The 1,000 foot square feet hybrid operating room opened about a year ago allowing a growing number of patients who were traditionally managed only through open procedures to undergo minimally invasive procedures.
“The simplest way for us to define a hybrid OR is an environment that enables both catheter-based interventional procedures and open surgical procedures to be performed in the same room,” says Greg McIff, director, cardiovascular strategic marketing, with GE Healthcare’s Surgery unit.
“You can access all of these rooms freely through motion-activated doors,” says Dr. Joseph Lombardi, head of the hospital’s division of vascular and endovascular surgery. “They slide open like in Star Trek.”
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