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To: Wally Mastroly who wrote (7702)	8/12/1999 2:51:00 PM
From: marc ultra	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15132

Wally, re SONO:I took a look at their site sonosite.com. The screen on the ultrasound device looks extremely small as would be expected. They appear to be getting a bunch of education courses going to get physicians and technicians educated on using it. My very early guess at this point is that if the machine is OK it could get a lot of use in Obstetrics where you're running around and want a quick evaluation of the fetus and placenta etc. Given today's environment this could be subject to cost benefit analysis studies because besides the cost in money, issues will be looked at like if you end up doing more ultrasounds then would have been done with a regular ultrasound machine are you then possibly increasing the unnecessary c-section rate etc. I don't know what the studies are with this device but these are the issues that will come up with long term major use which only major studies may answer I suspect for other uses like abdominal, pelvic and other ultrasounds the current large machines would continue to be used at least until some time way out in the future when perhaps people become trained and comfortable that they can receive and interpret images as well as they would with the large machine which is a giant question mark. All this is very early conjecture on my part and should be taken with a grain of salt Marc