Coronavirus: Israeli tech helps doctors train in crucial lung ultrasound

The coronavirus emergency has placed an unprecedented amount of pressure on medical staff in hospitals all over the world. In order to help professionals who have been re-assigned to care for coronavirus patients, Israeli company Simbionix, the simulator division of 3D Systems Corporation, has launched a special project to train them for free in performing and analyzing lung ultrasounds.

Highly contagious, COVID-19 has dramatically inflated the number of patients who require hospitalization and even intensive care for respiratory-related symptoms and often decimated the staff caring for them, either infecting doctors and nurses or forcing them to enter quarantine.