British American Investment - Apollo-Bramwell Hospital introduces advocate Heart Scan Technology

(Port Louis, Mauritius) - British American Investment is appreciative to advertise that the Apollo-Bramwell Hospital activity is in its final leg and is now adventure the accession of several advocate advanced equipment, including the Dual Source CT Scan alleged DSCT.
The CT Scan 2x64 slices is the world’s aboriginal Dual Source CT, which uses two X-ray sources and two detector arrays at the aforementioned time. The two X-ray sources at appropriate angle to anniversary added accomplish the CT scanner the fastest in the world. This technology from Siemens, dubbed SOMATOM Definition, is alert as fast as (the currently available) 64-slice cardiac CT scanners.
Says Dr Ed Hansen, Chief Executive Officer of Apollo Bramwell Hospital: “We are actual admiring to acquaint the CT Scan 128, a high-performance ability which was not accessible in Mauritius until now. The new machine’s acceleration is an important advance in analytic cardiology, as the technology is alert as fast compared to added CT machines in Mauritius. It captures top resolution images of a assault affection in abnormal after the charge for affection slowing medications.”
“Due to the top scanning speed, it is now accessible to access scans of the thorax, the affection or both at the aforementioned time in fractions of a second. For example, bust examinations will alone crave a browse time of 0.6 seconds. As a result, patients no best accept to authority their animation during the scan. This offers ample advantages, abnormally in cases involving the elderly, children, emergency, and ICU patients,” adds Dr Hansen.
It is aswell accessible to accomplish whole-body scans acutely fast: For example, a being with a acme of 6 anxiety 6 inches can be scanned in beneath than 5 seconds. Until now, such whole-body examinations took added than 10 account to accomplish from accommodating alertness to diagnosis. With the DSCT, this action is completed in just a few minutes.
“This represents a audible advantage, abnormally for emergency anesthetic back – until now – physicians generally had to abandon this assay adjustment due to time pressure. Furthermore, it is no best all-important to sedate accouchement above-mentioned to the examination, back they no best accept to abide still,” says Dr Hansen.
In accession to its speed, the Dual Source CT offers the adeptness to bigger characterize bendable tissues e.g. Type of renal stones: blazon of atherosclerotic plaques in arteries.

Basically, the bifold antecedent CT is a different apparatus to:
• Determine affection ache in patients who accept or may accept ambiguous cardiac accent analysis after-effects
• Accommodate adipose patients (up to 220Kg) who are difficult to angel with beneath able CT scanners
• Identify or aftereffect complete affection abnormalities
• Act preoperatively for some electrophysiology patients and top accident surgical patients who may accept affection disease.
Also accepting installed is the Philips 1.5 Tesla Whole Body MRI, which provides beat analysis for all patients and examinations. The accessories provides uncompromised above in arduous applications like ample field-of-view abdomen and breast imaging, compatible fat abolishment in all anatomies and connected off-centre imaging above all patients.
In all, medical accessories account about Rs400million are accepting installed at ABH, with an added Rs200million in agreement of ICT infrastructure.
“Apollo-Bramwell will be a advanced hospital in the arena with the accomplished standards of accommodating affliction and with absolute accessories beneath one roof. These two equipments are just examples of the top akin abstruse abutment that we are bringing to the country,” Dr Hansen said.

About Apollo Bramwell Hospital
The 200-bed, multi-speciality hospital, in Moka, in the centre of the island, is a collective adventure amid arch Mauritian business group, British American Investment Co. (Mtius) ltd, and India’s healthcare giant, Apollo Hospitals Group. The new hospital will abode centres of arete in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, nephrology and opthalmology, neonatology and paediatrics, agony and corrective surgery. Total investment in the activity is estimated at over US$70 actor (over Rs2billion) with application opportunities for over 500 staff. As a centre of medical arete in the region, the new hospital will be able to acceptable patients from both Mauritius and overseas.

About BA Investment
Based in Mauritius, British American Investment Co. (Mtius) Ltd is a fast-moving investment accumulation with backing in banking services, transportation, architecture and acreage development, tourism, barter and commerce, and healthcare.

About Apollo Hospitals
Apollo Hospitals Group is the better healthcare provider in Asia. With added than 7,000 beds in 43 hospitals, a cord of nursing and hospital administration colleges, and bifold lifelines of pharmacies and analytic clinics accouterment a assurance net above Asia, Apollo Hospitals is a healthcare powerhouse.

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