Patients
4-20 ACUSON Cypress™ Operator’s Manual
Removing a Study or Patient from the System
NOTE If you remove a patient name, all the studies for that patient are also
deleted. Once a study or patient is deleted it cannot be retrieved.
You can remove individual studies from a patient’s directory (but leave the
patient), or delete the patient entirely from the system.
To remove a study or patient from the system, follow these steps:
1. Press the PATIENT function key to display the Patient/Study list.
2. Scroll through the directory by positioning the cursor on the up or down
arrow and pressing <
ENTER> or by turning the Main knob.
3. When you have found the patient or study you want to remove, use the
Trackball and <
ENTER> key to highlight the patient name or the date of the
study.
4. Click the [REMOVE] button to delete the patient or study from the system.
5. A system message prompts you to specify what data should be removed by
clicking the corresponding radio button: All Data (deletes all information per-
taining to the patient), All Images (deletes all loops and frames; the patient
name and patient information remain in the Patient/Study List), or Unflagged
Images (all image data not flagged will be deleted).
6. Click [YES] to remove the specified studies.
7. To exit, press 2D or any Mode key except COLOR.
NOTE The Cypress system is not meant to be used for long-term storage of
patient studies. Completed studies should be moved to an MO disk
or network server. See chapter 9, “Transferring Studies” for more
information.