By Sarah Rolles

New CT scanner arrives at Victoria Hospital

Dec 7, 2015 | 11:15 AM

Victoria Hospital received a very important new piece of machinery on Monday.

A new computerized axial tomography (CAT scan or CT scan) will replace the hospital’s current machine that is now 10 year’s old and has reached the end of its recommended lifespan.

Corinne Delparte, manager of medical imaging for the Prince Albert Parkland Health Region (PAPHR) said the CT scan is a very vital piece of machinery that performs over 9,000 scans a year.

“We are (the PAPHR) an extremely high volume site almost on par with City Hospital or St. Paul’s Hospital in Saskatoon,” said Departe. “So it’s a work horse and we do a lot of stuff through there.”

“When our CT scanner shuts down for maintenance because it is a machine and it just breaks we re-route a lot of patients to Saskatoon and a lot of the ambulance patients don’t stop here when our CT scanner is not functioning, so it is an extremely important part of our health care system,” she added.

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Delparte said the new CT scan, which will become fully operational within the next three weeks, will give a considerably lower radiation dose then the last machine and will produce much better images.

“The CT scanner is a computerized tomography, which means that it looks at x –rays, puts them into a computer and looks through the three dimensional imaging through the body,” said Delparte. “It’s used for all kinds of reasons. We can look at bones, we look at soft tissues, we can see vessels, we can see brains, we can see if you have had a stroke and it is what determines the severity of it and how we treat it.”

Delparte said the hospital’s old CT scan is scheduled to be decommissioned in February.

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