Vscan Air Wireless Ultrasound

Over 300 scans and procedures in, it’s a great probe. It has the views better than some competitors and the pocket portability that makes it a true handheld. Development team continues to add great features like M mode, Pulsed Wave Doppler, cardiac AI guidance, annotations, etc. I don’t find signal lag to be problematic on the very rare occurrence it happens. To Development Team, would love the ability to trace the outline of Doppler wave forms for VTI measurements. Especially handy with apple tablets given it has the Apple Pencil so the tracings themselves could be quite precise. Not sure why we can’t trace Doppler waveforms since it wouldn’t be probe hardware limited, just software. EDIT: edited rating to 3 stars, still missing ability to do VTI tracings on the app, mindray released their cardiac focused handheld which can do tissue doppler which is key in terms of diastolics. Uncertain why GE is lagging behind on this compared to competitors. Note to GE VScan Department: The competition is firing up GE! Let’s get VTI tracing and Tissue Doppler available to the handhelds! AI is great but to anyone mildly more comfortable with POCUS, VTI and TDI is 100% more useful. You guys have a great probe, awesome looking app, but you’re gonna lose marketshare with competitors willing to offer VTI tracing and Tissue Doppler on their handhelds! I tried to convince my department to get the GE VScans but they went with Mindray and noted the above. Hard to argue. Also Mindray has wireless charging built into their probe case, why can’t GE do the same? That and the above have been things users of VScan have been noting as missing for a while. If the software limitations are addressed, would be GLAD to give 5 stars, but with competition offering more, can’t seem to give 5 stars at the moment.

GE HealthCare has listened and had diligently worked on adding the features that were missing. Looks like a great update to the app. I hope to be able to go up to 5 stars once I had a bit more time to try the new version.

Over all I am very happy with the device and app. The Vscan clarity is very good considering the price, especially with the linear probe for MSK use. The app is very functional but is lacking some key features such as being able to annotate images. You can neither label images nor write notes within an exam. This is greatly problematic when reviewing past exams or noting pathology found. I hope the GE team will add this soon as this function is available with competing App based handheld ultrasound machines. I find this unacceptable from a company with such a great name and reputation and hope this is rectified. The only other problem I have experienced is the signal cuts out intermittently for no rhyme or reason. It does this at least 1 or 2 times during every exam but is very transient. I can see the image freeze briefly then 2 seconds later can see the “low signal” graphic in the top left corner appear and then return to the typical full bars graphic. One time I was doing an ultrasound guided knee injection and the signal was dropping so frequently that it was difficult to do the procedure.