The Erding Clinic is expanding its diagnostic spectrum.
A new MRT will go into operation on Monday.
Erding - Anyone who “looks into the tube”, according to the old saying goes empty-handed.
The opposite is the case with the tube, which will go into operation on Monday at the Erding Clinic.
The hospital now has its own state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging scanner (MRT), which considerably expands the diagnostic spectrum on Bajuwarenstrasse.
As the sponsor, the district has invested around one million euros in the device from General Electric alone.
At the same time, a second CT was purchased and installed in autumn 2020.
This technical progress has a total of 2.4 million euros, said Matthias Huber from property management at the presentation on Tuesday.
The project is part of a multi-year investment and technology offensive with which the district council and hospital committee want to expand the clinic in a future-proof manner.
District Administrator Martin Bayerstorfer reported that the district had invested 3.2 million euros in the past year.
This year it should be 3.4 million.
By 2023, 14.5 million euros will be available - primarily for medical technology upgrade, but also a new main department - urology.
An MRI plays a key role in providing contemporary patient care.
Head of Radiology Dr.
Gerda Leinsinger and the responsible medical-technical radiology assistant Claudia Kressierer presented the range of treatments at the press conference: imaging procedures after slipped discs and herniated discs, shoulder and neck injuries, diseases in the abdomen, the biliary tract and the pancreas, tumor detection and visualization of vessels.
Medical Director PD Dr.
Lorenz Bott-Flügel hopes for a wider spectrum in the detection and treatment of heart diseases.
As costly as it was to acquire, clinic director Dr.
Dirk Last does not consider them profitable because of the wider range of treatments.
This has to do with Corona: "All houses have benefited from the first hospital rescue package.
Only emergency level II clinics can hatch under the second.
And we can only get into it if we can offer an MRI standby service around the clock.
A CT had already been installed in the clinic.
But that belonged to the resident radiologist Dr.
Jakob Sinzinger, who rented it to the clinic by the hour.
“Now we have the opposite situation.
The MRT belongs to us, but we will also rent it to the Sinzinger practice.
However, our patients have priority, ”emphasizes Bayerstorfer.
The old device was dismantled and transported to Kosovo after 18 years of operation.
In addition to the MRI, the clinic has two computer tomographs - and only recently.
“The Free State provided us with the second CT for the corona pandemic,” says Bayerstorfer.
The long-term goal is to install one of the devices in the - extended - emergency room.
For the time being, one CT is in a container set up for this purpose on the west side of the clinic, the second is next to the MRT in the functional wing behind the foyer.
"It makes sense in the emergency room," confirms chief physician Leinsinger.
“Because with the CT a result is available within seconds.” The patients lie in the MRI tube for 15 minutes or longer - but the images are better.
You and Kressierer explain that a CT works with X-rays, an MRI with magnetic radiation.
The new Erdinger device is not only state-of-the-art - the diagnostic quality is 50 percent higher, according to clinic spokeswoman Daniela Fritzen.
Because it also works faster, according to Last, significantly more patients can be "x-rayed".
The MRI also has a wider tube.
"This is important for patients with claustrophobia," reveals Leinsinger.
And Kressierer is happy for her colleagues that "the new stretcher eliminates the need to transfer beds twice, which is also more comfortable for the patients".
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