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Voice Activated SonoSite Ultrasound System Keeps Hands Free to Perform Procedures


SonoSite just released their SonoRemote for controlling the company’s M-Turbo and S Series ultrasounds during interventional procedures like joint injections or central line placements. In addition to traditional style buttons, the remote control features voice recognition and can be programmed to understand commands in any language. So now you can hold the probe in one hand and the syringe in the other, and not have to fiddle with reaching over to the unit to take snapshots or change parameters.

  • Voice or touch activated
  • Programmable to your voice and language
  • Adjust system controls from a radius of 10 meters
  • No need to break the sterile field
  • Drop-tested to 3 feet
  • Works with M-Turbo® and S Series™
  • Press release: SonoSite Begins Customer Shipments Of Ultrasound Remote Control

    Product page: SonoRemote

    Flashbacks: M-Turbo™: New Portable Ultrasound from SonoSite ; SonoSite S-ICU™ Ultrasound Tool; S-Nerve™ from SonoSite; The SonoSite® MicroMaxx™; Titan

    *This blog post was originally published at Medgadget*

    Fetus Sonogram Cufflinks Make a Fashion Statement


    Continuing this week’s streak of medical fashion coverage, we found these custom sonogram cufflinks that are advertised as a perfect present for an expecting father. It would probably be out of taste to present a cardiac patient with cufflinks featuring echocardiography scans of his mitral regurgitation or aortic insufficiency from endocarditis.

    Product page: Sonogram Photo Cufflinks

    (hat tip: BoingBoing)

    *This blog post was originally published at Medgadget*

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