Systems and methods for automatic determination of needle guides for vascular access

A system configured for automatic determination of a needle guide for establishing vascular access, comprising:

• an ultrasound probe;
• a console operably coupled to the ultrasound probe, the console including:
• one or more processors;
• a memory including instructions configured to instantiate one or more processes when executed by the one or more processors for:
• the automatic determination of the needle guide in accordance with ultrasound-imaging data and historical data including data from previous procedures regarding whether a previous needle guide was successful for establishing vascular access in a patient, the automatic determination of the needle guide using at least a machine-learning model trained with the historical data;
• automatic selection of a blood vessel of one or more blood vessels below a skin surface of the patient for establishing vascular access in accordance with the ultrasound-imaging data and the historical data, the automatic selection of the blood vessel using at least the machine-learning model trained with the historical data;
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• automatic determination of a vascular access device (“VAD”) from an inventory of available VADs in accordance with the ultrasound-imaging data, the automatic determination of the VAD using at least the machine-learning model trained with the historical data in view of VAD occupancy of the blood vessel or VAD purchase length of the blood vessel for each VAD of the inventory of available VADs;
• and
• a display screen optionally integrated into the console, the display screen configured to display:
• an ultrasound image including the one or more blood vessels below the skin surface of the patient;
• and
• the needle guide resulting from the automatic determination of the needle guide for establishing vascular access to the one or more blood vessels in the ultrasound image.