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SOMATOM On.site

Bringing critical care imaging to your patient

Our mobile head CT scanner SOMATOM On.site provides access to the known SOMATOM image quality, right at your patient’s bedside. This will change the way you can serve ICU patients suffering from acute and critical head conditions enabling you to transform care delivery at your hospital.

  • Reduce patient transports
  • Optimize staff deployment
  • Achieve consistent and reliable image quality at the point of care
  • Características e Benefícios
  • Clinical Use
  • Especificações Técnicas
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Características e Benefícios

Staff move an ICU patient bed along a hospital hallway

Why bring the patient to the scanner ...

Providing CT scans of the head for critically ill patients, e.g. from Intensive Care Units (ICU) is crucial but often challenging.

  • Patient transports from the ICU to the radiology department are associated with complex logistical hurdles that can require up to five staff members.1
  • Inhouse patient transports bear an increased risk of complications for patients: >71% of ICU patients experience adverse events during transport specifically to the CT suite.2
  • Scanning of ICU patients at the radiology department impacts CT availability for other patients by blocking off more than double the time of conventional exams.3

... when you could bring the scanner to the patient

Experience mobile head CT scanning with SOMATOM image quality right at the patient’s bedside:

  • Reducing transport to the radiology department can prevent related complications and allow your staff to concentrate on what matters most: providing care for the patients in the ICU department.
  • Acquiring images directly at the patient's bedside may speed up diagnostics and following decisions and steps.
  • Offering mobile CT imaging directly in the ICU allows the radiology department to create additional scanning capacity in the Radiology department for acute head scans in case of non-availability of the stationary CT scanner. Scanning patients directly in the ICU ward will empower your streamlined imaging workflows.

Transform care delivery with SOMATOM On.site

Maximize quality of care

  • SOMATOM On.site permits CT imaging of the head directly on the ICU ward, so patients do not encounter any transport-associated risks.
  • Performing high-quality scans at the patient's bedside helps staff to react more promptly supporting quicker diagnosictics and treatment decision-making.

Optimize staff deployment and care delivery

  • ICU physicians and nurses can spend more time within the ICU department.
  • This may result in reduced stress for staff, uninterrupted attention for all ICU patients, and improved bed capacity utilization in the ward.



Achieve high end image quality at the point of care

  • Even cross-trained staff can achieve reproducible head scans right at the patient’s bedside.
  • Mobile CT imaging reduces the number of ICU patient scans in the radiology department, potentially resulting in more streamlined utilization of stationary systems and staff, along with more predictable appointment schedules.

SOMATOM On.site
  1. Telescopic scanner design
    the telescopic gantry glides on the stationary system trolley providing support for all workflow steps
  2. Easy scan set-up and fast workflow with myExam Companion powered by GO technologies (Scan&GO and Recon&GO), intuitive Touch UI & control panel
  3. Self-shielding system design
    with lead-shielded gantry and radiation shields covering the front and back of the gantry bore
  4. Powerful image acquisition
    32 row Stellar detector and dedicated X-ray tube
  5. Easy patient positioning
    with integrated shoulder board and head holder: precise iso-centric positioning, 35 cm bore opening
  6. Premium core technologies
    iMAR and SAFIRE
  7. All-in-one system design
    with integrated computers
  8. Smart driving concept
    The motorized system trolley allows easy driving and maneuvering in small spaces. The front camera offers visualization when driving and positioning the system. Slow & fast drive mode for agile hallway driving

Clinical Use

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Courtesy of Siemens Healthineers

SOMATOM On.site brings SOMATOM image quality to the patient's bedside. It is combining proven technologies from existing SOMATOM scanners with newly designed components.

Especificações Técnicas

Scanner type

Mobile head CT scanner

Detectors

Stellar detector

Iterative Reconstruction

SAFIRE

Metal artifact reduction

iMAR

kV steps

80, 120 kV

Spatial resolution

0.75 mm

Gantry opening

35 cm

Slice acquisition

32

1Masaryk, TJ., Kolonick R, Painter T, Weinreb DB. The economic and clinical benefits of portable head/neck CT imaging in the intensive care unit. Radiol Manage [Internet]. 2008 Mar-Apr [cited 2019 Aug 15]:30(2):50-54. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18431942

2PwC Turkey [Internet]. Istanbul, Turkey: PricewaterhouseCoopers. Anticipating unique disruptions: PwC's 21st CEO Survey: key findings from the healthcare industry; 2018 [cited 2019 Aug 6]. Available from: https://www.pwc.com.tr/en/yayinlar/arastirmalar/ceo-survey/21-ceo-arastirmasi/saglik-sektoru-sonuclari.html

3Murphy M. Research brief: eliminating wasteful work in hospitals improves margin, quality and culture [Internet]. Washington, DC: Murphy Leadership Institute; 2003 Aug [cited 2019 Aug 15]. 11 p. Available from: https://www.cs.odu.edu/~cpi/old/cpi-s2004/statag/murphy-wastefulwork.pdf

This product does not yet fulfill all the essential requirements according to the European Medical Device Directive (93/42/EEC) and its national implementations neither all applicable General Safety and Performance Requirements according to the European Medical Device Regulation 2017/745. It is not yet commercially available in the European Union.