Magnetic resonance against claustrophobia.
clÃnica Corachan already boasts a team of magnetic resonance of high field dedicated to tips, the first of these features is installed in Catalonia.
-the new team avoids the feeling of claustrophobia that produce conventional equipment and is specially designed for lower and upper extremities
– incorporates latest technology that allows access to very small fields with great anatomical detail
Barcelona, February 2012.- magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a safe and painless test that uses a magnetic field and radio waves to obtain detailed images of organs and structures of the body. Magnetic resonance equipment consists of a magnet ring that usually have a tube in the middle. Patients lie down on a massage table that slides inside the tube.
But it is not so simple. The proof requires absolute immobility for at least 20 minutes, and the narrowness and length of the tube generated a remarkable sense of distress to many people, as well as making impracticable the test to 4% of the population that suffers from claustrophobia (who suffers from this problem prevents upload in lift, travel by metro, be locked in a small room or even to make a magnetic resonance).
The Corachan clinic in Barcelona are performed each year more than 17,000 MRIs. So far, persons who should undergo this test due to problems with lower and upper limbs had to be in the tube ” resonance equipment. From now on, however, this will not necessary, what will certainly be a great improvement in the well-being of patients during the test and a real opportunity for the claustrophobic.
And it is that the clinic has just set up a new team of resonance magnetic (RM) Optima MR430s open of high field 1.5 Teslas of GE Healthcare, the first of these characteristics in Catalonia. It is a team pioneer that brings together cutting-edge technology in image quality and maximum comfort for the patient. It can sit comfortably in a chair outside the machine, and only introduce the limb to be analyzed within the receiving antenna.
as explains Dr. Jaume Pomés, expert in diagnostic imaging of the skeletal muscle of the central system, are many advantages, both for the patient by the enormous comfort that brings, and the clinic, by the high quality of image that provides and the possibility to test a segment of patients that so far is les nizhnekamskyto seek alternative diagnostic solutions such as the TC. In addition, the new team is also indicated for people with limited mobility, children and patients with obesity morbid. ”
access to minimum injuries
La RM Optima MR430s can perform a scan every 20 minutes, and is a great innovation in image in the system skeletal muscle of limbs for both patients and physicians, that combines the efficiency and high quality of the best teams in magnetic resonance.
It is specially designed to detect pathologies that affect joints, tendons, ligaments or bones of the knee, ankle, foot, elbow, wrist and hand. As explained by Dr. Jaume Pomés, this team incorporates a software with special sequences that allows access to very small fields with great anatomical detail and carry out exploration with advanced techniques such as the T2 mapping to assess accurately the State of cartilage ”.
90 years in the service of the patient
with the launch of this new RM, ClÃnica Corachan continues its process of improvement and commitment in the service of the patient, to be a leader in quality, efficiency, humanity and security in advanced medical care. The clinic annually more than 130,000 explorations of diagnostic imaging in its facilities.
Clinical Corachan, that celebrated its 90th anniversary during the year 2011 live pruinosa in a process of continuous modernisation and extension. So, last November opened 3 intelligent integrated operating ”, of the most modern in our country.
Since its inception, Corachan clinic has been closely linked to the progress and development of the Catalan health, throughout its history with illustrious representatives of the medical profession and having acquired a strong roots and a positioning of proximity, quality and prestige.
Its founder, Dr. Manuel Corachan, was a pioneer in his time and a medical pioneer who, in addition to his profession as a surgeon, developed other illustrious positions as the of Minister of health of the Generalitat de Catalunya in 1936, Director of the service of the Hospital de la Santa Creu surgery or the Director of the first medical dictionary in Catalan languageprefaced by Pompeu Fabra and August Pi Sunyer.
The clinic is currently a reference in speeches of high complexity such as cardiac surgery with and without extracorporeal, thoracic surgery, endovascular, general and Gynecologic laparoscopy and traumatologic surgery surgery and pioneered interventions not minimally aggressive invasive.
