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Children's has become one of the first hospitals in the world to introduce portable head CT imaging in the medical/surgical ICU. For the past several months, patients who are too critically ill to be transported to the CT scanner in Children's radiology suite on the second floor are now scanned right in their beds. "The portability of the scanner allows us to bring the imaging technology to the patient rather than the other way around," says Jeffrey Burns, MD, MPH, chief of Critical Care Medicine. "This allows us to provide enhanced care to our most critically ill patients and eases parents' anxiety."
These images are viewed in real time by clinicians in the ICU and transmitted wirelessly via the Internet to a neuroradiologist at any location with an Internet connection, further enhancing the goal of bringing the full resources of the hospital directly to the patient in the ICU. The scanner will also soon be used to provide brain blood perfusion studies at the bedside in the MSICU, thus allowing for the most sophisticated monitoring of therapies to improve outcome in
brain injury.
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