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CARDIOLOGY SOLUTIONS CONTACT: Amanda Naiman Siemens Medical Solutions
(610) [email protected]
SIEMENS SHOWS HOLISTIC, INTEGRATED APPROACH TO CARDIOLOGY AT ACC 2006
Time is critical for cardiac patients, and clinicians need tools to more rapidly and
accurately move from diagnosis to treatment. Compared to a few years ago, today’s
cardiologists have a wealth of resources at their fingertips. Siemens’ “big picture”
solutions blend imaging, information technology (IT), and professional services to give
cardiologists a unique, customized solution that helps optimize clinical, operational and
financial performance, and enables proven outcomes.
Siemens helps clinicians and administrators realize the best achievable
performance in their cardiovascular programs. Siemens Integrated Performance
Solution (IPS) for Cardiovascular Services is a proven approach to performance
improvement for the cardiovascular practice, focusing on optimizing operations by
considering technology, processes and facility infrastructure in an integrated fashion.
Siemens (booth # 3431) portfolio of integrated cardiology technologies includes:
IT D elivers Robust, Holistic Cardiovascular Electronic Patient Record
IT provides clinicians anytime, anywhere access to valuable information to help
diagnose and treat cardiac diseases, while allowing them to spend more time with their
patients.
Soarian® Cardiovascular Enterprise, an electronic patient record solution,
helps physicians improve the continuum of cardiac care from diagnosis to treatment and
follow-up by integrating images and patient data to provide healthcare providers with
immediate access to complete clinical information. Soarian Critical Care addresses the
clinical, financial, and operational workflow challenges of the critical care team by
proactively integrating medical devices and information. It streamlines processes by
automatically collecting data from the bedside, including patient monitors and
ventilators, to create electronic documentation and near real-time patient information.
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Backgrounder
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Soarian Disease Management provides patients with the guidance and support
to manage and conveniently report on their daily health status, helps providers monitor
chronically ill patients’ adherence to care plans and provides a holistic picture of a
patient’s condition, pushing relevant information to clinicians. Soarian Operating Room
is designed to support the complete peri-operative process, from the time the physician
considers an operation, until the patient is received on the floor. This is achieved by
streamlining workflow processes such as scheduling, preference card management,
preoperative preparation, and the delivery of anesthesia.
Non-Invasive Solutions Setting New Standards in Image Quality
The combination of advanced speed and higher resolution images have expanded the
roles of computed tomography (CT) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and molecular
imaging (MI) in cardiology, enabling earlier disease detection and more effective
treatment.
The world’s first dual source CT, the SOMATOM® Definition, is faster than every
beating heart and capable of imaging full cardiac detail with as little as half the radiation
exposure compared to traditional CT scans. Setting new standards in cardiac imaging,
the system can image patients with high or irregular heart rates without medications that
have been previously needed to slow a patient’s heart. Physicians can better identify and
characterize plaque, an early indicator of heart disease. In addition, syngo® Circulation,
a dedicated software solution designed to fast-track cardiovascular CT based diagnosis,
guides the clinician through cardiac evaluation from automated heart segmentation, to
coronary vessel segmentation and stenosis quantification, to fully automated functional
analysis and reporting. The entire study, from scan to diagnosis, can be completed in as
little as 10 minutes. With a single click, the heart can be isolated from the rib cage,
facilitating rapid assessment of the overall cardiac anatomy and optimized stent planning.
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Available with the Tim® (Total imaging matrix) technology application suite,
syngo BEAT defies the stigma that cardiac MRI is complicated, time consuming, and
only used by experts and research centers. This single tool combines everything
needed to support a diagnosis of cardiac disease, allowing professionals to change
parameters with a click of the mouse – from 2D to 3D, breath-hold to free-breathing,
and morphology to functional or tissue characterization. Doctors can now use syngo
BEAT on more than 80 percent of their cardiac referrals. Siemens’ revolutionary Tim
technology allows the user to select exams, not coils, and provides the highest
acquisition speed without image artifacts or restrictions in coverage, giving radiologists
the opportunity to conduct advanced applications in cardiac imaging.
Symbia® TruePoint™ SPECT· CT combines the functional sensitivity of SPECT
with the anatomical detail of diagnostic multi-slice CT, providing clinicians with greatly
improved imaging clarity and diagnostic confidence. With a single scanning session, this
imaging technology quickly captures comprehensive, accurate information on both the
molecular and anatomical levels, enabling clinicians to detect changes in molecular
activity even before structural changes become visible. Biograph™ 64 provides
unprecedented image quality – especially for cardiovascular applications – with its
ability to perform high resolution CT angiography and positron emission tomography
(PET) myocardial perfusion, viability, and function in one accurately registered exam. As
the world's fastest PET/CT scanner, Biograph 64 provides extremely short breath-hold
times for the patient and motion-free images of the beating heart for the physician. The
Biograph 64 will enable a true one-stop cardiac assessment as a practical clinical
routine. c.cam™, a unique, reclining dedicated cardiac gamma camera system,
enhances imaging accuracy and efficiency while improving patient comfort. The
award-winning system’s myocardial viability and perfusion capabilities offer cardiologists
increased diagnostic confidence, and the system’s fully integrated software allows
analysis of ejection fraction and wall motion.
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Interventional Diagnostic Solutions Provide Unparallel Precision
Siemens diagnostic and treatment solutions for the catheterization lab are helping
cardiologists treat heart disease with unparalleled precision.
Enabling cardiac and cardiovascular applications, the AXIOM Artis with the
30X40 cm flat detector is a fully digital, ceiling-mounted imaging system designed to
support diagnosis and treatment in the cath lab. The system provides the speed,
flexibility, and integration needed for cardiology procedures, with a unique design for
accessibility to the patient. When combined with AXIOM Sensis hemodynamic and
electrophysiological recording system, it provides an integrated cath lab solution
necessary to help optimize workflow.
AXIOM Sensis provides accurate calculations of hemodynamic and
electrophysiologic data obtained during cardiac procedures. The Sensis reporting tool
presents information in a very clear and concise format that can be customized. With
Interventional Cardiac 3D (IC3D), cardiologists can create 3D images of the coronary
vessels in the heart, leading to increased support in diagnosis, faster examination times,
the use of less contrast medium, and lower radiation dosages.
Also being showcased is the ACUSON AcuNav™ 8F ultrasound
catheter. Sized at 8 French, it is 33 percent smaller in the cross sectional area yet still
provides the same high resolution and depth of imaging as the existing AcuNav 10F
catheter. The smaller size enables improved access during closure of atrial septal defects
(ASD) on smaller patients, and left heart applications for both interventional cardiology
and electrophysiology, bringing intracardiac echocardiography to a wider range of
patients. Siemens is also pioneering new ultrasound developments, including Axius
Velocity Vector Imaging™ technology, enabling more comprehensive cardiac
contraction and motion data.
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