The Royal Surrey County Hospital has employed SONOSITE’s M-Turbo point-of-care ultrasound system for diagnosis and treatment in its intensive care unit.
Dr Justin KirkBayley, consultant intensivist and anaesthetist, explained: “The Royal Surrey County Hospital is a leading general hospital and specialist tertiary centre for cancer and hepatobiliary and oesophagogastric surgery, and our intensive care unit supports a lot of major surgical work. We had outgrown our previous ultrasound system in terms of the image quality we wanted to achieve, and upgraded to the M-Turbo so that we could broaden our range of ultrasound capabilities, as well as having an instrument suitable for training purposes.” “The M-Turbo is an asset for diagnosis and treatment purposes, meeting all our needs. We can accommodate several different probes and switch between them at the click of a button. It also allows us to perform echocardiography, offering the image quality that radiologists and cardiologists are used to and eliminating the need to borrow equipment from other departments. The easy to use interface, with its large, clearly labelled buttons, makes the system simple to learn and remember, so the M-Turbo is also a suitable training tool. There is no significant start up time, you can get scans up and running straight away, and the learning curve is very shallow; trainees pick things up very quickly. The M-Turbo’s robustness is equally important, as ITU is a rigorous environment.”
