Transcript of SD Episode 7 Preview Clip Siemens1

hospitals, the floral machine manufacturers, why didn't any of them think of these issues? How did they all let it get to this point? I'm often asked who's to blame. Well, it's a funny answer. It's both and it's neither. Neither because we have been focused on patient care. We were so excited over the years of just being able to make patients better that we weren't thinking of safety. And the answer is both because the minute this became an issue, the minute a safety issue was raised, it has been incumbent on hospitals and on manufacturers to address it immediately. I think in the past there was a lack of focus around radiation protection. As an industry, we have a collective responsibility to ensure we're continuously innovating and investing in research and development to challenge the laws of physics to ensure that we can deliver optimal image quality at the lowest dose. a real life look and you're going to see what he's seeing uh in real time. There it is in real time. If you look at the evolution of our angography systems in the industry, the doses have been considerably lowered um upwards to 60 to 80% from uh just 20 years ago. Uh a lot of that is is due to uh the constant focus on how to redesign X-ray tubes where they don't necessarily need as much power to produce the imaging necessary. In the old days, uh you know, you would have to actually, you know, for example, slide resistors uh in order to adjust your MA. So it was a very manual process. But now that we have what we call automatic exposure control, uh again, the system is automatically modifying these parameters real time. Watch what his movements do on the screen. That's awesome. It's almost like I like to say there's a physicist working in the X-ray tube for you. I see this as a way of taking our foot off the accelerator. So one way we can really reduce radiation is by using other modality imaging such as CT or MR and we can actually bring that modality imaging into the lab to utilize uh whether if it's a a reference point or road mapping or using that data to then overlay on our images. So we don't have to use X-ray to use the visualization. We can use pre-procedural imaging uh to replace what would otherwise had to have used radiation to visualize. So you get your exact angulation in which you need to operate. Send those angles to the C arm. CRM will automatically navigate into that position. So when you hit on fluo, you're getting the exact projection you need, understanding the forcehortening of the of the vessel as well as the anatomy. I think this is a very exciting time because everyone is feeling the accountability to support one another in ensuring scattered radiation is reduced, but also that we're coming up with solutions together to support one another in driving this movement. I mean, I think just having the conversation was the first step.