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Dr. Gregory Hickman, Medical Director of the Andrews Institute and a founder of the popular ultrasound education portal blockjock.com, has been using ultrasound for regional anesthesia since 2006. Now he carries a Clarius wireless ultrasound scanner in his pocket.
“The beauty of the wireless ultrasound is it's so mobile, lightweight and it's so easy to use,” says Dr. Hickman. “You can use your phone. Yesterday, my iPad was not charged up so I just grabbed my phone, clicked on the app and it worked immediately.
Dr. Hickman spends the majority of his time at the Andrews Institute, an outpatient surgery center primarily focused on orthopedics and sports medicine where regional blocks are performed regularly to increase patient comfort following surgery and to decrease exposure to narcotics and their side effects. His personal experience with ultrasound guidance is in line with studies that have shown that ultrasound guidance improves the success of nerve blocks.
“It improves your speed of being able to do the block, and it actually improves the duration of block because you're getting more local around the target nerve versus doing it blind where you really don't see it. It should help anyone's confidence in what they're doing to be able to see what they're doing,” he explains.
An original member of the Clarius medical advisory board, Dr. Hickman has had the opportunity to use every model of the Clarius wireless ultrasound scanner since 2017. We recently had a chance to interview Dr. Hickman about his experience with the new Clarius HD3.
“The Clarius system works so well and has improved so much. It's as good as anything else. The cost is going to be much less than your typical laptop pole-bounded ultrasounds out there, and that's a big benefit.”
Watch our video interview to learn why Dr. Hickman wholeheartedly recommends the Clarius HD3 for regional anesthesia.
