SonoSite Introduces Seventh Transducer for Anesthesiologists' Practice On MicroMaxx SystemThe C11e ultrasound transducer, newly

  
    
  
  
    
      SonoSite, Inc. (NASDAQ:SONO), the world leader in hand-carried 
      ultrasound, announced today at the American Society of 
      Anesthesiologists' Annual Meeting that it has introduced a new 
      high-frequency broadband transducer, the C11e/8-5. With its small 
      footprint, the C11e transducer provides enhanced image quality and 
      deeper penetration for visualizing the delivery of regional anesthesia 
      and line placement. This is the seventh MicroMaxx® 
      system transducer offered by SonoSite for a variety of important 
      anesthesiology procedures and assessments. Customer shipments are 
      planned to begin by the end of November.
    
    
      The C11e transducer is optimal for infraclavicular, supraclavicular and 
      femoral blocks. Its curved array format displays the structures 
      surrounding a nerve that need to be monitored while inserting a needle 
      or catheter.
    
    
      “The C11e transducer yields a crisp image for 
      nerve block placement and its small size allows for greater ease-of-use 
      and precision,” said Jacques Chelly, MD, 
      Professor and Vice Chair of Clinical Research and Director of Acute 
      Intervention and Perioperative Pain Service at the University of 
      Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Presbyterian Shady 
      Side Hospital. “Its addition to the MicroMaxx 
      system’s suite of transducers underscores the 
      thoughtful, consistent, and high-quality product design and service that 
      characterize SonoSite’s uncommon commitment to 
      the anesthesiologist.”
    
    
      “SonoSite understands that the regional 
      anesthesiologists’ needs cannot be adequately 
      met with a single transducer,” said Thomas J. 
      Dugan, Senior Vice President for Global Marketing and U.S. Sales. “Relying 
      on the input of leading anesthesiologists, SonoSite designed the 
      easy-to-use MicroMaxx system with the precise features that an 
      anesthesiologist needs – exceptional 2D image 
      quality to monitor needle-nerve interaction and to visualize local 
      anesthetic spread; the durability to withstand the rigors of the 
      perioperative environment, including a water-resistant keyboard that can 
      be wiped down and sanitized; and a proper selection of transducers 
      designed specifically to image multiple anatomical locations and body 
      types.”
    
    
      SonoSite’s line of transducers provides 
      exceptional visual acuity for imaging the interscalene, supraclavicular, 
      infraclavicular, sciatic, femoral, popliteal, lumbar plexus and other 
      epidurals. SonoSite is one of the first ultrasound companies with 
      transducers that have regulatory clearance for epidural and lumbar 
      plexus imaging.
    
    
      The C11e transducer is on display at SonoSite’s 
      booth, #939, at the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ 
      Annual Meeting at McCormick Place in Chicago, October 14 – 
      18.
    
    
      About the MicroMaxx System
    
    
      Weighing less than 8 pounds, the portability and high performance of the 
      MicroMaxx system is rapidly changing patient assessment at the 
      point-of-care in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, vascular access, 
      critical care and even in the physician’s 
      office. A five-year warranty on the system and most of its transducers 
      is a standard feature which dramatically lowers the cost of owning a 
      system in an industry that typically charges 7-10% of a product’s 
      purchase price in annual service contracts.
    
    
      About SonoSite
    
    
      SonoSite, Inc. (www.sonosite.com) 
      is the innovator and world leader in hand-carried ultrasound, with an 
      installed base of more than 25,000 systems. The company, headquartered 
      near Seattle, is represented by eight subsidiaries and a global 
      distribution network in over 75 countries. SonoSite’s 
      small, lightweight systems are expanding the use of ultrasound across 
      the clinical spectrum by cost-effectively bringing high performance 
      ultrasound to the point of patient care. The company employs 
      approximately 500 people worldwide.
    
  
SonoSite, Inc. (NASDAQ:SONO), the world leader in hand-carried
ultrasound, announced today at the American Society of
Anesthesiologists' Annual Meeting that it has introduced a new
high-frequency broadband transducer, the C11e/8-5. With its small
footprint, the C11e transducer provides enhanced image quality and
deeper penetration for visualizing the delivery of regional anesthesia
and line placement. This is the seventh MicroMaxx(R) system transducer
offered by SonoSite for a variety of important anesthesiology
procedures and assessments. Customer shipments are planned to begin by
the end of November.

   The C11e transducer is optimal for infraclavicular,
supraclavicular and femoral blocks. Its curved array format displays
the structures surrounding a nerve that need to be monitored while
inserting a needle or catheter.

   "The C11e transducer yields a crisp image for nerve block
placement and its small size allows for greater ease-of-use and
precision," said Jacques Chelly, MD, Professor and Vice Chair of
Clinical Research and Director of Acute Intervention and Perioperative
Pain Service at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's
Presbyterian Shady Side Hospital. "Its addition to the MicroMaxx
system's suite of transducers underscores the thoughtful, consistent,
and high-quality product design and service that characterize
SonoSite's uncommon commitment to the anesthesiologist."

   "SonoSite understands that the regional anesthesiologists' needs
cannot be adequately met with a single transducer," said Thomas J.
Dugan, Senior Vice President for Global Marketing and U.S. Sales.
"Relying on the input of leading anesthesiologists, SonoSite designed
the easy-to-use MicroMaxx system with the precise features that an
anesthesiologist needs - exceptional 2D image quality to monitor
needle-nerve interaction and to visualize local anesthetic spread; the
durability to withstand the rigors of the perioperative environment,
including a water-resistant keyboard that can be wiped down and
sanitized; and a proper selection of transducers designed specifically
to image multiple anatomical locations and body types."

   SonoSite's line of transducers provides exceptional visual acuity
for imaging the interscalene, supraclavicular, infraclavicular,
sciatic, femoral, popliteal, lumbar plexus and other epidurals.
SonoSite is one of the first ultrasound companies with transducers
that have regulatory clearance for epidural and lumbar plexus imaging.

   The C11e transducer is on display at SonoSite's booth, #939, at
the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Annual Meeting at McCormick
Place in Chicago, October 14 - 18.

   About the MicroMaxx System

   Weighing less than 8 pounds, the portability and high performance
of the MicroMaxx system is rapidly changing patient assessment at the
point-of-care in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, vascular access,
critical care and even in the physician's office. A five-year warranty
on the system and most of its transducers is a standard feature which
dramatically lowers the cost of owning a system in an industry that
typically charges 7-10% of a product's purchase price in annual
service contracts.

   About SonoSite

   SonoSite, Inc. (www.sonosite.com) is the innovator and world
leader in hand-carried ultrasound, with an installed base of more than
25,000 systems. The company, headquartered near Seattle, is
represented by eight subsidiaries and a global distribution network in
over 75 countries. SonoSite's small, lightweight systems are expanding
the use of ultrasound across the clinical spectrum by cost-effectively
bringing high performance ultrasound to the point of patient care. The
company employs approximately 500 people worldwide.