Bats, boats, baths, and vasculitis: The story of ultrasound in GCA

In this week's episode we interview Kinanah Yaseen, MD, a rheumatologist from Cleveland Clinic's department of rheumatic and immunologic diseases about using ultrasound for giant cell arteritis. ·        Intro by Adam J. Brown, MD 0:12 ·        Dr. Brown's recent patient 1:34 ·        History of ultrasound and GCA 3:20 ·        Episode overview 7:05 ·        History of echolocation; how bats helped us invent ultrasound 8:00 ·        What is a bat bomb? 14:56 ·        How the Titanic helped us invent ultrasound 16:48 ·        Neurologists bring ultrasound to medicine 20:09 ·        OB/GYN is next to use ultrasound 23:11 ·        Ultrasound image quality becomes better 26:32 ·