Your Guide to Medical Imaging Equipment

While it's always important to have the right tools for serving patients, sometimes budgeting for those tools can get complicated. This is especially true of imaging equipment like C-arms, where the up-front cost of an outright purchase can be daunting. Fortunately, there are other options available to the facility that needs to get work done now, but might not have surplus cash until later.

Keep reading to learn a few scenarios where you'll be better off buying a C-arm, as well as a few where you may want to put that purchase on the back burner and rent, at least for a while...

Purchasing is not the only option to get the C-arm or X-ray equipment you need into your facility. But once you find alternatives like renting or subscribing, you may also find they look a lot alike. So, how do you decide which is the best fit for your needs?

To shed some light on the decision, we break down the differences between C-arm and X-ray rental and subscription plans below.

It wasn't long ago that OEC 9900 C-arms were still rare on the secondary market. As the model has matured, however, the availability of pre-owned 9900s has increased significantly. This increase has prompted a shift in cost that moves the 9900 into a pricing bracket accessible to a much wider range of facilities. If you've considered the OEC 9900 in the past and found it to be outside your budget, you should know the landscape has changed.

We consulted one of our resident C-arm experts, Gary Dodge about what savings buyers can expect to find when they come across OEC 9900s on the refurbished market. He replied with this:

Like their non-motorized counterparts, the OEC 9900 MD and 9800 MD have an awful lot in common. But, also like their non-motorized counterparts, they differ in a few significant ways. To make things simple for those of you considering either of these models (or any other motor-driven C-arm on the market) we'll break down the differences below so you can choose the very best system for your site's needs.