Philips PageWriter TC35 Cardiograph
Image: Philips logo and the PageWriter TC35 Cardiograph device with a patient's hand interacting with its touchscreen displaying ECG data.Intuitive and efficient
As a world leader in cardiology, Philips aims to simplify cardiac care, enabling the best treatment for patients. The PageWriter TC35 was created with this goal in mind.
Advanced yet easy to use, the PageWriter TC35 offers speed of operation in an attractive and affordable solution that can grow with evolving needs. It delivers fast, efficient clinical workflow combined with reliable operation for both clinicians and patients.
Image: The Philips PageWriter TC35 cardiograph device.Advanced, yet easy to use
The PageWriter TC35 cardiograph is designed for demanding hospital environments and clinic practice settings. Its easy 1-2-3 operation, touchscreen display, and additional tools facilitate quality ECG reports.
- Easy-to-use 1-2-3 touchscreen operation is fast and intuitive.
- Clinical Decision Support powered by the world-class Philips DXL ECG Algorithm.
- Scalability to meet current and future needs.
- Integrated into a rugged, compact trolley for easy mobility and storage.
- WLAN WiFi 5 speed (802.11 b/a/g/n/ac) for seamless connectivity.
- WLAN security: WPA3 (Personal)/WPA2 (Enterprise) for secure data transmission.
- Detects pace pulse as small as 0.02 mVms.
- Runs on battery for up to 13.9 hours.
- Features a 300 Hz low-pass filter for pediatric ECGs.
- Native DICOM support for downloading DICOM Modality Worklists.
- Automatic retrieval of previous ECGs at bedside.
- Export DICOM ECGs to existing PACS, EMR, and VNA systems.
The result is a fast, efficient, and advanced clinical workflow with reliable operation for clinicians and patients.
Image: Close-up view of the PageWriter TC35 keyboard and illuminated buttons.Image: A set of ECG electrodes and lead wires.Simple Placement & Rugged and Economic
Simple Placement: The compact leadset's simple, streamlined design enables ECG quality to be maintained even with staff turnover.
Rugged and Economic: The seamless design of the compact leadset means fewer equipment connections for staff to check and manage. Its streamlined design enables economic replacement in high-volume environments.
It is as easy as 1-2-3
User-friendly illuminated buttons speed workflow:
- [Connect Leads]: Waveforms are color-coded to indicate signal quality.
- [Enter ID]: The ID button enables entry of demographic information. Reduce the risk of errors by automating entry with a barcode scanner, or via IntelliSpace ECG, EMR, or PACS interfaces.
- [Take ECG]: Acquire, analyze, print, and export data with a single button. This standardizes workflow, ensuring each ECG is captured and screened, delivering critical, time-sensitive results to clinicians.
Designed around you
The compact system provides advanced features to support a variety of workflows.
Image: Two healthcare professionals, one in a white coat and one in business attire, looking at a device together.Advanced tools at your fingertips
The PageWriter TC35 offers advanced tools to enhance workflow and support clinical decisions. All PageWriter TC cardiographs feature the DXL ECG Algorithm, built on over 55 years of research and experience, ensuring continuity and consistency in ECG reading and diagnosis across PageWriter cardiographs, the IntelliSpace ECG management system, and other Philips solutions.
Never miss a beat & Extended View
Never miss a beat: With Disclosure, review up to five minutes of 12-lead ECG data. Mark events, select pre- and post-event ECGs for analysis, or choose the best traces for the ECG report – all at a touch.
Extended View: Previous events, captured more than 5 minutes in the past, are saved and can be reviewed and printed as 12-lead ECGs.
Connectivity and Workflow
IntelliSpace ECG Management System: Facilitates seamless integration.
Synchronize time: Automatically sets the PageWriter time with your institution's time master for accurate patient clinical history documentation.
Download orders: Import ECG orders with comprehensive patient information from IntelliSpace ECG, PACS, or EMR via HL7 or DICOM.
Image: A person using a laptop, implying network connectivity with the IntelliSpace ECG Management System.Image: Diagram illustrating the IntelliSpace ECG Management System, time synchronization, and order download process.WiFi 5 speed and WPA3 security: Supports open communication protocols 802.11 (b/a/g/n/ac).
