Inside Precision Medicine September 8, 2025
Point-of-care ultrasound devices could help doctors make better diagnoses when hospitalized patients show dyspnea or shortness of breath, leading to shorter hospital stays and lower hospitalization costs. Results from a 200-patient study, published in JAMA Network Open, showed that using a portable ultrasound device to diagnose patients admitted with shortness of breath shortened their average length of stay by 3.6 days, reducing hospitalization costs by more than $750,000.
“The study clearly shows that ultrasound is the superior diagnostic technology, even for long-time stethoscope users who get a few hours of ultrasound training,” said Partho P. Sengupta, MD, professor of cardiology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and chief of the division of cardiovascular diseases & hypertension at Rutgers...
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