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Thu Oct 15 00:32:27 BST 2009

From: karimbrohi at gmail.com
> Carel
Perhaps you should send through a picture or two of your CT/resus suite to show what you mean by 'co-located'

--> I am back at my own PC now. Not sure whether you have received the picture you asked for, so I thought I'd send you one I have from our ED. I hope it makes it to the rest of the List as well...

In the foreground is the foot of one of our 6 resuscitation beds - the one we most often use for trauma.

Despite the poor photo quality from my cell phone, you can make out the distance to the CT scanner, on which I placed an unfortunate surgical resident who happened to be passing through when I was preparing a talk on trauma care for a conference earlier this year.

What you cannot see on the picture is that we also have two overhead X-ray gantries, one each per 3 bays. Also, the CT operator room is expanded to include a fully up-to-date image viewing suite for our radiologist to sit at, where we can get at him with questions, rather than at some remote dark room. That way the radiologist, EP (team leader) and any surgeons can look at the images together and discuss them...

The scanner is in a spaceous room with oxygen, etc. Distance to scanner from the bay is almost short enough for the leads to reach, but, worry not, our monitors are detachable and accompany the patients into the CT... ;-)

This ED was designed by active Emergency Physicians (I was not there yet when they drew plans, I must sadly admit) and we opened 3.5 years ago.

Happy to reply to further questions.

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