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greater mobilization of the affected joints.
Rather than argue that we don't need ultrasound, we should be looking for ways to use it that haven't even been discovered yet. For example, in heart surgery, we can now watch the heart with an ultrasound probe placed in the esophagus. With it, we can see heart failure as a swelling or poorly moving heart, we can see dehydration as an empty heart and we can see abnormal movement of the heart, which might indicate a heart attack or heart strain that could lead to damage
if it isn't corrected. With 3D ultrasound, we can see an incredibly realistic image of the pumping heart in real time. OSM
Dr. Curling
(sdcurlingdoc@gmail.com) is chief medical officer at Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital in Houston.
