Mobile x-ray supports occupational healthcare
Carestream senior account manager Wayne Sharpe and Industrial Diagnostics Company imaging services manager Nickie Percival with the DRX transportable system.
Industrial Diagnostics Company (IDC), an occupational health firm based in Leicestershire, provides robust health surveillance programmes for clients throughout the UK including mobile screening services for employees exposed to respirable crystalline silica. Its dust is known to cause silicosis in workers exposed to it, a potentially serious medical condition that can relate to both current exposure and exposure many years previously.
To enable on-site delivery of its mobile chest x-ray service, IDC has purchased a Carestream DRX-1 transportable system/field portable with wireless digital detector and portable x-ray tube, as well as Carestream Vue PACS with native reporting.
“Many of the sites we visit are inaccessible to standard vehicle-mounted x-ray units, so the DRX transportable is ideal,” said IDC imaging services manager Nickie Percival.
See the full report on page 24 of the April 2017 issue of RAD Magazine.
