Siemens ACUSON Freestyle - Creating and Managing Patient Records

4-4 ACUSON Freestyle User Manual
Patient Studies
Patient Study Fields
To display the Patient Study elds press the SETUP Soft Key, then NEW PATIENT STUDY. When
entering data into the Patient Study eld, the [OK] key conrms an entry. The study information
includes the elds described in the following table.
Patient Study Information Fields
Option(s) Description
Last Name, First Name,
Middle Name
Patient name information.
Note that the patient’s name can be removed from saved image scans using the
anonymity settings. For more information, see “Removing Patient Information from
Images” on page 3-7.
Patient ID A unique patient ID number.
NOTE: If you do not enter a Patient ID the system will generate one based on
time and date.
Birth Date To enter data, use the number keys.
Gender Select either Male or Female.
Exam Select an Exam Type from the drop-down list.
Height, Weight To enter data, use the number keys.
To display values using the metric system, click the Metric checkbox.
Accession Type text into the eld.
Diagnosis Type text into the eld.
Institution Select from the drop-down menu.
The Institution name is displayed on the real-time imaging screen.
Physician Select from the drop-down menu.
Operator Select from the drop-down menu.
Comments Enter any additional information or comments.
NOTE: Patient Name and ID elds are limited to 64 characters. If the eld is too long to be completely
displayed on the real-time scanning screen, the entry will be shortened in the display and followed by
three dots.
NOTE: The system stores up to eight of the most recently used Institution, Physician, and Operator
entries.
When using an external USB keyboard, quickly pressing the following key combinations allows
you to enter special characters:
Press this key... then press this key Resulting character
‘ (apostrophe)
a, c, e, i, n, o, u, y, z á, ć, é, í, ń, ó, ú, ý, ź
“ (quotation mark)
a, e, i, o, u, y ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, ÿ
` (accent grave)
a, e, i, o, u à, è, ì, ò, ù
~ (tilde)
a, n, o ã, ñ, õ
^ (caret)
a, e, i, o, u â, ê, î, ô, û
= (equals)
a, o æ, œ
* (asterisk)
a å
- (dash)
a, i, o, u ā, ī, ō, ū
# (pound)
c, s, z č, š, ž
. (period)
e, z ė, ż
, (comma)
c, e, i ç, ę, į
/ (slash)
l, o ł, ø