SonoSite Turbo Hard Reboot Instructions

This is a short video demonstration with instructions of how to perform a hard reboot on your SonoSite Turbo system should it freeze and be non-perational.

Most times when the system, touchpad, or keyboard freezes you can hold down the power button until it powers down for a soft reboot.  If this fails you have to move onto the hard reboot.

This should also work for your other clamshells systems (MicroMaxx, Titan, and Edge).  However, the S series is set up a little differently.  The Exporte has a whole different setup for reboots.

Clearing the Memory on a SonoSite Turbo

It is that time of year again with new residents and fellows for ultrasound programs.  Many Emergency Medicine programs are now using digital arching solutions for their ultrasound studies.  Also becoming popular are the use of middleware and/or PACS systems for quality assurance and education/feedback.

One problem that occurs if you are using a SonoSite system is that the studies are saved to the hard drive or internal memory before transmission to the middleware system, such as Q-Path.  Eventually the internal memory of the ultrasound unit will fill up.  When the memory is full the boot time can be longer and performance may suffer.  Most importantly you will NOT be able to save further studies to the hard drive in order to transmit to the arching solution you use.

Someone has to clear the memory periodically.  Unfortunately if you have several sites this could become a problem with schedules and new people in the program.  This short video is a walk through of how to clear the memory on the M-Turbo system from SonoSite, it also works for the Edge system.  Feel free to distribute the link to you people in your program or if you get that late night call asking how to clear the memory.

To make things easier to distribute you can also use this shortened link that will take you directly to the YouTube video:  http://bit.ly/clearturbo and is easier to remember.  Or you can use this QR Code: