Pirate-themed CT scanner helps New York City kids
Pirate-themed CT scanner helps New York City kids find calm waters before tests
The New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital recently purchased a CT scanner that makes medical tests seem less like a 'horrible, scary chore' and more like an adventure on the high seas.
The New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital has turned its CT scan room into a pirate-themed island.
Children enter the room by walking a plank and settling into a boat-shaped table. Radiologists then weigh anchor and slide the table right into the scanner, while swashbuckling pirates look on from the walls.
It’s still a fantasy and it doesn’t detract from the fact that many of the children who need these tests are coming to the hospital in pain. Some are coming to track the growth of cancers. Others have perhaps fallen down a flight of stairs and are suffering from ankle or skull fractures. Still others were born with conditions that need to be closely monitored, like congenital heart defects.
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“It allows children to imagine all sorts of things,” Ruzal-Shapiro said. “So it doesn’t seem like a horrible, scary chore.”
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Cool!
Anything to change up the dreariness of a hospital has to help.
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