SonoSite Expands Clinical Capabilities on S Series Products
22 August 2008 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
SonoSite, Inc. (Nasdaq:SONO) the world leader and specialist in
hand-carried ultrasound for the point-of-care, announced today that
it has begun customer shipments of its first major expansion of
capabilities for the S Series� ultrasound tools. The upgrade adds
four transducers covering a wide range of clinical applications to
the S Series product line and enables playback of the revolutionary
SonoSite Education Key� program training modules. It is available
for purchase to existing customers and can be easily downloaded
from a USB thumb drive. Award Winning Design Recently, the S Series
was recognized with its second, coveted design award, an
International Design Excellence Award (IDEA), from an annual,
juried competition co-sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society
of America (IDSA) and BusinessWeek, that highlights the most
innovative and exciting product and product concept designs of the
year. Out of 1517 total entries, only 12 awards were given in the
Medical and Scientific category. The SonoSite S Series product line
also won an iF Product Design award in March 2008 from the European
International Forum. With the S Series ultrasound tools, clinicians
get breakthrough image quality and technology that acquires the
optimal image in seconds with just two controls, packaged in the
first and only ZERO footprint ultrasound solution. S Series
ultrasound tools can be carried, mounted on a pole, or fixed on a
wall or ceiling, and of course, withstand being dropped from three
feet onto a hard surface. Additionally customers can use S Series
system transducers with SonoSite�s M-Turbo� product line. As with
the M-Turbo and MicroMaxx� systems, S Series products come with the
same, industry-leading, 5-year warranty on the system and
SonoSite-manufactured transducers. New Transducers Added to S
Series Customized Configurations L-25x/ 13-6 transducer for the
S-FAST� product - optimized for vascular and venous scanning,
examination of superficial structures and guidance of vascular
access procedures. The new transducer joins the P21x/5-1 phased
array and ICTx/8-5 curved array transducers on the S-FAST product,
as well as the C60x/5-2 curved array, L38x/10-5 linear array, and
HFL38x/13-6 linear array transducers, for abdominal, cardiac,
vascular, venous access, small parts and OB/Gyn emergency
applications. P-10x/ 8-4 transducer for the S-ICU� and S-Cath�
products - now available for pediatric cardiac and abdominal
scanning and for scanning the delicate structures of neonatal
heads. It joins the available suite of curved, linear and phased
array transducers that cover a range of critical care imaging and
interventional applications such as line placement, biopsy,
dialysis access, stent placement and vascular access. The C-60x/5-2
transducer for the S-MSK� product - designed to facilitate guidance
of hip injections. Just released in March of this year, the S-MSK
tool is the first ultrasound product customized for musculoskeletal
specialists. It provides exceptional imaging of superficial and
deep targets for a quick look assessment and guidance of
interventional procedures such as injections and aspirations of the
knee, shoulder, elbow and other joints in the body. The SLAx/ 13-6
high frequency linear transducer for the S-Nerve � product - for
guidance of pediatric peripheral nerve blocks and line placements.
The S-Nerve is available with a combination of curved and linear
array transducers for virtually every anatomical and clinical
anesthesia applications. The S-Nerve tool allows the
anesthesiologist to perform the most difficult upper and lower
extremity blocks as well as confidently place intravascular lines
in the desired vessels. Education Key for Training at the
Point-of-Care Leveraging the integration of Texas Instruments�
multimedia DaVinci� technology with its fourth generation product
platform, SonoSite�s Education Key� program is available on a USB
thumb drive that can be played directly on the S Series products.
The Education Key program features clinical training videos with
market specific versions for anesthesiology, emergency medicine and
critical care. Training modules are also available to help new
users quickly learn how to optimize the system. SonoSite�s
Education Key program can also be played on PC and MAC computers.
About SonoSite SonoSite, Inc. (www.sonosite.com) is the innovator
and world leader in hand-carried ultrasound. Headquartered near
Seattle, the company is represented by ten subsidiaries and a
global distribution network in over 100 countries. SonoSite�s
small, lightweight systems are expanding the use of ultrasound
across the clinical spectrum by cost-effectively bringing high
performance ultrasound to the point of patient care. The company
employs over 600 people worldwide.
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