X-ray room

The Department of Radiation Diagnostics is a structural subdivision of the Russian National Center for Pediatric Surgery and carries out a wide range of modern highly informative X-ray diagnostic research methods. During the year, the children’s center performs more than 15,000 thousand X-ray examinations.

During the entire existence of the children’s surgical center (DCC), including after the formation of the RNPC of Pediatric surgery, the X-ray room of our institution carried out all types of X-ray examinations for the X-ray room equipped with three workstations: a turntable, a tripod, a table, a vertigraph. In the X-ray room, all types of routine X-ray examinations, X-ray examinations with contrast, manipulations in which X-ray control is necessary, for example: balloon dilation of a hollow organ, surgical removal of foreign bodies. The peculiarity of our institution is that our X-ray room performs X-ray examinations by patients of any age, including infants, newborns with critically low body weight. Due to the availability of mobile X-ray machines, X-ray examinations can also be performed in wards, including in intensive care units with the possibility of obtaining an X-ray image immediately, on the spot.

All work of the X-ray service is carried out using digital technologies, without the use of X-ray film, which allows you to significantly increase the speed of work, expand the possibilities for transmitting information and receiving or providing remote consultation.

The office is open around the clock

In 2021, the radiology department’s fleet was replenished with modern mobile digital devices that allow you to instantly receive high-quality images and reduce the radiation burden on patients. Rapid diagnostic capabilities made it possible to accurately route patient flows, which is important in a real epidemiological situation.