Taho Forest Health System of Truckee, California, installed the fully motorized mobile C-arm. Siemens Healthineers designed it to address the needs of orthopedic, trauma and spine surgery. However, it also has utility in thoracic, vascular, cardiovascular and general surgery, plus urology and interventional pulmonology.
Ciartic Move accelerates and standardizes 2D fluoroscopic and 3D cone-beam computed technology (CT) imaging. Working in hospitals and outpatient facilities, it enables consistent automated workflows and reduced imaging time.
The system could address intraoperative imaging challenges caused by staff shortages and overloaded OR teams. A fully motorized C-arm can reduce the time, effort and workforce capacity needed to manually move and position the system. It has up to 12 procedure-specific positions while remaining storable along with related imaging parameters.
Sadie Wangler, director of diagnostic imaging at Tahoe Forest Health, said the hospital hopes to “alleviate the anxiety associated with being the only technologist in the operating room, knowing that other patient care needs can’t be addressed.”
Ciartic Move won FDA clearance in March of this year.
“Siemens Healthineers is proud to provide Tahoe Forest Health System with the first Ciartic Move mobile C-arm in the U.S.,” said Felica Kurz, SVP of Advanced Therapies at Siemens Healthineers North America. “This novel technology will help Tahoe Forest overcome staffing and workflow hurdles and save clinicians valuable time in the operating room.”
