From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-10-08 06:09:01 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] ten thousand dollar hand held ultrasound machine
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
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Miniature ultrasound machines are starting to make their way into
ordinary doctors' offices, where they may someday be as common as
stethoscopes and EKGs. A pocket-sized one weighing less than 2 pounds
hit the market last week...
The portable ultrasound devices are changing [evaluations and access].
SonoSite Inc. of Bothell, Wash., came out with one in 1999. It was
followed by GE Healthcare, a suburban Milwaukee unit of General
Electric. They mostly are used in emergency rooms...
$10,000 Acuson P10
...
Siemens Medical Solutions, the Malvern, Pa.-based unit of the German
company Siemens AG, initially will sell the device for traditional
heart imaging
...
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Siemens ultrasound: http://www.pocketultrasound.com
SonoSite: http://www.sonosite.com
GE Healthcare: http://www.gehealthcare.com
Just a few years ago the cheapest portable unit was $40,000.
I don't think it will be all that long before these show up in regular
veterinary and physicians' offices (albeit with training or with an
arrangement with a radiologist who reads transmitted results).
Sukie (not a vet)
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