Access ECGs anytime: With the PageWriter TC35 and IntelliSpace ECG, clinicians can access ECGs from virtually anywhere via the web-based ECG Anywhere app for viewing, confirming, and consulting.
Instant access: Easily acquire or enter patient demographic information via barcode scanning, keyboard entry, worklist download, or patient search.
One-touch workflow: The PageWriter TC35 can be configured to automatically save, export, or print ECG reports with a single touch.
Image: A Wi-Fi symbol indicating wireless connectivity.Image: Screenshot of a patient data entry or search interface.Image: Screenshot of an ECG waveform display or report interface.Clarity when it matters most
Clinical decision support provides the right information at the right time to guide the most productive course of action. The Philips DXL ECG Algorithm offers industry-leading ECG interpretations, including advanced STEMI decision support tools, pediatric analysis, QT measurements, and pacemaker pulse detection, aiding in the treatment of patients with chest pain.
Image: A detailed ECG printout showing waveforms, measurements, and diagnostic interpretations, including STEMI indicators.Check and confirm quality: Preview ECG waveforms and interpretation on the touchscreen to verify signal quality before printing.
Be sure: Patented LeadCheck software tests for 20 different lead reversals, ensuring diagnostic-quality ECG capture.
Reveal more: The DXL ECG Algorithm goes beyond traditional 12-lead interpretations, providing STEMI decision support tools and other incremental diagnostic capabilities.
Gender and age criteria: Criteria are differentiated based on gender and age to help interpret symptoms for specific patients.
Critical Values: Quickly identify patients needing urgent care, supporting Joint Commission patient safety goals.
STEMI-CA: Culprit artery criteria indicate potential occluded arteries, aiding clinical treatment.
ST Map: Provides a clear indication of ST elevation for quick triage.
Up-to-date statements: Enhances care consistency with terminology conforming to ACC/AHA recommendations.
Image: A pop-up dialog box asking "Possible lead reversal, check V2 and V3. Was lead placement correct?" with "No" and "Yes" options.Stay connected & Lock it down
Stay connected: The PageWriter TC35 integrates seamlessly into existing IT infrastructure and supports WiFi 5 802.11 b/a/g/n/ac, ensuring constant connectivity.
Lock it down: The PageWriter TC35 includes comprehensive security tools, such as secure and encrypted wireless WPA3 (Personal) communication, data encryption at rest, and user identification via Active Directory.
Image: A graphic representing secure data transmission with a lock icon and binary code.PageWriter TC35 benefits
For Cardiology Department Managers:
- 1-2-3 buttons light in sequence to guide the user.
- User aids support high-quality ECG reports.
- High-performance that is cost-effective.
For Emergency Department Managers:
- Quickly and easily view ST elevation.
- ECGs needing immediate attention are highlighted.
- A robust member of the proven PageWriter TC series.
- Up to 13.9 hours of normal operational cycles on a single charge.
For Cardiologists:
- Industry-leading Philips DXL ECG Algorithm.
- Provides a trusted second opinion.
- Advanced STEMI and NSTEMI diagnostic aids.
- Detects pace pulse as small as 0.02 mVms.
- Includes a 300 Hz low-pass filter for pediatrics as standard.
For Technicians and Nurses:
- Touchscreen operation is fast and intuitive.
- Five minutes of patient ECG history are available for review and creation of ECG reports.
For IT Administrators:
- ECG report export in XML, PDF, or DICOM format.
- Advanced WiFi 5 wireless capabilities (802.11 b/a/g/n/ac, WPA3 Personal, WPA2 Enterprise).
- Advanced security provisions.
- Extensive interoperability options.
