| A mobile fluoroscopy machine refers to equipment | | | | themselves. |
| that is used with great frequency in the medical field. | | | | Fluoroscopes are very accurate in their readings and |
| A mobile fluoroscope is also commonly referred to as | | | | also decrease the amount of discomfort that the |
| a C-Arm or x-ray imagine intensifier. These machines | | | | patient feels during and after a procedure. Using |
| are used to project a "live feed" on a screen by | | | | fluoroscopy during various surgical or non-surgical |
| using x-ray images. | | | | procedures helps to minimize invasiveness. |
| There are two basic ways that a fluoroscope can be | | | | The use of fluoroscopes has also shown to lead to |
| used: as mobile equipment used commonly in theatres | | | | more cost-effective outpatient care programs in the |
| for lectures, or as a fixed piece of machinery that is | | | | medical field. Increased cost-effectiveness is just one |
| kept in one particular screening room of a hospital or | | | | of the reasons that fluoroscopes are such desired |
| medical center. | | | | machines in the health and medical fields. |
| Mobile fluoroscopes are smaller than their fixed | | | | The versatility of fluoroscopes acts as an extreme |
| counterpart so that they can easily be transported | | | | attractant in the medical field. This one piece of |
| to many different locations. As technology continues | | | | equipment is frequently used during orthopedic, spinal |
| to grow, mobile fluoroscopy continues to improve | | | | and general surgeries as well as vascular, |
| and become more and more powerful. | | | | neurovascular, urological, and cardiac applications. Its |
| Mobile fluoroscopes are typically used in hospitals for | | | | versatility is just one more reason that fluoroscopes |
| neurological imaging in theatre, endovascular imaging in | | | | are being used in the majority of hospitals. |
| theatre, therapeutic procedures in theatre, and | | | | Physicians undoubtedly appreciate the precise and |
| orthopedic imaging in theatre. | | | | fast information that these pieces of equipment are |
| Fixed fluoroscopes are used in most hospitals for | | | | able to report, while x-ray lab technicians enjoy the |
| many different applications and procedures. Some | | | | simplicity of the machinery and the extensive |
| common situations that might require the use of | | | | information that is given. |
| fixed fluoroscopy are fertility studies, therapeutic | | | | Since the invention of the fluoroscope in 1955, the |
| studies, endoscopy studies, barium studies, cardiac | | | | technology has continued to grow and improve. The |
| studies, and angiography studies. | | | | wide variety of benefits that fluoroscopy provides to |
| While all of this information proves fluoroscopy's | | | | hospitals speak for themselves: this technology has |
| benefits for the medical field, it's equally important to | | | | greatly improved the medical field. |
| realize how desirable fluoroscopes are to the patients | | | | |