SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEDICAL ULTRASOUND WITH MONITORING PAD AND MULTIFUNCTION MONITORING SYSTEM

Disclosed is an ultrasound multifunction system having a monitoring pad configured for application to a patient, an ultrasound probe that connects to the monitoring pad and has a plurality of ultrasound transducers, an ultrasound beamforming device configured to control the ultrasound transducers to focus an ultrasound beam into the patient and to read resulting reflections of the ultrasound beam, and a multifunction monitoring system. In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, the multifunction monitoring system is configured to monitor other patient measures unrelated to ultrasound and has a display configured to generate a concurrent display of (i) an acquired ultrasound image based on the resulting reflections of the ultrasound beam and (ii) information based on the other patient measures. In some implementations, the ultrasound beamforming device is integrated into the multifunction monitoring system.