SonoSite Delivers First Customer Shipment of Its Second Decade
May 01 2008 - 7:00PM
Business Wire
SonoSite, Inc. (NASDAQ:SONO), the world leader and specialist in
hand-carried ultrasound for the point-of-care, said today that it
delivered the first customer shipment of its second decade to Keith
Boniface, MD, Director of Emergency Ultrasound at the George
Washington University Medical Center in Washington, DC. SonoSite is
celebrating its 10th year as a public company since its spin-off in
April 1998. Just back from teaching at an emergency medicine summit
in Beijing, China, Dr. Boniface returned to find his order for two
new M-Turbo systems had been delivered earlier in April. �SonoSite
thought about how emergency physicians practiced long before anyone
else,� remarked Dr. Boniface, who bought his first SonoSite system,
the 180, in 2001. �The advent of hand-carried ultrasound has
benefited the care of emergency department patients in almost all
aspects � resuscitation of the critically ill, rapid stabilization
of the trauma patient, and increasing the accuracy and safety of
procedures including vascular access. We are finding more and more
uses for the technology. It changes the management of our patients
and saves lives everyday.� Dr. Boniface, who is also Associate
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Residency Director at
the medical center, noted, �It is a testament to the impact of the
technology that emergency physicians coming out of residency today
feel uncomfortable practicing where ultrasound is not readily
available. The use of hand-carried ultrasound is spreading across
departments at this hospital. Anesthesia bought their first system
last year. Critical Care bought a system last month.� �With the
leaps in imaging technology that SonoSite has made,� Dr. Boniface
said, �there is no longer a trade-off between the convenience of
portability and image quality. The image quality of the M-Turbo is
incredible. It�s making great images attainable for anyone with a
little bit of training.� George Washington University Hospital is
the Level One Trauma Center closest to the White House, serves
62,000 emergency patients a year and is the home of one of the
oldest emergency medicine residencies in the nation. SonoSite
shipped the first hand-carried ultrasound system, the SonoSite
180�, in 1999. Today the company has an installed base of over
40,000 systems worldwide, has introduced four generations of
hand-carried technology, all weighing approximately 8 pounds or
less, and is bringing the benefits of ultrasound visualization to a
broad range of medical specialists, including emergency physicians,
intensivists, anesthesiologists, medics, sports medicine physicians
and others. SonoSite�s rugged, easy-to-use systems boot up in
seconds and are enabling clinicians to deliver better, faster,
safer and less expensive care to their patients. About SonoSite
SonoSite, Inc. (www.sonosite.com), is the innovator and world
leader in hand-carried ultrasound for the point-of-care.
Established as a public company on April 6, 1998, and headquartered
near Seattle, the company is represented today 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 and has a global
installed base of more than 40,000 systems.
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