Features
| Category | Feature | Details |
|---|---|---|
| ECG functions | Simultaneous lead acquisition | 12 leads |
| ECG reports | 3x4, 3x4 1R, 3x4 3R, 3x4 1R plus ST maps, 6x2, 12x1 Standard and Cabrera formats, plus Pan 12 Cabrera | |
| Standard measurements | Ten interval, duration, and axis measurements; Configurable QT correction method | |
| Rhythm strips | Up to 12 configurable leads | |
| Disclosure (D05) | Five-minute history of all 12 leads; Complete ECG report of any selected 10 seconds | |
| Event marking (D05) | Six independent events can be marked for later review and analysis; Event markers appear on ECG reports; Note can be added for each event | |
| Timed ECG | Support for pharma stress protocols | |
| Report storage and transfer | Full fidelity at 1000Hz of 10 seconds for all 12 leads | |
| Data format | PDF, Philips XML, DICOM General ECG/DICOM 12-Lead ECG/DICOM Encapsulated PDF formats | |
| Pace Pulse Detection | 0.02 mVms (e.g., 0.2 mV*0.1ms pulse or 0.1mV*0.2ms pulse) | |
| DXL ECG Algorithm (D03) | Interpretive statements | >600 interpretive statements; Integrated pediatric analysis |
| Borderline statement suppression | Three configurable settings | |
| Extended measurements | 46 measurements of morphology analysis in each of the 12 leads; 21 parameters of rhythm analysis | |
| Reasons | Selectable explanations of all interpretive statements | |
| Nomenclature | Aligned with 2007 AHA/ACCF/HRS Recommendations, Part II¹ | |
| STEMI diagnostic aids | Graphical ST presentation | Two ECG reports with polar ST Maps; Frontal and transverse planes |
| Age and gender criteria (D03) | Based upon Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction, 2018¹ | |
| STEMI-CA (Culprit Artery) (D03) | Criteria that suggest any of four probable sites of the occluded coronary artery; Based upon 2009 AHA/ACCF/HRS Recommendations, Part VI² | |
| Critical Values (D03) | Highlights four conditions requiring immediate clinical attention | |
| QRS Correction | QTc Measurements | Bazett, Fridericia, Hodges, Framingham |
| Wide QRS Correction | Rauthaharju | |
| Advanced bi-directional network communications³ | Central time management | Time can be manually or automatically synchronized to a Network Time Server |
| Orders worklist (D01) | Download of orders worklist from networked server; User-configurable drop down lists (e.g., by location); Ad-hoc query for specific orders based upon multiple user-entered or scanned search criteria (e.g., patient ID, last/ first name); Supported by Open Worklist with IntelliBridge Enterprise and select departmental systems; Supported by HL7 interface via IntelliBridge Enterprise; Supported by DICOM Modality Worklist | |
| ADT (D02) | Query and retrieval of patient demographic information; Based upon user-entered or scanned search criteria (e.g., patient ID, last/ first name); Supported by standard HL7 interface via IntelliBridge Enterprise for hospital systems | |
| DICOM ECG result output (D08) | Create DICOM 12-lead ECG; Create DICOM General ECG; DICOM Encapsulated PDF | |
| Privacy and Security | User authentication via AD/LDAP; Data encryption at rest SHA-256 and AES-128; Network access initiated only by PageWriter | |
| Network communications | TLS 1.2 or greater | |
| Security configuration capabilities behind customer-defined password | USB port access (on/off); HTTP vs. HTTPS; Encryption at rest (on/off); Delete archived ECG after transfer (on/off); User Authentication (on/off); Consistent security approach across PageWriter TC series – TC70, TC50, TC35, TC30, TC20, TC10; Device Management Dashboard available to manage configurations and software revisions centrally | |
| Signal quality indicators | Leads-off advisory | Anatomical lead map displays the location and label of loose or disconnected leads/electrodes |
| Lead color | Four colors to indicate quality of individual leads | |
| LeadCheck | Lead-placement software detects 20 different lead reversals | |
| Heart rate | Continuous display of patient heart rate | |
| Print preview | Full-screen preview of ECG waveforms prior to printing and export | |
| User training and self help | Training mode | Integrated waveform simulation |
| User interface | Touchscreen: 1-2-3 operation, Context-sensitive application, Five-wire, resistive touchscreen; Keyboard: Backlit 1-2-3 buttons, 65-button, standard full alphanumeric keyboard, Special characters supported; Membrane keyboard cover: Silicone-based flexible cover protects keyboard from particulate and liquid ingress | |
