THE C-ARM: AN ESSENTIAL TOOL IN SURGERY

In surgical operations, alongside a team of skilled doctors, modern technical equipment plays a vital role in ensuring successful, safe, and efficient surgeries for patients. With its capability to provide high-quality images, the C-arm helps optimize and enhance precision in surgical procedures. This reduces invasiveness for patients, ensuring safety, minimizing risks, and saving surgery time.

1. What is a C-arm?

The C-arm, named for its C-shaped arm, encircles the patient’s body to capture images from multiple angles, ensuring precise positioning and comprehensive imaging. Like an X-ray machine, the C-arm has an X-ray source and a detector, but unlike conventional X-ray systems where images are viewed after processing, the C-arm provides real-time imaging to aid surgical precision. The imaging angles can be actively adjusted by the surgeons (e.g., lateral, from left to right, or oblique views using the C-arm’s rotational capabilities)

Doctors at Thai Nguyen International Hospital using a C-arm during surgery

2. Benefits of the C-arm in Surgery

The C-arm is a sophisticated device that allows surgeons to precisely locate critical areas for interventions such as adjusting, placing screws, or correcting alignments without the need for extensive surgical exposures, bringing benefits such as:

• Quicker surgical recovery.
• Reduced pain.
• Non-invasive or minimally invasive options.
• Less anatomical disruption.
• Earlier mobilization post-surgery.
• Aesthetic preservation.

Lower treatment costs due to shorter hospital stays.

Image displayed from a C-arm during a procedure

3. Indications for C-arm Imaging

The C-arm is not only used in orthopedic trauma interventions but also supports a wide range of fields such as:

• Spinal surgery: disc herniations, spinal injuries, vertebral slippage.
• Orthopedic surgery: bone realignment (bone setting), pediatric bone fracture treatments using pinning techniques.
• ERCP: Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography for diagnosing and treating biliary and pancreatic diseases.
• Esophageal dilation for treating esophageal strictures.
• Neurosurgery.

Thai Nguyen International Hospital has equipped itself with the latest generation C-arms and offers surgeries under C-arm guidance with a team of highly skilled specialists, well-trained technicians, and experienced professionals in the field of surgery. For consultations, please contact:

Hotline: 1900 8035

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Website: tnh.com.vn

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