Subject: VULCAN VL-10 Lithotripter
I have been using your Vulcan VL-10 Lithotripter for the last 3 ½ years. I am quite pleased with its performance. There are very few points that I would like to highlight about this lithotripter. It works very well for the kidney stones but what I found out is that it is quite pain free, not even 3% of our patients required sedation or analgesia. For upper ureteric stones it has success rate of 85 to 90%.We ad presented a paper in THE USICON'97. More importantly it can be dealt with in situ and does not need either pushback or stenting.
The fragmentation is very fine but it seems to be related to the power used, thus it gets better as the operator gets experience with the machine.Last but not the least I found this machine to be very robust. Except for minor technical problems with the table we had very little downtime and virtually no loss of working time.
I would recommend this machine to either an individual or an institutional buyer.
Dr. D. R. Thakar