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Beatson Cancer Charity awarded a £30,000 grant to The Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre for a portable echo machine which will be used to conduct bedside echocardiograms.
Echo machines are ultrasound machines which enable clinicians to see the functioning of the heart. Some cancer treatments can impact the heart so monitoring and investigation is often required. Moving a patient to a static echo machine on a different floor or within another hospital can be an uncomfortable experience, especially for patients who are feeling sick or in pain. The portable echo machine, will allow echocardiograms to be carried out at the patient’s bedside without the need to move them which will help to improve patient comfort and enhance the Beatson’s echo service. This new machine will particularly benefit inpatients within the Beatson’s Enhanced Care Unit who are often too sick or in too much pain to be moved or transferred which can delay their echocardiograms.
For more information about this project, Email: funding@beatsoncancercharity.org
For further enquiries call our funding team on 0141 212 0505.
