The recent Webinar Wednesday session “Basic Tips and Tricks: How to Increase an Ultrasound Transducers Useful Life” was presented by Larry Nguyen, CEO and CTO of Summit Imaging. The session was sponsored by Summit Imaging and eligible for 1 credit from the ACI.
In this 60-minute webinar, Nguyen provided a demonstration and analysis to educate clinical engineers on common ultrasound transducer handling mistakes as a means to increase the life of their equipment and better serve patients. As health care facilities are catching up on elective procedures, the utilization of ultrasound equipment is significantly increasing. This is a leading indicator of increased ultrasound transducer use and failures. There is good news, a significant amount of failures can be prevented with education and awareness of common accidental handling issues.
Attendees gained additional knowledge from Nguyen during a question-and-answer session toward the end of his presentation. One question was, “Does your technical support team help diagnose probe issues?” He explained that Summit Imaging provides that and added that a large portion of the support provide is focused on identifying if it’s a machine issue or a transducer issue.
He answered another question by explaining the importance of the early detection of the issues. The complete question-and-answer session is available via the on-demand recording of the webinar at WebinarWednesday.live.
Attendees provided feedback regarding the webinar via a survey that included the question, “What did you like most about today’s webinar?”
“The presenter was prepared, well-informed and provided practical suggestions,” Biomed Manager P. Phillips said.
“All the good information about the differences between the OEM and the generic transducers,” Biomedical Specialist H. Matos said.
“Examples, practical descriptions,” Diagnostic Imaging Physicist A. Browne said.
For more information, visit WebinarWednesday.live.