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SOMATOM On.siteBringing critical care imaging to your patient

Our mobile head CT scanner SOMATOM On.site provides access to the known SOMATOM image quality, right at your patient’s bedside. This will change the way you can serve ICU patients suffering from acute and critical head conditions enabling you to transform care delivery at your hospital.

  • Reduce patient transports
  • Optimize staff deployment
  • Achieve consistent and reliable image quality at the point of care

Features & Benefits

Staff move an ICU patient bed along a hospital hallway

Why bring the patient to the scanner ...

Providing CT scans of the head for critically ill patients, e.g. from Intensive Care Units (ICU) is crucial but often challenging.

  • Patient transports from the ICU to the radiology department are associated with complex logistical hurdles that can require up to five staff members.1
  • Inhouse patient transports bear an increased risk of complications for patients: >71% of ICU patients experience adverse events during transport specifically to the CT suite.2
  • Scanning of ICU patients at the radiology department impacts CT availability for other patients by blocking off more than double the time of conventional exams.3

... when you could bring the scanner to the patient

Experience mobile head CT scanning with SOMATOM image quality right at the patient’s bedside:

  • Reducing transport to the radiology department can prevent related complications and allow your staff to concentrate on what matters most: providing care for the patients in the ICU department.
  • Acquiring images directly at the patient's bedside may speed up diagnostics and following decisions and steps.
  • Offering mobile CT imaging directly in the ICU allows the radiology department to create additional scanning capacity in the Radiology department for acute head scans in case of non-availability of the stationary CT scanner. Scanning patients directly in the ICU ward will empower your streamlined imaging workflows.

Transform care delivery with SOMATOM On.site

Reduce patient transports

  • SOMATOM On.site permits CT imaging of the head directly on the ICU ward, which reduces complications associated with patient transportation from intensive care wards to the radiology department.
  • Performing CT scans at the patient's bedside helps staff to reach fast treatment decisions.

Optimize staff deployment

  • ICU staff can focus more on their core tasks and care for their patients when they do not need to accompany the transports. 
  • Reduction of physical burden and fatigue on staff as the transfer of the patient to a dedicated scan table is not required anymore.



Achieve consistent and reliable image quality at the point of care

  • Touch UI in combination with myExam Companion makes scanner operation intuitive and easy - and therefore also possible for cross-trained staff.
  • Mobile CT imaging reduces the number of ICU patient scans in the radiology department, potentially resulting in more streamlined utilization of stationary systems and staff, along with less efforts in CT scan room preparation (e.g., cleaning).
SOMATOM On.site

    Clinical Use

    Brain window
    Courtesy of Siemens Healthineers

    SOMATOM On.site brings SOMATOM image quality to the patient's bedside. It is combining proven technologies from existing SOMATOM scanners with newly designed components.

    Technical Specifications

    Scanner type

    Mobile head CT scanner

    Detectors

    2.4 cm Stellar detector

    Iterative Reconstruction

    SAFIRE

    Metal artifact reduction

    iMAR

    kV steps

    80, 120 kV

    Spatial resolution

    0.75 mm

    Gantry opening

    35 cm

    Slice acquisition

    32

    1
    Masaryk, TJ., Kolonick R, Painter T, Weinreb DB. The economic and clinical benefits of portable head/neck CT imaging in the intensive care unit. Radiol Manage [Internet]. 2008 Mar-Apr [cited 2019 Aug 15]:30(2):50-54. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18431942
    2
    PwC Turkey [Internet]. Istanbul, Turkey: PricewaterhouseCoopers. Anticipating unique disruptions: PwC's 21st CEO Survey: key findings from the healthcare industry; 2018 [cited 2019 Aug 6]. Available from: https://www.pwc.com.tr/en/yayinlar/arastirmalar/ceo-survey/21-ceo-arastirmasi/saglik-sektoru-sonuclari.html
    3
    Murphy M. Research brief: eliminating wasteful work in hospitals improves margin, quality and culture [Internet]. Washington, DC: Murphy Leadership Institute; 2003 Aug [cited 2019 Aug 15]. 11 p. Available from: https://www.cs.odu.edu/~cpi/old/cpi-s2004/statag/murphy-wastefulwork.pdf