Workflow Solutions //Smart Protocols
Because Every Body Is Different
Bringing Injection Protocol Personalisation to Clinical Routine
Every day, a diverse patient population presents unique imaging challenges. It is well accepted that contrast enhancement decreases with increasing patient size and that individualised protocols can lead to more consistent images.1,2,3,4
However, numerous factors related to the patient and to the procedure lead to complex manual calculations or look-up tables, which can take up valuable time and potentially lead to mistakes. All of this can be overwhelming to a radiology department already stretched thin.
Gives You Control
- Implement your site’s preferred dosing options and limits, based on your own injection protocols, for as many indications as you need.
- Review what has been adjusted and what limits are in effect as the protocol is automatically recalculated.
Enables Routine personalisation
- Automatically calculate flow rates and volumes based on patient size (weight or lean body weight) and contrast media concentration.
- Apply tube voltage adjustment to account for scanner settings.
Provides Added Confidence
- Display site-specific eGFR guidance before the protocol is even selected.
- Verify that calculated flow rates and pressure limit settings comply with your policies for IV access.
Patient-centric Workflow for Individualised Care
1. eGFR check prior to CT contrast procedure
2. Adjusts protocol for patient weight, CT tube voltage and selected contrast concentration to maintain target IDR/IDL and provides protocol preview
3. Catheter check to ensure compliance with site-configured flow rates and pressures
Injector and Contrast Media Considerations for Personalised Protocols
With a modern, streamlined user interface, modality worklist integration and built-in barcode reader, Centargo easily incorporates //Smart Protocols into the workflow. Combined with Ultravist®’s 2D barcode for automatic data entry, getting the information required to personalise protocols could not be simpler.
Patient-centric Workflow for Individualised Care
1. eGFR check prior to CT contrast procedure
Patient-centric Workflow for Individualised Care
2. Adjusts protocol for patient weight, CT tube voltage and selected contrast concentration to maintain target IDR/IDL and provides protocol preview
Patient-centric Workflow for Individualised Care
3. Catheter check to ensure compliance with site-configured flow rates and pressures
Injector and Contrast Media Considerations for Personalised Protocols
With a modern, streamlined user interface, modality worklist integration and built-in barcode reader, Centargo easily incorporates //Smart Protocols into the workflow. Combined with Ultravist®’s 2D barcode for automatic data entry, getting the information required to personalise protocols could not be simpler.
References
1. Mihl C et al. Evaluation of individually body weight adapted contrast media injection in coronary CT-angiography. Eur J Radiol. 2016;85(4):830-6. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrad.2015.12.031.
2. Martens B et al. Individually Body Weight-Adapted Contrast Media Application in Computed Tomography Imaging of the Liver at 90 kVp. Invest Radiol. 2019;54(3):177-182. doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/rli.0000000000000525.
3. Hendriks BMF et al. Individually tailored contrast enhancement in CT pulmonary angiography. Br J Radiol. 2016;89(1061):20150850. doi: https://doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20150850.
4. Seifarth H et al. Introduction of an individually optimized protocol for the injection of contrast medium for coronary CT angiography. Eur Radiol. 2009;19(10):2373-82. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/ s00330-009-1421-7.
