Patent ID: 7264396
Filing Date: 2007-09-04
Classification: A61B,A61G

Abstract:
1. A system for medical emergency care and monitoring of a patient, the system comprising: a patient holding apparatus with a fixed base and a table mounted on the fixed base, the table protruding simultaneously past a portion of the fixed base movably supporting the table on a head end with a radio transparent first region and on a foot end with a radio transparent second region, the foot end on an opposite side of the fixed base relative to the head end; a CT scanner which is movable along a guide element in such a way that the second region of the table is operable to be brought, by moving the CT scanner, into a patient opening of the CT scanner; an x-ray unit which is arranged for taking X-ray images in the first region of the table protruding past the portion of the fixed base movably supporting the table; and a guided patient board that is adaptively configured to be accepted by the table and that is operable to slide on the table in a longitudinal direction such that the guided patient board can be positioned at a first imaging position and a second imagine position, the first imaging position being over the radio transparent first region of the table and the second imaging position being over the radio transparent second region of the table, the radio transparent first and second regions of the table both remaining protruding simultaneously past the fixed base on the head end and the foot end, respectively, for both the first and second imaging positions.