AAGBI gets a sharper view of needles

With a Philips Healthcare Sparq are point of care business development manager Sue Harris, point of care sales and applications specialist Vanessa Light, consultant in anaesthesia  Dr William Harrop-Griffiths and Philips Healthcare UK and Ireland md Neil Mesher.

Philips Healthcare reports increasing success in the areas of anaesthesia and pain medicine with its latest portable ultrasound system.  Newly-appointed managing director Neil Mesher recently visited the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland’s annual meeting in Bournemouth to see the new technology demonstrated on the company’s stand.

The Sparq scanner is designed to make the scanning and interpreting of quality ultrasound images at the point of care as simple as possible.  Needle visualisation enhances presentation of the needle without degrading the surrounding tissue image, facilitating quick needle guidance to the target anatomy.  To aid out-of-plane procedures, L12-4 and C6-2 transducers have a centreline mark that corresponds to a centreline on the image.  An on-screen gridline display provides visual target and distance estimation, while depth markers deliver instant information about image depth, with no need to perform a specific measurement.

See this report on page 10 of the December 2012 issue of RAD Magazine.