Royal United Hospital refreshes ultrasound

In front are trainee sonographer Catherine Elmes and ultrasound department assistant Jane Rosevear.  Behind are advanced practitioner sonographers Becca Morgan and Rita Phillips, team leader Tracey Blacker, advanced practitioner sonographers Elena Williams and Sue Jones and Toshiba Medical Systems applications specialist Helen Lockyer.

Royal United Hospital, Bath, has purchased two Toshiba Medical Systems Aplio i-800 ultrasound systems for use in obstetrics, gynaecology, abdominal and MSK applications.  The new scanners have replaced existing Toshiba equipment, so that users can now benefit from state-of-the-art technologies such as such Superb Microvascular Imaging, and ultra-wideband i-series transducers.

Team leader Tracey Blacker said: “In the past our department has always chosen Toshiba ultrasound equipment, which means that the products have a familiarity that aids training and also reduces the need for extensive applications support, an inevitable cause of reduction in throughput.

“Productivity is always important in a busy acute hospital setting and, as well as saving time, having the same equipment assists in probe connectivity – for several years the department had one linear probe shared between five machines.  Toshiba offers numerous training days up and down the country and the applications support and aftercare/service are excellent, so that we are able to get the most out of our equipment.”

See the full report on page 3 of the July 2017 issue of RAD Magazine.