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Information about Personal Safety Safety
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Ruling out collisions
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The patient must be positioned in such a way that he or she can-
not collide with or be injured by table top movements or the tilt-
ing movement of the gantry.
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✧ Immobilize the arms of the patient with the straps supplied
to rule out collisions and injury to the hands under the table
top.
✧ With obese patients, make sure that no collision occurs.
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CAUTION
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Improper patient positioning!
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Injury of the patient.
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✧ Ensure that neither the patient’s clothing nor hair can get
caught in mechanical parts.
✧ It is very important to ensure that infusion lines and respi-
ration tubes, catheters and ECG cables cannot get caught in
the space between the table top and the side parts. These
components must not be put under tensile stress in any
other way.
✧ Make sure that patient bedding cannot get caught between
the parts of the patient table.
✧ Use positioning aids as described.