DR room installation improves practice at Leeds Children’s Hospital

Last updated Oct 4, 2019

Leeds Children’s Hospital, part of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, has invested in the recently-launched DigitalDiagnost C90 premium DR room, supplied by Philips UKI.

Reporting radiographer practitioner Fiona Simpson said: “The new room has made significant improvements to our patient experience.

“We had been working with a DR mobile in just one room; the new system has massively improved patient throughput and has changed what we are able to do.”

The DigitalDiagnost C90 integrates a touch screen and live camera into the Eleva tube head for extended control in the examination room. The live camera helps with patient positioning by providing a clear view of the collimation area, which can help alleviate potential imprecise collimation, such as with paediatric patients. Better positioning can also help eliminate time-consuming retakes.

Simpson added: “Along with the whole of radiology, we have seen an increase in the number of patients and an increase in the complexity and types of abnormalities. The new equipment provides several supporting advantages, for example, having the camera on the tube. Being able to see the patient is a big improvement and the image coming up on the tube head after the exposure is really useful.”

The system offers a ‘move to position’ function that allows it to travel automatically to a selected examination position, and with the optional fully automated ceiling suspension both detector and tube move in unison at the touch of a button. This allows the user to reduce patient repositioning with predefined position settings.

Picture: Philips UKI marketing manager Emma Kenny and field service engineer Sam Webster, senior paediatric radiographer Katie-Mae Sheerin, radiology team manager Emily Keyte, reporting radiographer practitioner Fiona Simpson, trust business manager Ronnie Hood, Philips UKI account manager Paul Mason and modality specialist Patrick Lightfoot.

Published on page 15 of the August 2019 issue of RAD Magazine.