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    Making CT Child Friendly in London and Stockholm

    5min
    Linda Brookes
    Published on June 30, 2018
    Children’s hospital radiology department is making pediatric imaging easy with this child friendly radiology room.

    The need for a calm environment

    At Astrid Lindgren Children’s hospital in Stockholm, an audio-visual display helps to make kids feel comfortable before a scan.

    Distraction works

    Children’s hospital radiology department is making pediatric imaging easy with this child friendly radiology room.

    Having a welcoming environment in the scanning area created a ‘win-win’ situation for patients and the medical team at GOSH.

    Catherine Owens, MD, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London

    By minimizing patient trauma and getting diagnostic images in small children who are often not very cooperative, we are able to maximize image quality and output.

    Catherine Owens, MD, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London

    Projections, cartoons, and scanning

    Lena Gordon Murkes, MD, Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital, Stockholm

    The audio-visual display gives our little patients something beside the health issues to talk about. This provided a much more calm, positive situation.

    Lena Gordon Murkes, MD, Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital, Stockholm
    By Linda Brookes
    Linda Brookes is a freelance medical writer and editor based in New York and London with a record of working for a wide range of international clients and publications in the healthcare and pharmaceutical fields.
    1. The statements by Siemens Healthineers customers described herein are based on results that were achieved in the customer’s unique setting. Since there is no “typical” hospital and many variables exist (e.g., hospital size, case mix, level of IT adoption) there can be no guarantee that other customers will achieve the same results.