Pasadena, California’s Huntington Hospital has installed nine Carestream DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray Systems, retrofitted two existing portable systems with DRX Plus 3543C detectors and purchased a small-format DRX 2530C detector for use with neonatal patients.
These high-quality imaging systems help enhance care for patients in its emergency department, operating suites, intensive care unit and neonatal intensive care unit. Staff members at the 625-bed hospital used other portable DR imaging systems prior to standardizing on the DRX-Revolution platform.
“The DRX-Revolution systems deliver high-resolution images that can help our physicians quickly and accurately assess and treat acute care patients, as well as inpatients who require bedside exams,” said Ranilo Blasco, the hospital’s Manager of Radiology.
Two DRX-Revolutions capture more than 2,300 exams a month in the hospital’s busy emergency department. Dedicated DRX-Revolutions serve the imaging needs of the hospital’s six operating suites, intensive care unit and neonatal intensive care unit, while the remaining units perform inpatient exams throughout the hospital. The hospital performs more than 150,000 imaging exams a year.
“Technologists in the operating suites are able to position the unit so surgeons can view images either on the tube monitor or the console without moving away from the patient,” Blasco said.
Carestream’s software provides a companion image that delivers optimized visualization of tubes and lines. “Physicians use these images to help position tubes and lines for seriously ill or injured patients and to detect pneumothorax. Because the companion image is created from the initial image, we do not need to capture multiple X-ray exams of these patients,” Blasco said.
Carestream’s new DRX Plus detectors offer features designed to help users achieve higher productivity, improved image quality and lower dose. In addition, these detectors can be submerged in one meter of water for 30 minutes without failure, which achieves IPX Level 7 rating for liquid resistance and the IEC standard 60529.
