Magnetic resonance imaging
Ambient Experience
Enhancing the MRI experience for patients and staff
MRI exams can be stressful, particularly for anxious or claustrophobic patients, leading to non-compliance with staff instructions and potentially impacting workflow and image quality. Philips Ambient Experience addresses this with dynamic lighting, sound and video to create an engaging environment to improve the patient experience. It reduces anxiety, increases cooperation and satisfaction and provides comfort during MRI scans – ultimately enhancing workflow and productivity.
Ambient Experience
Transforming the MRI environment for patients and healthcare staff
Active relaxation and positive distraction can help improve the MRI experience
Demonstrated results - Success by the numbers
Improve the patient experience
An MRI environment perceived as cold, brightly lit, cluttered and unwelcoming can negatively impact the overall patient experience. A well-thought-out hospital environment can lead to physical and emotional comfort. By removing negative obstacles and clutter, and introducing elements for positive distraction with dynamic lighting, audio and visuals, you can improve patient and staff interaction. This can lead to improved patient compliance.
Ambient Experience for MRI
An MRI environment perceived as cold, brightly lit, cluttered and unwelcoming can negatively impact the overall patient experience. A well-thought-out hospital environment can lead to physical and emotional comfort. By removing negative obstacles and clutter, and introducing elements for positive distraction with dynamic lighting, audio and visuals, you can improve patient and staff interaction. This transformation helps empower patients with a feeling of control.
Empowering children with a positive MRI experience
Enhancing the MRI experience for pediatric patients can reduce the need for sedation.2 Preparation and active relaxation techniques can put children at ease, leading to better compliance, smoother workflows and faster patient throughput. This helps children hold still longer and may reduce the use of general anesthesia, lowering the risk of healthcare-induced trauma3 and empowering children with a positive healthcare experience. Pediatric Coaching is a holistic solution to prepare and guide children for their MRI exam, at home, at the hospital and in the bore.
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Enhancing the mobile care environment with Ambient Experience
Patients who are stressed about an MRI exam may find the mobile MRI unit even more confining. Ambient Experience for MR Mobile [6] supports the helium-free BlueSeal Mobile MRI system with a solution ideal to improving patient comfort. The mobile unit provides the flexibility to deliver fast, patient-friendly MRI services where and when they are needed – all in a calming environment.
Now with Ambient Experience, nearly every single patient goes through without issue. In the nearly two years we’ve been using it, I can count on one hand the number of patients who’ve quit on us.
Mr. Carlos Avila
Clinical Specialist
Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, Florida, Miami
Footnotes
- Ambient Experience installed base study 2020.
- Runge SB, et al. Children centered care: Minimizing the need for anesthesia with a multifaceted concept for MRI in children aged 4–6. European Journal of Radiology. 2018; 107:183–187.
- Lerwick, J. L. (2016). Minimizing pediatric healthcare-induced anxiety and trauma. World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics, 5(2), 143-150.
- At Radiologisches Zentrum am Kaufhof in Lübeck, Germany, patient sedation dropped by 80% with the MRI system using In-bore Connect compared to three systems without it.
- Herlev Hospital, in Denmark, reported a 70% reduction in rescans on a scanner with Ambient Experience and In-bore Connect compared to the average number of rescans reported on the other five on-site Philips MR scanners without Ambient Experience and In-bore Connect.
- Ambient Experience for Mobile is works in progress, not yet available for sale.
Disclaimer
Results are specific to the institution where they were obtained and may not reflect the results achievable at other institutions.