Steroid injections more effective with ultrasound guidance

Dr Alice Leahy with the Esaote MyLab Gamma.

Southampton General Hospital has acquired an Esaote MyLab Gamma portable ultrasound scanner to take imaging facilities into the community for paediatric patients in the region.

In 2011 the first paediatric rheumatology outreach clinic was set up to offer the same level of specialised care as available at Southampton General Hospital.  The hospital has become the regional centre for paediatric rheumatology and now runs outreach clinics in Basingstoke, Winchester, Poole, Salisbury, Dorchester, Chichester and Worthing, with three more to open in the next 12 months.

“The Esaote MyLab Gamma offers the best greyscale resolution and Doppler,” said consultant paediatric rheumatologist Dr Alice Leahy. “We need the Doppler sensitivity of a high end diagnostic machine.  With the other systems we evaluated when we used Doppler we lost greyscale resolution while with the MyLab Gamma it was consistent.”

See the full report on page 10 of the April 2015 issue of RAD Magazine.