Ambient Experience
Enhancing the MRI experience for patients and staff with Philips Ambient Experience
Creating a calming and efficient care environment
MRI exams can be stressful, particularly for anxious or claustrophobic patients, leading to non-compliance with staff instructions and potentially impacting workflow and image quality.
Philips Ambient Experience addresses this with dynamic lighting, sound and video to create an engaging environment to improve the patient experience. It reduces anxiety, increases cooperation and satisfaction and provides comfort during MRI scans – ultimately enhancing workflow and productivity.
Ambient Experience
Transforming the MRI environment for patients and healthcare staff
Active relaxation and positive distraction can help improve the MRI experience
Demonstrated Results - Success by the numbers
80%
reduction in sedation1
For claustrophobic patients
70%
reduction in rescans2
By minimizing rescans and interrupted scans
91%
of respondents3
Are likely to recommend Ambient Experience
80%
of respondents3
Rated Ambient Experience impactful in alleviating patient anxiety
Features
Improve the patient experience
An MRI environment perceived as cold, brightly lit, cluttered and unwelcoming can negatively impact the overall patient experience. A well-thought-out hospital environment can lead to physical and emotional comfort. By removing negative obstacles and clutter, and introducing elements for positive distraction with dynamic lighting, audio and visuals, you can improve patient and staff interaction. This can lead to improved patient compliance.
Ambient Experience for MRI
Ambient Experience for MRI uses interactive technology to transform a typical MRI suite, providing a unique calming and engaging experience. Patients personalize the room's lighting, video and sound by selecting a theme of their choice. This transformation helps empower patients with a feeling of control.
Dynamic colored spotlights, video projection and calming sounds form a relaxing ambiance. In-bore Connect continues the theme in the bore and helps guide the patient during the exam.
Empowering children with a positive MRI experience
Enhancing the MRI experience for pediatric patients can reduce the need for sedation.2 Preparation and active relaxation techniques can put children at ease, leading to better compliance, smoother workflows and faster patient throughput. This helps children hold still longer and may reduce the use of general anesthesia, lowering the risk of healthcare-induced trauma3 and empowering children with a positive healthcare experience.
MRI compatible technology
MRI-compatible spotlights provide a dynamic wall-wash to create a welcoming first impression. Dynamic colored spots enhances the atmosphere for a premium patient experience, while supporting orientation and focus. Wall projection, with over 40 themes, effectively provides positive distraction from the exam. This can ease patient stress, reduce motion, interruptions and rescans and potentially improve your workflow effectiveness.
1. Audio system 2. Side wall projection 3. MRI (not part of the AE solution) 4. Dynamic lighting 5. In-bore Connect 6. Coil cabinet 7. Rounded corners 8. Control room touchscreen 9. Integrated projector 10. Patient touchscreen 11. Child preparation area 12. External Audio/Video
In-bore Connect
In-bore Connect uses audio and visuals to help patients remain calm and compliant while in the bore. A small mirror is placed in their line of sight to see the video display positioned out at the rear of the scanner. The selected active relaxation theme provides positive distraction. Patient compliance is supported by step-by-step visual guidance of breath hold and progress information – triggered in real-time by the Philips MRI exam card.
Active relaxation through personalization
Patients can customize their environment using active relaxation themes to create the desired ambiance. Well-researched Ambient Experience themes are designed based on the physiological effects of stress and its impact on healing. The collection of themes caters to various ages and cultures, including pediatric and nature-oriented topics, which aim to make patients feel at ease and involved during their MRI experience.
Cinema in the bore
Allowing patients to watch their own videos on the Philips Ambient Experience system can help provide a more personalized and comforting MRI experience during what can be a stressful time. This capability can give patients a sense of control and familiarity, which can contribute to a more positive overall experience.
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Enhancing the mobile care environment with Ambient Experience
Patients who are stressed about an MRI exam may find the mobile MRI unit even more confining. Ambient Experience supports the helium-free BlueSeal Mobile MRI system with a solution ideal to improving patient comfort. The mobile unit provides the flexibility to deliver fast, patient-friendly MRI services where and when they are needed – all in a calming environment.
Ambient Experience is available on:
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MR 7700
Experience breakthrough innovation in 3.0T imaging with the unique design of the Philips MR 7700 imaging system, enhanced with XP gradients and artificial intelligence (AI). The system is built to address a pressing need to deliver on the clinical expectations of today, and to facilitate the most demanding research programs. The MR 7700 provides high accuracy, power, and endurance to support confident diagnosis for every patient. It is the system of choice for highest quality diffusion imaging and advanced neuroscience. Extend your scanning capabilities with a fully integrated multi-nuclei imaging and spectroscopy solution to explore new clinical pathways without sacrificing clinical imaging workflow or wide-bore patient comfort. What’s more? The MR 7700 promises a great experience for both users and patients through the ease-of-use features of a well-designed clinical 3.0T scanner together with a no compromise workflow. Now scientists and clinicians alike can schedule without conflict.
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Ingenia Ambition 1.5T X
Based on its new, revolutionary fully sealed BlueSeal magnet, Ingenia Ambition X lets you experience more productive¹ helium-free MR operations. The Ingenia Ambition X delivers superb image quality even for challenging patients, and performs MRI exams up to 50% faster² with Compressed SENSE accelerations for all anatomies, in both 2D- and 3D scanning. Fast overall exam-time is achieved by simplifying patient handling at the bore with the touchless guided patient setup. Furthermore, the Ingenia Ambition offers an immersive audio-visual experience to help calm patients and guide them through MR exams.
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MR 5300
This innovative 1.5T MRI system is powered by Philips exclusive BlueSeal magnet for helium-free operations. And it incorporates a wealth of AI²-driven technologies to simplify and automate the most complex clinical and operational tasks. So you can focus on what matters the most: your patients. This breakthrough solution is designed to help boost MR productivity, speed up exams, empower clinicians to make informed clinical decisions, and control the costs of MR imaging.
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BlueSeal Mobile 1.5T
Our innovative portfolio of BlueSeal Mobile MRI systems with helium-free operations is giving you the flexibility to deliver fast and patient friendly MRI services where and when needed. Combined with an attractive TCO in daily operations and eliminating helium-related costs associated with loss of helium during the lifetime. The systems are designed to deliver smart productivity with automation and AI tools for high productivity and high clinical quality to meet your imaging needs.
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Now with Ambient Experience, nearly every single patient goes through without issue. In the nearly two years we’ve been using it, I can count on one hand the number of patients who’ve quit on us.”
Dr. Carlos Avila
Clinical Specialist
Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute , Florida, Miami
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Footnotes
[1] Compared to sedation rates on three on-site systems without (visible) InBore Connect. The sedative agent used was Diazepam, a valium-based derivative. Results from case studies are not predictive of results in other cases. Results in other cases may vary.Kesseböhmer J. Can enhancing the MRI In-bore Experience reduce the need for patient sedation? Diagnostic Imaging Europe 2017.
[2] *compared to the average number of rescans reported on the other five on-site Philips MR scanners without Ambient Experience and In-bore Connect. Results from case studies are not predictive of results in other cases. Results in other cases may vary - FieldStrength MRI magazine User experiences - February 2018
[3] Ambient Experience installed base study 2020.
[4] Lerwick, J. L. (2016). Minimizing pediatric healthcare-induced anxiety and trauma. World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics, 5(2), 143-150.
