Been using Kinnarp's chairs for almost two decades now and we at our lab are very satisfied with them. I think we're in to our third generation by now ;)
The chairs are adjustable in all kinds of ways and has soft paddings on the support for the elbows!
By tradition we, here in Linköping, Sweden, scan with our right hand, having the patient positioned on their left side facing the examiner AND the screen of the echo machine... Find it very comfortable to scan right handed since I *am* in fact right handed.
Can't stress enough on how important it is to sit comfortably to be able to relax while scanning...
Oh, and the beds are adjustable in hight as well, and has a "folding-down"-hatch on its left side, very convenient when you want to obtain a good apical 4C-view...

http://www.kinnarps.com/en/International/ProductsInspiration/Office/DeskChairs/Product/?prodid=121930

Best wishes

Catarina Sved
Licensed Sonographer
Linköping Heart center, Sweden

--- In echocardiography@yahoogroups.com, Gerson Lichtenberg <gershomsl@...> wrote:
>
> Most of our patients are scanned on height adjustable, drop-leaf tables. If
> they arrive on a bed or stretcher and cannot walk a couple of meters to the
> table, they are examined on their own beds.
>
> Since this is a right-handed lab (don't get me started on that),
> sonographers either stand or sit on the table/bed with the patient.
>
> In my left-handed past, I generally found that any height adjustable chair
> worked for me as long as the heights matched those of the table/stretcher. I
> never had any special features on the chairs.
>
> Gershom Lichtenberg, RDCS
> Echocardiographer
> Rambam Healthcare Campus
> Haifa, Israel
>
>
>

> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:44 AM, iseltzer <iseltzer@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > We are hoping to purchase new sonographer chairs for our lab. Could I
> > solicit your input?
> >
> > What product are you using and why do you like it (or dislike it)?
> > What key features should we look for?
> > And approximately how much can we expect to spend?
> >
> > We are scanning our lab patients on transport stretchers which can not be
> > height adjusted so a good chair is even more important to us. I would also
> > like to know if patients in your institution are routinely transferred to
> > adjustable exam tables for studies.
> >
> > Thank you for any advice you can give us.
> >
> > Irwin Seltzer
> > Montefiore Medical Center
> > Bronx, NY
> >
> >
> >
>