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Autor: Fecha: 19 de noviembre del 2013
NewYork Presbyterian has about 200 inpatients per day, treating about 150 kids each day in the pediatric emergency room and now has a new CT scanner that makes it’s patients feel like buccaneers casting off on an open sea adventure.
Following a study in 2001 by New York Presbyterian finding that CT scanners might be harmful, the institution which is one of the biggest children’s hospitals in country and the only one in Manhattan, worked with GE to design and install a machine that is both safer and makes kids feel like they’re sailing the high seas.
On average, every day kids ranging from newborn to age 21 come in for CT scan for ailments from neonatal abnormalities to abdominal pain to head trauma. “Our more adult patients ages 17 to 21 ask for the pirate scanner, too” Ruzal Shapiro says.
In actuality, there are no games or techs dressed up like pirates for the patients to play with; it’s a monkey painted on wall wearing a bandana, a tiger with an eye patch, and a device normally used to detect bone trauma, tumors, and hemorrhages dressed up like the helm of a ship. “Kids who are sick know so many ways of distancing themselves from what is going on physically” says Hawkins. “
“Much more than grown-ups do. I mean, we pay for yoga, it doesn’t work. We’re told if you can meditate you’re smarter the children are the smartest.”
Following a study in 2001 by New York Presbyterian finding that CT scanners might be harmful, the institution which is one of the biggest children’s hospitals in country and the only one in Manhattan, worked with GE to design and install a machine that is both safer and makes kids feel like they’re sailing the high seas.
On average, every day kids ranging from newborn to age 21 come in for CT scan for ailments from neonatal abnormalities to abdominal pain to head trauma. “Our more adult patients ages 17 to 21 ask for the pirate scanner, too” Ruzal Shapiro says.
In actuality, there are no games or techs dressed up like pirates for the patients to play with; it’s a monkey painted on wall wearing a bandana, a tiger with an eye patch, and a device normally used to detect bone trauma, tumors, and hemorrhages dressed up like the helm of a ship. “Kids who are sick know so many ways of distancing themselves from what is going on physically” says Hawkins. “
“Much more than grown-ups do. I mean, we pay for yoga, it doesn’t work. We’re told if you can meditate you’re smarter the children are the smartest.”
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