Fluoroscopy replacement tackles wide range of procedures

Toshiba Medical Systems applications specialist x-ray Carl Smith, highly specialist speech and language therapist Sarah Wheat, advanced practitioner radiographer David Haggerty, Toshiba account executive CT/x-ray/MRI and connectivity Colin Pellow, speech and language therapist Meena Nazemi, advanced practitioner radiographer Clarissa Clement and radiology services manager Paul Hudson.

Colchester General Hospital will be able to undertake various fluoroscopy procedures including cystograms, barium swallows and arthograms with its recently purchased a Toshiba Ultimax-i x-ray fluoroscopy solution with overhead tube crane and vertical chest stand.

Advanced practitioner radiographer David Haggerty said: “We are a busy district general radiology department where space is at a premium.  When replacing the existing equipment it was vital to have something that offered the ability to deal with a wide spectrum of procedures, with specific requirements for paediatric cases, upper GI work, video fluoroscopy, and assisting our interventional radiology suite.

“The room is also required to act as an overflow source to deal with our high A&E and inpatient workload.  The Toshiba Ultimax-i was the only system able to meet these criteria.”

See the full report on page 12 of the August 2015 issue of RAD Magazine.