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Clarius | Handheld Wireless Ultrasound Scanner
The freedom that a
small wireless ultra-
sound machine like
this provides is ter-
rific. Say you have a
patient with a pain
pump in physical
therapy, and it
appears his continu-
ous catheter isn't
working well. You
can grab this, take it
over, set it up in 30
or 40 seconds, and
see exactly what's
going on.
It has built-in
Bluetooth, so you
can use it with an
iPhone, an iPad or an Android, and the images are pretty amazing.
They're not quite where you'd want them to be to do nerve blocks, but
you can see tendons and joints really well, so it's great for muscu-
loskeletal ultrasound.
And the price is great because all you need is the transducer. You
don't have to spend an extra 20 or 30 thousand dollars for the ultra-
sound machine.
• PORTABLE ULTRASOUND With the Clarius wireless system, you just grab the
transducer and go. It works with any smart phone or pad.
