cultural educational project to showcase the possibilities offered by breakthroughs in hand-held echocardiography technology and cloud-based transmission, while offering participants a unique opportunity to learn from one another and be part of a humanitarian effort to benefit an underserved population. Media interviews with Dr. Partho Sengupta, an incoming ASE Board Member and cardiologist from New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center who is also serving as the liaison to the project for the ASE International Relations Task Force can be arranged both before and following the trip.

For More Information Please Contact: Cathy Kerr, ckerr@asecho.org

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