M-Turbo is key to emergency echocardiography

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Dr Susanna Price.

 

Royal Brompton Hospital in London, said to be home to the UK’s largest specialist heart and lung centre, uses a SonoSite M-Turbo point-of-care ultrasound system for emergency focused transthoracic echocardiography. 

 

Consultant cardiologist and intensivist Dr Susanna Price explained: “The M­Turbo is solely dedicated to emergency use on the ICU.  Fast boot-up is a great advantage in life-threatening situations, and being equipped with a cardiac package and a vascular probe means it serves a dual purpose.”

 

“We use ultrasound guidance for all our central venous access, for performing pleural drainage and, in emergency situations we use the M-Turbo for focused transthoracic echocardiography.  We have retrieved patients from other units where the availability of ultrasound equipment including echocardiography capability cannot be guaranteed, and the M-Turbo has been very useful as a hand-carried system in these circumstances.”

 

See the full report on page 8 of the July 2011 issue of RAD Magazine.

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