Viamo

Royal Victoria looks at use of iodine-125 seeds

Royal Victoria Infirmary consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon Mr Adam Critchley, consultant radiologist Dr George Petrides, consultant radiologist and breast screening programme director Dr Nidhi Sibal, advanced practitioner radiographers Merilyn Cockburn and Jenni Scott and clinical scientist and nuclear medicine physicist Dr Richard Peace. Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne has been running a series […]

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Leighton Hospital’s chest specialists perform scans at the bedside

Staff nurse Sharon Earp, ward manager Jo Field, Toshiba Medical Systems ultrasound applications specialist Paula Connor, housekeeper Emma Clare Heath and junior sister Rebecca Stott. Leighton Hospital, part of Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has used charity funds to purchase a Toshiba Viamo portable ultrasound system for the chest ward.  This will enable the […]

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Portsmouth installs 15 ultrasound systems trust-wide

Student sonographer Grace Adams, radiology department assistants Marc Beveridge and Lorraine Angus, student sonographer Michelle Cutsforth, sonographer Karen Torpey, superintendent sonographer Catherine Leckie, radiology department assistant Kelly Mace and sonographers Helen Appleton and Katrina Coward. Toshiba Medical Systems has completed the installation of 15 ultrasound systems across Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust.  The trust was looking […]

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Scunthorpe can carry out nuchal scanning with ease

Ultrasound clinical lead Kirsty Kent with ultrasonographers Beverley Logan, Karin Hutson, Emma Marrian, Wayne Pattinson and Jane Wood at Scunthorpe General Hospital. Over the past 15 months, Scunthorpe General Hospital, part of Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has undertaken  a major capital investment programme.  A new purpose-built obstetrics department was completed in […]

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Altitude sickness research at breathtaking heights

Pictured at 19,974 feet , with the Huayna Potosí  mountain range in the background, are Toshiba clinical applications specialist Shane Hanlon and expedition leader Andrew Beck holding the Toshiba Viamo system, with the APEX team. For the benefit of the charity and professional climber, it is essential that research continues to improve the understanding of […]

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Blood flow in hiking dinghy sailors under scrutiny

Dr Norman Byrd with one of team GBR’s Olympic hopefuls Ben Palmer using the hiking simulator and Toshiba’s Viamo ultrasound system.   Toshiba Medical Systems has been assisting Dr Norman Byrd’s research project at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy with a Viamo portable ultrasound system.   Dr Byrd is researching the effect on […]

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Variety of uses for ultrasound at Pontefract

At a training session by Toshiba Medical Systems for Mid-Yorks NHS Trust are Toshiba ultrasound specialist Dawn Ingham, advanced practitioner sonographers Sandra Morrissey, Rachel Barr and Diane Playforth, with Toshiba ultrasound applications specialist Louise Higgins on the right.   Toshiba Medical Systems has supplied ultrasound equipment to recently opened hospitals in Pontefract and Wakefield.   […]

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Three Aplio MX systems for Pilgrim Hospital

Pictured, from left, are sonographers Claire Hughes and Mandy Holland, superintendent sonographer Gill Massey, Toshiba clinical applications specialist Shane Hanlon and sonographers Chrissy Craven and Sheila Farrow.   Pilgrim Hospital, Boston, part of United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, has three new Toshiba Aplio MX ultrasound systems, shared between the general radiology and obstetrics departments.   […]

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