BOTHELL, WA - SonoSite, Inc., specialists in hand-carried ultrasound for the point-of-care, has announced the first expansion of capabilities for the powerful M-Turbo™ system. The expanded platform includes four new transducers addressing anesthesia, surgery, venous access, musculoskeletal and adult and pediatric cardiology applications, plus further enhancements to emergency medicine documentation worksheets. It also enables playback on the M-Turbo system of the revolutionary SonoSite Education Key™ program training modules. Existing customers can easily upgrade their systems via a software download from a USB thumb drive. Customer shipments began this week.

SonoSite Portable Ultrasound Transducer Probe
"Ten years of focus and specialization on addressing the needs of clinicians at the point-of-care underlie the innovation of the M-Turbo system and its sister product line, the S Series™ ultrasound tools, that we introduced just a few months ago," said Kevin M. Goodwin, SonoSite President and CEO. "These products continue our tradition of setting a new performance benchmark in the industry. As exemplified by the new capabilities announced today, we continue to be committed to rapidly bringing innovations to our customers that help them deliver the best in patient care."


New Transducers
Together with the new transducers, the M-Turbo system now offers a total of 11 transducers to cover the full range of clinical and procedural guidance applications at the point-of-care. New transducers include:

* P10x/8-4 MHz Phased Array Transducer for pediatric cardiac, abdominal and head scanning. Its small footprint is superb for scanning neonatal head anatomy.
* SLAx/13-6 MHz Surgical Linear Array Transducer for superficial imaging and musculoskeletal, vascular, nerve and venous applications. It is also ideal for pediatric regional anesthesia applications including peripheral and neuroaxial blocks and line placement.
* TEEx/8-5 MHz Transesophageal Transducer for multiplane scans and provides a 180 degree view of adult cardiac anatomy. Both this transducer and the new D2x/2 MHz Continuous Wave Transducer are also compatible with the MicroMaxx® system.

SonoSite Portable Ultrasound Transducer Probe:
Education Key for Training at the Point-of-Care
Leveraging the integration of Texas Instruments' multimedia DaVinci™ technology, SonoSite's Education Key program is available on a USB thumb drive that can be played right on the M-Turbo system itself. The Education Key features clinical training videos with market specific versions for anesthesiology, emergency medicine and critical care. The M-Turbo system 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 and will be available soon for the S Series products.

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