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CARDIOLOGY SOLUTIONS CONTACT: Amanda Naiman Siemens Medical Solutions

(610) [email protected]

SIEMENS SHOWS HOLISTIC, INTEGRATED APPROACH TO CARDIOLOGY AT ACC 2006

Time is critical for cardiac patients, and clinicians need tools to more rapidly and

accurately move from diagnosis to treatment. Compared to a few years ago, today’s

cardiologists have a wealth of resources at their fingertips. Siemens’ “big picture”

solutions blend imaging, information technology (IT), and professional services to give

cardiologists a unique, customized solution that helps optimize clinical, operational and

financial performance, and enables proven outcomes.

Siemens helps clinicians and administrators realize the best achievable

performance in their cardiovascular programs. Siemens Integrated Performance

Solution (IPS) for Cardiovascular Services is a proven approach to performance

improvement for the cardiovascular practice, focusing on optimizing operations by

considering technology, processes and facility infrastructure in an integrated fashion.

Siemens (booth # 3431) portfolio of integrated cardiology technologies includes:

IT D elivers Robust, Holistic Cardiovascular Electronic Patient Record

IT provides clinicians anytime, anywhere access to valuable information to help

diagnose and treat cardiac diseases, while allowing them to spend more time with their

patients.

Soarian® Cardiovascular Enterprise, an electronic patient record solution,

helps physicians improve the continuum of cardiac care from diagnosis to treatment and

follow-up by integrating images and patient data to provide healthcare providers with

immediate access to complete clinical information. Soarian Critical Care addresses the

clinical, financial, and operational workflow challenges of the critical care team by

proactively integrating medical devices and information. It streamlines processes by

automatically collecting data from the bedside, including patient monitors and

ventilators, to create electronic documentation and near real-time patient information.

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Soarian Disease Management provides patients with the guidance and support

to manage and conveniently report on their daily health status, helps providers monitor

chronically ill patients’ adherence to care plans and provides a holistic picture of a

patient’s condition, pushing relevant information to clinicians. Soarian Operating Room

is designed to support the complete peri-operative process, from the time the physician

considers an operation, until the patient is received on the floor. This is achieved by

streamlining workflow processes such as scheduling, preference card management,

preoperative preparation, and the delivery of anesthesia.

Non-Invasive Solutions Setting New Standards in Image Quality

The combination of advanced speed and higher resolution images have expanded the

roles of computed tomography (CT) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and molecular

imaging (MI) in cardiology, enabling earlier disease detection and more effective

treatment.

The world’s first dual source CT, the SOMATOM® Definition, is faster than every

beating heart and capable of imaging full cardiac detail with as little as half the radiation

exposure compared to traditional CT scans. Setting new standards in cardiac imaging,

the system can image patients with high or irregular heart rates without medications that

have been previously needed to slow a patient’s heart. Physicians can better identify and

characterize plaque, an early indicator of heart disease. In addition, syngo® Circulation,

a dedicated software solution designed to fast-track cardiovascular CT based diagnosis,

guides the clinician through cardiac evaluation from automated heart segmentation, to

coronary vessel segmentation and stenosis quantification, to fully automated functional

analysis and reporting. The entire study, from scan to diagnosis, can be completed in as

little as 10 minutes. With a single click, the heart can be isolated from the rib cage,

facilitating rapid assessment of the overall cardiac anatomy and optimized stent planning.

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Available with the Tim® (Total imaging matrix) technology application suite,

syngo BEAT defies the stigma that cardiac MRI is complicated, time consuming, and

only used by experts and research centers. This single tool combines everything

needed to support a diagnosis of cardiac disease, allowing professionals to change

parameters with a click of the mouse – from 2D to 3D, breath-hold to free-breathing,

and morphology to functional or tissue characterization. Doctors can now use syngo

BEAT on more than 80 percent of their cardiac referrals. Siemens’ revolutionary Tim

technology allows the user to select exams, not coils, and provides the highest

acquisition speed without image artifacts or restrictions in coverage, giving radiologists

the opportunity to conduct advanced applications in cardiac imaging.

Symbia® TruePoint™ SPECT· CT combines the functional sensitivity of SPECT

with the anatomical detail of diagnostic multi-slice CT, providing clinicians with greatly

improved imaging clarity and diagnostic confidence. With a single scanning session, this

imaging technology quickly captures comprehensive, accurate information on both the

molecular and anatomical levels, enabling clinicians to detect changes in molecular

activity even before structural changes become visible. Biograph™ 64 provides

unprecedented image quality – especially for cardiovascular applications – with its

ability to perform high resolution CT angiography and positron emission tomography

(PET) myocardial perfusion, viability, and function in one accurately registered exam. As

the world's fastest PET/CT scanner, Biograph 64 provides extremely short breath-hold

times for the patient and motion-free images of the beating heart for the physician. The

Biograph 64 will enable a true one-stop cardiac assessment as a practical clinical

routine. c.cam™, a unique, reclining dedicated cardiac gamma camera system,

enhances imaging accuracy and efficiency while improving patient comfort. The

award-winning system’s myocardial viability and perfusion capabilities offer cardiologists

increased diagnostic confidence, and the system’s fully integrated software allows

analysis of ejection fraction and wall motion.

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Interventional Diagnostic Solutions Provide Unparallel Precision

Siemens diagnostic and treatment solutions for the catheterization lab are helping

cardiologists treat heart disease with unparalleled precision.

Enabling cardiac and cardiovascular applications, the AXIOM Artis with the

30X40 cm flat detector is a fully digital, ceiling-mounted imaging system designed to

support diagnosis and treatment in the cath lab. The system provides the speed,

flexibility, and integration needed for cardiology procedures, with a unique design for

accessibility to the patient. When combined with AXIOM Sensis hemodynamic and

electrophysiological recording system, it provides an integrated cath lab solution

necessary to help optimize workflow.

AXIOM Sensis provides accurate calculations of hemodynamic and

electrophysiologic data obtained during cardiac procedures. The Sensis reporting tool

presents information in a very clear and concise format that can be customized. With

Interventional Cardiac 3D (IC3D), cardiologists can create 3D images of the coronary

vessels in the heart, leading to increased support in diagnosis, faster examination times,

the use of less contrast medium, and lower radiation dosages.

Also being showcased is the ACUSON AcuNav™ 8F ultrasound

catheter. Sized at 8 French, it is 33 percent smaller in the cross sectional area yet still

provides the same high resolution and depth of imaging as the existing AcuNav 10F

catheter. The smaller size enables improved access during closure of atrial septal defects

(ASD) on smaller patients, and left heart applications for both interventional cardiology

and electrophysiology, bringing intracardiac echocardiography to a wider range of

patients. Siemens is also pioneering new ultrasound developments, including Axius

Velocity Vector Imaging™ technology, enabling more comprehensive cardiac

contraction and motion data.

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