Intraoperative Ultrasound - Your Viewing Finger

Real-time diagnostic and staging information for planning your surgery strategy with:

and transducers:

  • Intraoperative Biplane 8814 — world's first surgical simultaneous biplane imaging transducer, for superior needle guidance. Sterile single-use needle guides available.
  • Intraoperative 8815 — I-shaped transducer, for interventional procedures. Sterile, single-use needle guide and offset cable is a real advantage during biopsy or ablation.
  • T-Shaped Intraoperative 8816 — T-shaped transducer, featuring high-resolution and deep penetration.
  • Intraoperative Biplane 8824 — I and T shaped transducer, specially designed to reach areas like the liver dome, bilary glands and pancreas. Sterile single-use needle guides available.
  • Hockey Stick 8809 — unique shape and flexible tip makes it easier to image difficult to access areas as well as perform procedures such as the Whipple.

BK Medical surgical transducers feature:

  • Excellent image quality, with high resolution and deep penetration.
  • Contrast Imaging* capabilities.
  • Sterilization technique compatibility.
  • Ergonomic design.
  • Extended cable length, for easier maneuvering even outside the sterile field.

Clinical Advantages

Intraoperative ultrasound has consistently been shown to be significantly more sensitive compared to other imaging techniques.1 By revealing more lesions, by better defining the relationship between biliary structures, and by improving discrimination between benign and malignant lesions, intraoperative ultrasound has been proven again and again to improve diagnosis2.

Multiple indications for intraoperative ultrasound may be present during a single operation. For example during hepatic surgery, intraoperative ultrasound is initially indicated to obtain new information, then to guide biopsy and hepatectomy, and finally to confirm complete resection of lesions and to exclude intraoperative complications3.

References:
1. US, CT, MR imaging and CTAP
2. Acta Radiologica 41 (2000) 97-100
3. AJR (2002) Nov: 179 1347-1348 (letter)
4. Surg Clin Am 84 (2004) 1085-1111

* In the USA, contrast-enhanced ultrasound has not been market cleared by the FDA, with the exception of only select cardiac imaging applications.