Last year GE & Volcano announced the first install of the Innova solution with the integrated IVUS option, in effect eliminated a separate “ultrasound cart” from the cath lab area when performing intra-coronary ultrasound procedures.
This week GE announced a time-motion study that, “found the Innova IVUS cuts procedure time by up to 40%.”
If you have ever worn lead all day or worse yet had to lie on a cath lab table you can appreciate the implication of these findings. Of course this assumes the findings hold up across a wider application of this integrated approach in the market place.
Yet, it seems reasonable to expect other “integration efforts” that combine cardiovascular ultrasound with other devices will emerge onto the market in the next few years.
A few we could imagine include:
-ultrasound+defibrillator
-ultrasound+bedside hemo-dynamic monitor
-ultrasound+PDA
-ultrasound+anesthesia cart
The “disappearance” of a separate & distinct ultrasound cart/monitor could have far reaching implications across the industry.
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