Liverpool Women’s Hospital

SonoSite’s X-Porte helps Dr Abraham Ssenoga to administer epidurals under ultrasound guidance. Anaesthetists at Liverpool Women’s Hospital are using ultrasound guidance to help administer epidurals. The hospital purchased a SonoSite X-Porte point-of-care system last year to use for ultrasound-guided epidurals.  Consultant anaesthetist Dr Abraham Ssenoga explained: “Its large screen appealed to us and, with no buttons […]

Liverpool Women’s Hospital sonographers Victoria McAllister and Rebecca Tarbuck, clinical tutor Marianne Hamer, sonographers Zoe Lewis and Beverley Cheetham, clinical lead for imaging Colin Diment with Siemens Healthcare regional sales manager Bernadette Leonard. Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust is the first in the UK to install the new Acuson S1000 diagnostic ultrasound system from Siemens […]

Shown on a training course for the new equipment are ultrasonographers Beverley Cheetham, Lorene Korb and Marianne Hamer, with Toshiba ultrasound sales specialist Bernard Vincent and clinical ultrasound applications specialist Paula Connor. Following the purchase of eight Toshiba ultrasound systems in 2011, Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust has ordered a further six systems this year. […]

Dr Philip Barclay using the SonoSite M-Turbo.     Liverpool Women’s Hospital uses the SonoSite M-Turbo point-of-care ultrasound system for guiding anaesthesia for a range of procedures in obstetrics and gynaecology.  Consultant obstetric anaesthetist Dr Philip Barclay said: “In obstetrics we principally use the M-Turbo to guide spinal epidural blocks for caesarean sections. It reduces […]