VIDEO: Foxboro firefighters are now trained on a new tool to help patients while in the back of an ambulance.
The ultrasound device is now equipped with artificial intelligence to better pinpoint someone’s organs.
“Ultrasound images inherently aren’t clear pictures of what’s going on inside, so having that quick step to say okay the algorithm in the computer is seeing what I’m looking at – now I know I’m in the right place,” said Brian Foley, a Foxboro firefighter paramedic. The AI will actually label the organs on the screen of the iPad, so a paramedic can determine how severe an injury is more quickly, which is crucial when every minute could mean a matter of life or death.
Foley says the AI allows them to pass along information to the hospital quicker as well to get the OR ready for a trauma patient.