Philips iE33 - Performing an Exam; New Patient Exams

7 Performing an Exam
This section guides you through procedures commonly used in performing
patient exams with the system. These procedures include entering patient
data; acquiring, annotating, and reviewing images; and making measurements
and calculations.
New Patient Exams
WARNING
Failing to end the current exam before starting a new exam can result in data
being acquired and stored under the wrong patient name.
You start an exam by entering patient data into the system. There are three
ways to enter patient data.
• If the worklist feature is not enabled or used on your system, you enter
patient data into the Patient Data form.
• If your system is connected to a DICOM network with the modality
worklist feature enabled, you can select an exam to load patient data
instead of entering that information manually. See "Selecting in the
Worklist" on page 189.
• If you want to start an exam without first entering patient data, you can
use the Temporary ID feature.
The system uses a unique ID to identify each patient. You can enter an ID, or
you can have the system create one automatically. Stored images and reports
are stored based on the patient ID.
NOTE
If different patient files are created using the same patient name and the same
patient ID number, the second patient file will adopt the date of birth (DOB)
from the first patient files. To avoid this duplication, ensure that individual
patient files are unique in either patient name or patient ID.
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