The award-winning Eleva Tube Head features a 12” touchscreen monitor and live camera so you can confirm patient positioning, adjust parameters and view images without leaving your patient’s side in the examination room. By customizing and automating the imaging process, you can optimize exams for virtually every type of patient, from newborn babies up to obese adults, and enhance your departmental through put.
Utilizing the Eleva Tube Head can speed workflow by 28 seconds per examination.[1]
81% of the users think that the live camera at the Eleva Tube Head supports correct collimation. This is considered vital for a faster workflow and compliance with dose regulations (e.g. ALARA principle).[1]
94% of users think that the live camera images on Eleva Tube Head help to avoid retakes.[1]
81% of the users consider operating the Eleva Tube Head as helpful for faster learning, faster operation, and fewer mistakes.[2]
The intuitive Eleva Tube Head 12” touchscreen interface brings the functionality of the Eleva work spot into the exam room. Before the exam begins, it presents a welcome screen so that you can confirm patient identity and double-check all relevant parameters. During the exam, you can select the next view and preview it before capturing the image, as well as review images after capture to ensure you’re getting the images needed for diagnosis.
More than 67% of retakes in radiography result from incorrect patient positioning.[3] Eleva Tube Head’s live camera assists with patient positioning and allows you to detect patient movement by providing a clear, bird’s-eye view of the collimation area. In addition to saving time, preventing retakes through more precise collimation decreases unnecessary X-ray dose.
By eliminating the need to return to the control room to change exam parameters, Eleva Tube Head allows you to remain at the patient’s side to provide instruction and reassurance. Seventy-five percent of users agree that the Eleva Tube Head helps them spend more time with patients.[1]
The Eleva Tube Head touchscreen monitor presents a welcome screen at the beginning of every exam so that you can confirm patient identity and avoid potential patient mix-ups in the exam room.
The system allows you to comfortably see more patients per day and shorten patient wait times by decreasing the time to diagnosis with innovative tools that help drive workflow efficiency. DigitalDiagnost C90’s live tube head camera, versatile room configurations, and exam automation technologies all help assure outstanding patient throughput.
This remote controlled fluoroscopy system in combination with high-end digital radiography is designed for consistent, superb image quality and high room utilization, in a cost effective manner.
The Eleva Tube Head of the DigitalDiagnost C90 was awarded the iF Award 2019[5] in two categories: iF Product Design and iF Service Design / UX. The state-of-the-art design and fully digital operation of the new radiography system with the Eleva Tube Head thus set the latest standards.
[1] Validated by clinicians in a Philips development environment.
[2] Validation with participants in test environment.
[3] Little, K.J., et al. (2016) Unified Database for Rejected Image Analysis Across Multiple Vendors in Radiography. Journal of the American College of Radiology. 14(2), 208-216.
[4] Compared to the previous release of DigitalDiagnost and based on 100 patients per day. Actual results in other cases may vary.
[5] Further information at: ifworlddesignguide.com
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