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[Establishment of an emergency CT service by means of teleradiology]
A Stöger1, S M Giacomuzzi, W Strohmayr
1Universitätsklinik für Radiodiagnostik, Klinische Abteilung I, Innsbruck.
Unlabelled:
The teleradiological connection between the University Hospital in Innsbruck, Tyrol, and the Regional Hospital in Zwettl, Lower Austria, is presented as an example of a routine online connection of two helical CT systems.
Purpose:
To establish a practicable and cost-efficient emergency CT service in a remote hospital during night time and on weekends.
Material And Methods:
Online connection of a GE HiSpeed Advantage-Spiral-CT and a GE Prospeed-Spiral-CT via two Sun SPARC 10 work stations and ISDN.
Results:
The transmission of 121 CT data sets from 116 patients revealed a sufficiently fast average transmission time of 15 (6-53) minutes and average transmission costs of DM 9.00 per examination. The system was technically reliable, cost-efficient and practicable in clinical routine application.
Conclusions:
Teleradiology enables remote hospitals to provide an emergency CT service even if there is no radiological specialist available outside office hours. Thus time-consuming and cost-intensive patient transfers and delay of therapy can be reduced.