Bladder scanner offered for nurses

EchoNous, based in Seattle, has released the EchoNous Bladder™, an all-electronic, non-mechanical, bladder scanning tool for nurses.

The system allows quick determination of bladder volume, and EchoNous features a high-quality ruggedized probe.

“Our world-class team of ultrasound engineers and machine learning scientists have remained focused on moving beyond the 30-year old probe technology being used today in bladder scanning,” said Niko Pagoulatos, Ph.D., COO of EchoNous. “While the entire ultrasound industry abandoned mechanical probes in the late 1980s, conventional bladder scanners have continued on with this outdated technology. We decided it was time to raise the bar for this application space.”

The higher levels of data captured by AI-driven medical tools can help raise actual performance for more precise measurements on real patients, the company said.

EchoNous Bladder is designed to be smoothly fanned from hip to hip.

EchoNous is a company of private investment firm KKR.