Army Medical
Portable Ultrasound with Special Forces Physicians
Dr. (Maj.) Andrew Morgan came to the 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) he already knew the value of ultrasound machines to be an emergency physician at Womack Army Medical Center in Fort Bragg.
Morgan brought this knowledge with him to the group in summer 2007 when he became the battalion surgeon to the 1st Battalion, 3rd SFG, and he quickly pushed to have ultrasound machines over to his unit.
Morgan and his team conducted deficiency in the arena of medical imaging, after they reviewed the medical capabilities of Special Forces battalion operational Detachment Alpha teams. Then he drove to acquire ultrasound machines over to bring them to the Doctors Special Forces in the area where they have the most impact.
The machines, which use high frequency sound waves to examine the body for a variety for medical purposes, such as the identification of blood in the abdomen, fractures to find infections of the skin and lungs have collapsed, have already widely used in medicine, but the army until recently, were not staged in special forces arena.
But with the advent of portable ultrasound machines, which can weigh less than five pounds, Special Forces doctors are aware of the power of this technology in their environment.
Currently, each battalion Special Forces is allowed only one portable ultrasound machine, but when Morgan took his current position, he asked for more machines into the hands medical unit.
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