Implementing a system to protect your transducers and transducer cords will be your number one customizing task. Surprisingly little attention has been paid to this issue by ultrasound vendors, likely due to the fact that historically, ultrasound carts were mostly parked in one location and the patient was brought to that location for imaging. Most older ultrasound machines were very poorly designed for high mobility applications. Newer point-of-care machines and carts are much better designed in terms of footprint, wheel assemblies and simplied keyboards, but they are still mostly lacking in good transducer cord management solutions. At 4000 to over 10,000 dollars each times three to four transducers on each machine, you have a big incentive to protect these most essential and pricy parts of your ultrasound eet. If your transducer cords are not properly secured it is almost guaranteed that you will at some point in time nd a transducer cord snugly wrapped around one of your ultrasound cart’s caster wheels (Fig.13.31). While this will predictably cause you severe agita and might even bring the occasional tear to an ultrasound director’s eye, it is an entirely avoidable event.