Cardiology Clinical Advance
Adelaide Cardiology is the first cardiology practice in the Asia Pacific region to take delivery of the Philips CX50 CompactXtreme portable cardiac ultrasound system. These compact and portable machines will help to improve the quality of care in patients in both metropolitan and rural South Australia.
Philips Healthcare and distribution partner LifeHealthcare have celebrated the delivery of four Philips CX50 CompactXtreme Echocardiography units to Adelaide Cardiology.
Designed to meet the needs of cardiologists for clear diagnostic data, the new compact system combines the image quality expected of a premium, full-size system with the added convenience of portability.
Residents of Australia’s regional and remote areas often travel long distances to receive specialist healthcare services, including cardiac imaging. Now Adelaide Cardiology is proud to provide the most-advanced cardiac ultrasound scans to patients wherever they are located with the new Philips CX50 portable cardiac ultrasound machine.
Echocardiography Specialist and Partner at Adelaide Cardiology, Dr Patrick Disney says the Philips CX50 offers significantly superior imaging quality and this combined with its size and portability means very accurate information for their patients, wherever they are – in a metropolitan hospital or regional centres like Broken Hill or Murray Bridge.
Accurate information leads to better clinical care. Being able to transport the CX50 to different locations improves the efficiency of our machine use, and allows us greater flexibility to meet the variable workloads in different regional areas” Dr Disney said.
By using the CX50 in our rural and regional centres, Adelaide Cardiology is continuing its charter of providing the highest quality cardiac care to all patients, regardless of location. Our technicians also benefit from being exposed to the latest technology and equipment, especially the younger trainees in our training programme who are kept up-to-date with the latest developments” Disney said.
The Philips CX50 is perfectly suited to meet our current needs and complements our larger fixed metropolitan echo machines” he said.
This confidence in diagnosis anywhere anytime was at the heart of the development of the Philips CX50” says Doxie Davis, Philips Ultrasound, Director of Asia Pacific.
Clinicians told us that small, portable systems are beneficial, as long as the image quality can help them make a confident diagnosis. The CX50 was not just designed to consistently deliver high quality images, even in technically challenging patients, but also includes the full range of clinical imaging tools and workflow features found in premium echocardiography system. Therefore it offers no trade of performance with the portability” Davis said.
Echocardiography Manager at Adelaide Cardiology, Janet Hemsley says her staff of Echo-cardiographers are very excited about the new CX50 systems.
The machines are exceedingly user-friendly so that learning how to use them has been very rapid. Within two days of installation and instruction, our staff are now eager to take the CX50s to all our remote sites, so they can deliver the same high quality service that we offer in our metropolitan and suburban sites. Information that was difficult or impossible to obtain previously with respect to cardiac function is now at our fingertips” Hemsley said.
