Hospital adventures: the designer turned the MRI machine for kids pirates island

Hospital adventures: the designer turned the MRI machine for kids pirates island

Want your children to be healthy, and their faces are always decorated sincere smile? Thanks to designer Arc the Diez your child will no longer fear the cold and scary buzzing of the MRI machine.

Industrial designer Arc is a Prime example of GE Healthcarewho once saw a little girl who was in hysterics and didn’t want to go for an MRI scan, he wanted to help poor children and to facilitate their long stay in the metal structure.

Hospital adventures: the designer turned the MRI machine for kids pirates island

And thanks to the brainstorming of employees GE Healthcare frightening even adults, the device has transformed into a thematic world of adventure. In 27 children’s hospitals devices for CT, MRI and PET scan turned into space ships, Islands, pirates and other favorite places of kids.

The transformation concerns not only the appearance of structures, but also create the right atmosphere. For example, before a PET scan, which takes about 45 minutes, experts say child mini-story about what he was going to get on a space shipwhose engines run very loud. These introductory words and a favorable view of the apparatus substantially soothe children.

«We used the children’s imagination in our interests — said Kathleen Kapsin, Director of radiology Children’s hospital of Pittsburgh. Instead go for a CT scan, you go to the island of pirates. We even have a monkey on a swing with which to play.»

GE Healthcare has developed a separate topic for specific hospitals. For example, for a children’s hospital in San Francisco, the designers have designed the unit near the cable car.

And in other medical centers children trying to prepare in advance to scanning, giving them themed coloring pages the day before the procedure.

Estimated GE Healthcare, implementation of this idea has cost the company about 50 thousand dollars.

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— Radiology UAE (@Radiology_UAE) July 16, 2017

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