University of Texas Health San Antonio
Program Resources
Ultrasound Machines
Mindray-Zonare:
2 TE7's (Adult ED, Division owned)
1 Z-One Pro (Pediatric ED, Hospital owned)
2 Mindray ME-8s (Adult ED, Division owned)
GE:
1 GE Venue Go (Adult ED, Division owned)
Sonosite:
1 X-Porte (Trauma, Hospital owned)
5 PX's (Adult ED, Hospital owned)
Center for Clinical Ultrasound Education:
9 Sonosite PX's (School of Medicine owned)
1 X-Porte (School of Medicine owned)
Portable Units for on or off-site use (Division Owned):
Philips Lumify linear, phased, and curvilinear transducers & Samsung tablet
3 Sonosite iViz's with linear & phased array transducers
GE V Scan Air
Ultrasound Probes
Fellows will have access to linear, curvilinear, phased array, endocavitary, pediatric and neonatal transducers.
TEE experience available outside of the ED.
Image Recorder
AGFA Enterprise Imaging: All ultrasound machines upload all saved images and video to centralized image archive system.
Educational Resources
The Director of the UT Health San Antonio's Ultrasound Division (Jessica Solis-McCarthy, MD) is also Ultrasound Discipline Coordinator UT Long School of Medicine. The UT Long SOM invested over $1,200,000 building a state-of-the art Center for Clinical Ultrasound Education that was designed by our Ultrasound Division Director. This Center has nine Sonosite PX's and one Sonosite X-Porte with ~46 ultrasound transducers of all varieties including pediatric, neonatal and TEE transducers. The Center has Blue Phantom, Simulab and Kyoto Kagaku ultrasound trainers for EFAST training, ultrasound-guided central venous access, thoracentesis, paracentesis, peripheral venous access, lumbar puncture, as well as transvaginal ultrasound. The center is 1,354 square feet in size and the main educational space contains 985 square feet with eight separate training stations all with wall mounted HDMI inputs and 7 with 42 inch monitors at each station. One of these stations is a “teaching station” with a touch screen control panel to control the entire lab space and all it’s monitors. Above the teaching station are four ceiling mounted cameras that can pan to any area of the teaching space and each monitor can show up to four split screen images. Activities within the Center can be transmitted to the Emergency Department lecture hall next to the lab, or transmitted off-site. The Center contains a control room with three power Mac computers. Our fellows will have access to this space for educational purposes and teaching activities. The Center for Clinical Ultrasound Education is located directly adjacent to the UTHSCSA Ultrasound Division office within the UTHSCSA Department of Emergency Medicine office space.
Division Owned (Office):
1 Intelligent Ultrasound HeartWorks TEE / TTE Simulator
1 Intelligent Ultrasound Transabdominal ScanTrainer
1 Intelligent Ultrasound Transvaginal ScanTrainer
2 SonoSim
2 Kyoto Kagaku Adult EFAST Phantoms
1 Kyoto Kagaku QA Phantom N-365
HD projector and large movie screen in office for group QA