Trade group: Old imaging equipment is undermining patient safety across Europe
Around a quarter of the CT installed base in Europe is so outdated that it can’t be upgraded with the latest advances in, for example, radiation dose-management and reiterative reconstruction.
That’s according to COCIR, a Brussels-based European medical trade association, which sounded the alarm over the situation at the recently concluded European Congress of Radiology.
“[W]e urge healthcare providers to replace aging and outdated [imaging] equipment as part of a more patient-centric approach to advancing safety,” COCIR head Nicole Denjoy says in prepared remarks published March 20 in the online outlet News Medical. “Cost should longer be used as a barrier or objection to replacing obsolete units.”
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