“The activity is always intense. This is a service that never stops, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. Today, we are at Imagiologia at Hospital da Luz Lisboa. It's the same at Hospital da Luz Arrábida, Setúbal, Coimbra or Funchal... Here, there are no weekends or holidays and the night and day pass almost as if there was no break». This is how the journey through the medical imaging services of the Hospital da Luz Network begins , which we reveal in the new issue of the Informação Hospital da Luz magazine. With more than one million imaging exams performed per year, around 700 integrated health professionals and supporting a highly differentiated medical and technical team, and present in 26 hospitals and clinics in the Network – with more than two hundred equipment such as ultrasounds, x-rays, CAT scans, magnetic resonance imaging, mammograms, orthopantomography and densitometry – talking about Imaging at Hospital da Luz means talking about state-of-the-art technology and the ability to carry out increasingly differentiated diagnoses and treatments. In this edition, we show why Imaging is an area of strategic intervention for the Luz Saúde group, revealing the approximately 50 million euros invested in just six years in the acquisition, renovation and updating of the best imaging technology in the world. And everything to offer the appropriate response to patients at Hospital da Luz, in accordance with the most current state of the art of medicine. An MRI, where the exams are carried out while watching a movie or listening to your favorite music. The history and evolution of medical imaging, told by Hospital da Luz specialists who participated in its development. And health advice on what contrast and radiation are in imaging tests – these are some of the topics you can read in Magazine No. 2 of Hospital da Luz . ‘I want a toast’ In the new hybrid room of the operating room at Hospital da Luz Lisboa, unique in Portugal, neurosurgeon Domingos Coiteiro has, for the first time, the opportunity to treat a tumor in the brain of a young man without having to repeat tests and surgeries. The complete report – with video and photo gallery – is published in this new edition of Hospital da Luz Magazine and only by reading it will you know who said they wanted… a toast! In this Magazine, you will find much more to read. About Hospital da Luz Póvoa de Varzim, Hospital da Luz Setúbal, about the social responsibility initiatives of the Luz Saúde Group and about Hospital da Luz channels and social networks. There are videos to watch, photo galleries to accompany the reports in more detail and even a podcast to listen to. The Hospital da Luz Information Magazine, which talks about the professionals and services of the Hospital da Luz Network, is available online, with everything you can have! Read, watch and listen to the latest issue here .