| Automated data input | 1D Bar code reader (H12): Reads Code 39 Symbology, Flexible field data entry; 2D Barcode reader (H17): High scan speed, Motion tolerance, Curved surfaces | |
| Technical Specifications | Display | Size: 6.5in TFT active matrix, Resolution: 640 x 480 VGA, Colors: 64K colors, Screen adjustability: 18 degrees tilt |
| Patient connections | Integrated lead set: Defib-protected ECG acquisition provides 1µV resolution, Acquire data at 8,000 samples per second, per lead wire; Long lead set (H23): Extended-length lead wires enable greater distances between the cardiograph and the patient connections | |
| End connectors (adaptors) | Welsh bulbs (E04): Six Welsh bulbs and four limb clamps; Snap/Tab adaptor (E06): Fits both snap and tab electrodes with metal on both sides | |
| Printer | Resolution: High-resolution, digital-array printer using thermal-sensitive paper; 200dpi (voltage axis) by 500dpi (time axis) at 25mm/sec | |
| Connectivity | LAN | 10/100 Base-TX IEEE 802.3 ethernet via on-board RJ45 |
| Wireless (D24) | 802.11 b/a/g/n/ac (WiFi 5) | |
| Wireless credential (D24) | WPA3 (Personal), WPA2 (Enterprise) | |
| FIPS | Communication supported by FIPS 140-2 certified encryption algorithm | |
| Archive / Internal storage (D06) | 200 ECGs | |
| External storage (D06) | 200 ECGs with optional USB device | |
| Configurable filters | AC noise | 50 or 60Hz |
| Signal processing | Artifact rejection and baseline wander | |
| Presentation filters – 10 sec reports | High pass | 0.02, 0.05, and 0.15Hz |
| Low pass | 40, 100, 150 and 300Hz | |
| Presentation filters – rhythm | High pass | 0.02, 0.05 and 0.15Hz |
| Low pass | 40, 100, 150 and 300Hz | |
| Electrical | Battery | Lithium ion |
| Battery capacity⁴ | 10 hours of continuous operation without printing, or 13.9 hours of normal operational cycles (7 minutes run, 1-page print, 8 minutes standby), or 55 ECGs produced during normal operational cycles, or 3 hours of continuous rhythm printing | |
| Battery recharge | Four hours to full capacity | |
| Main power | 100-240VAC, 50/60Hz | |
| Power consumption | 60W max |
Technical Specifications
| Category | Details |
|---|---|
| Battery Management Statistics | Statistics: Current status, Voltage, Expected max error (%) of charge calculation, Predicted capacity when fully charged, Remaining capacity in mAh, Current charge and state of health %; Charge current: value while charging; Discharge current: value while discharging; Cycle count: number of full charge and discharge cycles; Temperature; Battery unique ID, supplier information, device name, DOM, and SN. |
| Mechanical | Dimensions: 31 x 40 x 21cm (12 x 16 x 8in); Weight: 8.6kg (19lb) includes battery, lead wires, clips, electrode pack, and paper pack. |
| Cleaning and disinfecting | Approved solutions: Mild soap and water; Isopropyl alcohol (70% solution); Chlorine bleach (5.25% solution mixed as 3% solution in water); Quaternary ammonium compounds (e.g., Steris Coverage Plus NPD, 0.5 fluid oz/1 gallon water); Diethylene glycol butyl ether (5-10% by weight); Ethanol (ethyl alcohol) 70% (v/v); Metrex CaviWipes® Disinfectant; Phenol 2% (v/v); Gama Healthcare Clinell® Universal Range Disinfectant. |
| Environmental | Operating conditions: 10° to 40°C (50°F to 104°F); 10% to 90% relative humidity (non-condensing); Up to 3,048 m (10,000 ft) altitude. Storage conditions: -20°C to 50°C (-4°F to 122°F); 10% to 90% relative humidity (non-condensing); Up to 4,572 m (15,000 ft) altitude. |
| Safety and performance | International standards and regulations: General Requirement for Safety IEC 60601-1: 2005+A1:2012; Particular Requirement for Safety of Electrocardiographs IEC 60601-2-25 2011 Edition 2.0; Electromagnetic Compatibility IEC60601-1-2 2014. |
¹ Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction. Circulation 2018; 138 (2): pg e618-e651.
² AHA/ACCF/HRS Recommendations for the Standardization and Interpretation of the Electrocardiogram, Part II: Electrocardiography Diagnostic Statement List. J Am Coll Cardiology, 2007; 49:1128-135.
³ When networked with select hospital and departmental solutions; refer to supplier specifications.
⁴ Performance can vary in different environmental conditions.
