This article goes soooooo far beyond the abstract’s implications and I wish they had talked to someone who actually uses ultrasound regularly before writing it. This is a wearable patch to take serial images of bladder volume, thats it. It is useful in the very limited clinical circumstances where you’d like a single view of a single organ spaced over a few days, such as for monitoring for urinary retention.
For the vast majority of ultrasound techniques I want a patch to replace my probe about as much as I want a patch to replace my computer’s mouse.
It’s so silly because a bladder scan takes all of a few seconds. And, if you were looking for urinary retention and signs of neurogenic bladder it’s still just a few times a day for like three days. It really is a niche item, probably to allow skilled nursing and acute rehab patients go home early.
This article goes soooooo far beyond the abstract’s implications and I wish they had talked to someone who actually uses ultrasound regularly before writing it. This is a wearable patch to take serial images of bladder volume, thats it. It is useful in the very limited clinical circumstances where you’d like a single view of a single organ spaced over a few days, such as for monitoring for urinary retention.
For the vast majority of ultrasound techniques I want a patch to replace my probe about as much as I want a patch to replace my computer’s mouse.
It’s so silly because a bladder scan takes all of a few seconds. And, if you were looking for urinary retention and signs of neurogenic bladder it’s still just a few times a day for like three days. It really is a niche item, probably to allow skilled nursing and acute rehab patients go home early.
You had a great comment, btw.