Ultrasound is a user-intensive modality, which means that simplifying the way a clinician interacts with the system will greatly improve the overall user experience. This was the focus behind Siemens Healthineers’ newly designed family of ultrasound systems, the Acuson S Family, HELX Evolution with Touch Control. Targeting the premium market segment, each of the three systems in the Acuson S Family features innovative technologies that improve system operation and reduce user errors during examinations. Healthcare providers including hospitals, clinics and private practices can upgrade or update their systems at any time providing investment protection for their existing systems. Following intensive user research conducted by Siemens Corporate Research across four key regions and over 170 usability sessions, HELX Evolution with Touch Control was designed for easy usability. A completely reworked user interface simplifies operation with 44percent fewer software keys, 33percent fewer tactile keys and 22percent fewer homebase controls. The control panel features an intuitive touch display that helps eliminate unnecessary workflow steps. The systems feature new imaging optimization technologies to enhance image quality with challenging patients and for abdominal, breast, vascular and musculoskeletal exams. Shear wave elastography technologies are improved to provide more information in a single image for the quantitative or qualitative characterization of tissue. Multi-modality imaging, where real-time ultrasound is superimposed onto 3D CT or MRI volumes, is complemented with newly enhanced workflow tools to make it more relevant and more practical to use in the clinical routine. The Acuson S Family offers solutions to meet a large variety of user needs. The Acuson S3000 ultrasound system is designed for multi-modality imaging in general imaging and interventional radiology. The Acuson S2000 is an all-purpose ultrasound system for general imaging and includes special functions for women’s health. For cardiology and vascular imaging needs, the Acuson S1000 ultrasound system delivers great value.
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Creamatocrit Plus has been launched recently as the first maternal milk fat and calories analyser. This novel centrifuge with built-in tube reader is dedicated to providing a fast and accurate creamatocrit measure of maternal milk and estimate of calories. Small and lightweight with whisper quiet 3-minute operation, Creamatocrit Plus is particularly useful in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) to ensure that premature infants are receiving the calories that they need to thrive. Creamatocrit Plus guides the separation of foremilk and the high lipid, high caloric hindmilk to accelerate weight gain in extremely low birth weight infants. To achieve this it uses a very simple, inexpensive and accurate technique for estimating the lipid concentration and calorific density in mothers’milk.
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TrueFusion, an application on the new Release 5.0 of the ACUSON SC2000 cardiovascular ultrasound system, integrates ultrasound and angiography images. These integrated images can be used to guide cardiac teams when administering treatment for structural heart disease. Treatment options for structural heart disease are evolving rapidly. Increasingly, these minimally invasive procedures involve multimodality imaging and multidisciplinary clinical teams. To reliably diagnose structural heart disease and perform these complex interventions, clinical teams need detailed, real-time imaging information – specifically, real-time soft tissue and blood flow information from echocardiography as well as 2D imaging information from fluoroscopy – to be visible in one view for common orientation.  Addressing the need for fused images, the new TrueFusion application sends anatomical and functional markers as well as valve models from the ACUSON SC2000’s True Volume transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) transducer to an Artis with PURE angiography system, overlaying ultrasound information with live fluoroscopy images to navigate structural heart procedures. By directly and seamlessly integrating co-registration of Artis fluoro and ACUSON SC2000 echo into the workflow via machine learning-based probe detection and automated registration updates, TrueFusion enables clinical teams to identify soft tissue-based structures  that are provided directly from the integrated ultrasound system.  Not only can echocardiographers and interventionists better communicate and achieve more intuitive anatomical orientation during challenging procedures, but clinical teams potentially can reduce contrast usage and procedure time as well as patient and clinician X-ray exposure.  For the high innovation pace of novel procedures and devices in structural heart disease, data and image integration is now available for clinical decision support and real-time therapy guidance.
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Requiring only a minimum of space, the HAMILTON-C1 mechanical ventilator combines maximum mobility with invasive and noninvasive modes, as well as high flow oxygen therapy. The integrated high-performance turbine enables the ventilator to be completely independent of compressed air. This makes it an ideal companion for all patient groups in the intensive care unit, emergency ward, recovery room or intermediate care, long-term acute care facilities, and during intrahospital transport. The HAMILTON-C1 offers the option of an integrated high flow oxygen therapy mode. With this enhancement, it provides a variety of ventilation and therapy options in one device, including invasive and noninvasive ventilation, and high flow oxygen therapy. In just a few steps, it is possible to change the interface and use the same device and breathing circuit to accommodate the patient’s needs. In pressure-controlled modes (PCV+, SPONT, PSIMV+), an optional feature enables the use of conventional speaking valves with the ventilator. Monitoring, triggering, and alarm management have been adjusted to allow their use.
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The Resona 7 ultrasound system is powered by the innovative ZONE Sonography Technology, which transforms ultrasound metrics from the conventional signal processing technique of beamforming to channel data based processing. The ZST+ platform incorporates multiple imaging advances: Advanced Acoustic Acquisition, Dynamic Pixel Focusing, Sound Speed Compensation, Advanced Image Processing, and Total Recall Imaging. These features help elevate Resona 7
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