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I'm Stuart Oakley with the Ontario Association of Radiologists.
I came to Humber River Hospital to check out the new IR Suite and I'm really glad that I did.
This state-of-the-art equipment
is phenomenal and if this is an indication of what will be available at the new hospital
then I think this is going to be great news
for patient care in Ontario certainly
and for local residents here as well. We're delighted to have this
angio suite and it represents a significant improvement
from many, many perspectives. One of the most important issues
is that the the radiation dose it delivers is a miniscule
of the radiation dose that we had with the older unit.
The unit also has a number of wonderful features
and it incorporates other modalities such as ultrasound and CT.
The beauty of this again is patient-centered.
If we're we're doing a procedure on a patient
- well it's it's a fluoroscopic procedure - we'll go ahead and do it but then
let's say you
want to do a ct-guided procedure, biopsy or abcess drainage,what have you
we can do the same thing with this unit. From the patient's perspective,
you know, it's one-stop-shopping as it were.
So the visualization that this unit allows us to have is
superb. For example, if we have a large patients.
sometimes visualization is compromised because
just because of the size the patient
you need much more radiation to see what you want to see.
This this unit can get around that.
Because if we we use basically
wires for a lot of our procedures - the whole concept the interventional
radiology
was born in angiography and angiography basically was
puncturing a vessel, putting in a wire and then everything is done over that wire.
We can we can scan the patient here and if need be we can intervene here -
that's a huge step forward.