Mobile positioning table supports patients up to 230kg
To meet US requirements, Provotec GmbH & Co KG, of Espelkamp - which is entering US and international markets with their Prognost XPE tables - has increased the patient load and will have UL and CCC approval.
The bucky table is an inexpensive tool in the X-Ray department, Provotec points out. ‘However, due to the increasing use of movable stands, especially combined with digital image receptors, further requirements to the patient positioning table do arise. Along with tabletop movements in XYZ directions, to optimise the advantages of movable stands, table movement is desirable with a patient in the room.’
The Prognost XPE is a mobile patient positioning table with motorized elevating and floating tabletop, which allows variable patient positioning as well as optimal use of modern X-ray tube/image receptor combinations.
‘Not having a line cable makes the Prognost XPE - Akku particularly comfortable,’ Provotec says. ‘A rechargeable battery (accu) supplies sufficient energy to moving patients to the desired working heights. While one accu supplies energy to the table, another is loaded in the loading station. This is very user-friendly, because the accus can be changed simply and quickly and without a tool. Even if charge signals are overlooked and the accu is “suddenly” empty, changing it takes only seconds. The loaded accu can be removed with one hand from the loading station and replaced in the Prognost XPE – Akku, against the empty one. Using a fixed working height, but the advantage of a mobile table with the floating tabletop, Prognost XP is the right choice. Neither line cable nor electricity is necessary.’
Additionally, all versions can be equipped with a moveable Bucky, or cassette holder under the tabletop.
Details: www.provotec.com. Or, at RSNA 2006: Hall A – Booth 3948 B – the German Pavilion.
17.11.2006
