Ascension Via Christi Hospital adds Pediatric Echocardiogram program

PITTSBURG, Kans. — Healthcare simply received just a little extra accessible in southeast Kansas.

Ascension Through Christi in Pittsburg has added a pediatric echocardiogram program, and it’s all because of the brand new pediatric probe.

The hospital will now have the ability to present ultrasound photos of kids’s hearts such as you see right here.
Lead Echo Tech Tyler Matthews says this may assist centralize the imaging course of and permit sufferers to remain nearer to dwelling.

“It simply opens up the provision to do children from beginning till they flip 18. As soon as they hit a sure dimension, we’ll begin utilizing the grownup probe on them and simply do a unique protocol. Nevertheless, on the smaller sufferers, on the larger probe, we will have bother getting in between the ribs, so we want that smaller probe that has the extra element,” stated Tyler Matthews, Lead Echocardiogram Technologist.

Earlier than this addition, the closest pediatric echocardiogram program had been in Joplin.

Matthews says he’s seen sufferers who’ve needed to make appointments in Kansas Metropolis, Springfield, and Wichita.