What is the difference between freehand technique and laser technique?
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Dr Vaibhav Jain
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In the former, you are guided by your experience and ability; whereas the latter compliments your technique to achieve the desired result.
What made you opt for the product?
I am a firm believer in technology and willing to try newer devices that help doctors like us with our workflow and patient-care.
How has it helped enhance healthcare delivery?
This product; SimpliCT, is a compact, portable and convenient device which augments the natural abilities of the interventionist to perform CT-guided procedures. The laser guidance is accurate and covers a wide range of angles in both the transverse as well as the z-axis. It is easy to get familiar with the mechanism and it does not require any complex calculations or preparations beforehand.
What are the benefits to doctors and patients?
SimpliCT augments the performance of the CT interventionist by providing an accurate guidance. It increases the consistency and reproducibility of good results by an experienced interventionist and will definitely shorten the learning curve for beginners. In my experience, it shortens the procedure time and saves on the unnecessary check scans. All these lead to benefits to the performer, hospital and patient. Lesser passes and lesser check scans, all translate to lesser radiation dose to the patient, lesser tube damage, more throughput and most important; lesser chance of complications due to repeated punctures.
What are its three unique features?
I believe that the three unique features of this product are wide range in transverse and z-axis; simple and convenient mechanism of guidance and ability to reduce the procedure time.