Doppler Ultrasound

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I'd like to purchase a basic doppler ultrasound machine for vascular assessments. Some of the units come with printers while others don't. Is a printer needed or print out or what are the advantages to having a printer?

 

Hi Zac - it would be valuable to have some record of the doppler procedure for your patient notes. ALGEOS do a doppler which interfaces with your computer if you have one in your consult room - it can record output to a file or picture and allow you to attach it to a patient record (if thats how you take patient notes).

 

you should get a doppler with bi -directional flow indicated by arrow display and headphones. headphones come with this type of doppler. in assessing patients in my hospital work i found this more important than a printer. If you purchase a cheaper doppler without bi -directional flow the quick assessment of doppler sounds is more difficult and unreliable. A mono -directional flow doppler should be used with a cuff to measure pressure which is more time consuming than sound evaluation . Experts in the field will say that the most accurate picture is given by ABPI plus sound evaluation. They did not have a bog standard mono-directional doppler in mind when saying this.