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TechUpdate
Siemens Healthcare to Provide High-end Healthcare Solutions to Medanta
In addition to installing hi-end imaging products, Siemens
will also launch a range of products
SOMATOM Definition Flash |
Siemens Healthcare has entered into one of the largest technology
partnerships in India to provide innovative imaging and IT solutions to Medanta-The
Medicity, an upcoming 1,250 bed multi-super specialty healthcare institute in
Gurgaon. Founded by eminent cardiac surgeon, Dr Naresh Trehan, Medanta is one
of India's largest multi-super specialty institutes. At Medanta, in addition
to installing hi-end imaging products recently introduced in India, Siemens
will also launch a range of products for the first time in India. This includes
SOMATOM Definition Flash CT scanner, Artis Zeego cathlab, ACUSON SC2000 ultrasound
system and Biograph mCT, a PET-CT scanner.
Said D Ragavan, Sector CEO for Healthcare, South Asia Cluster,
Siemens Ltd, "Dr Trehan's ambition is to build Medanta-The Medicity as
one of the topmost facilities in this part of the globe. To realise this vision,
he needs the world's best technologies and we are installing our latest and
top of the line technologies in Medanta, which will help the clinicians and
the patients."
Said Dr Naresh Trehan, Chairman & Managing Director, Medanta-The Medicity,
"At Medanta, technology and innovation will be the key drivers for providing
high-end services and at the same time keeping patient cost low, so I welcome
our partnership with Siemens."
With the SOMATOM Definition Flash, Medanta-The Medicity is introducing a CT
scanner in India that will set new standards regarding speed and dose reduction.
Its fastest scanning speed in CT enables for example, complete scans of the
entire chest region in just 0.6 seconds. Thus, patients are no longer required
to hold their breath during the exam the way they had in the past. At the same
time, the SOMATOM Definition Flash operates at an extremely reduced radiation
dose. For example, a spiral heart scan can be performed with less than one millisievert
(mSv), whereas the average effective dose required for this purpose usually
ranges from 8 mSv to 40 mSv.
The new Artis zeego angiography system introduces unprecedented flexibility
in catheter labs and operating rooms. The industrial robot technology integrated
in Artis zeego allows the physician to move the C-arm to almost any position
around the patient. ACUSON SC2000 is an ultrasound system, which has introduced
a technology called 'Echo in a Heart Beat' for the first time in India, which
delivers full-volume images of the heart with every heartbeat. Siemens will
also install Biograph mCT, the world's first molecular CT that allows high definition
PET CT imaging and patient comfort, while scanning in shortest possible time.
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