ECMUS (SAFETY COMMITTEE) - Literature reviews now available on the EFSUMB website

Table of Contents

Out very active Safety Committee (ECMUS) has taken up writing reviews of current literature with special focus on safety issues. Below is a list of the most recent reviews, please go to the website to read them.

• The cooling effect of liquid flow on the focussed ultrasound-induced heating in a simulated foetal brain. GJ Vella, VF Humphrey, FA Duck, SB Barnett. Ultrasound in Med. & Biol., Vol. 29, No. 8 pp. 1193-1204, 2003

• Ultrasound-Enhanced Systemic Thrombolysis for Acute Ischemic Stroke. Alexandrov AV, Molina CA, Grotta JC, Garami Z, Ford SR, Alvarez-Sabin J, Montaner J, Saqqur M, Demchuk AM, Moye LA, Hill MD, Wojner AW. N Engl J Med. 2004 Nov 18; 351(21):2170-2178 and

• Does low-energy ultrasound, known to enhance thrombolysis, affect the size of ischaemic brain damage? Härdig BM, Persson HW, Gido G, Olsson SB. J Ultrasound Med. 2003; 22:1301-8

• The output display standard: has it missed its target? Marsál K. Ultrasound Obst. Gynecol 2005; 25:211-214 and

• What Do Clinical Users Know Regarding Safety of Ultrasound During Pregnancy? (Sheiner E, Shoham-Vardi I, and Abramowicz J. J Ultrasound Med 2007 26: 319-325

• Effects of repeated prenatal ultrasound examinations on childhood outcome up to 8 years of age: follow-up of a randomised controlled trial. Newnham JP, Doherty DA, Kendall GE, Zubrick SR, Landau LL, Stanley FJ. The Lancet, Volume 364, 2004: 2038-2044