Regional Anesthesia Shifts to Ultrasound Guided Delivery
June 28, 2010 by letchells
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While regional anesthesia has existed for many decades, the development of highly advanced ultrasound systems over the last 20 years has changed the specialty’s practice substantially. Traditional regional anesthesia delivery relied upon anatomical landmarks and peripheral nerve stimulation to identify nerve location and guide the clinician. Given the variability amongst people, and the difficulty of [...]
eTRAX™: CIVCO’s Breakthrough Needle Guidance System
December 22, 2009 by letchells
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eTRAX: CIVCO’s Breakthrough Needle Guidance System
CIVCO Medical Solutions has introduced eTRAX, a breakthrough needle guidance system, expanding real-time image-guided navigation into a new dimension. Featuring an electromagnetic sensor embedded into the needle tip, eTRAX is an image-guidance tool kit which supports image fusion for ultrasound and enables real-time 3D instrument guidance in a [...]