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Foundation buys portable X-ray unit

Members of the Odessa Healthcare Foundation met with Drex Palmer, ART, Radiology Department Director, who showed them the portable X-ray machine that the foundation purchased for Odessa Memorial Hospital with the proceeds of the 2015 Wine Tasting and Auction event.

The portable X-ray unit is used when patients cannot or should not be moved to the radiology room due to their clinical condition. Instead, the X-ray machine comes to the patient. While the images of a stationary unit are preferred to those of a portable unit, the portable unit is necessary and helpful in times of severe injury or i...

 

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