Hybrid OR Angiography System
Hybrid Operating Room · Hybrid OR · Hybrid Suite · Angiography Suite · Fixed C-Arm · Robotic C-Arm
A large fixed C-arm X-ray unit, such as one mounted on a robotic arm, built into an operating room with an imaging-capable surgical table. The room keeps full OR sterile standards and uses ceiling booms for the electrosurgeryee-LEK-troh-SUR-jer-eeUsing high-frequency electric current through a handheld tool to cut tissue or seal bleeding vessels during surgery.Full entry , light sources, suction and gases to keep the floor clear.
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What it’s for
Gives cath-lab quality fluoroscopyfloo-ROS-kuh-peeAn x-ray method that shows moving pictures of the inside of the body in real time.fluor/o glowing (from the fluorescent screen)-scopy looking, viewingFull entry and angiographyan-jee-OG-ruh-feeAn imaging test that shows blood vessels by injecting a contrast dye and taking x-ray, CT or MRI pictures.angi/o vessel-graphy process of recordingFull entry in a sterile OR, so endovascular and open surgery can be done in the same room. Used for TEVAR and EVAR, transcatheter aortic valveay-OR-tik valvThe heart valve between the left ventricle and the aorta, which opens to let blood out to the body.Full entry replacement and hybrid heart procedures. If an endovascular repair fails, the team can convert to open surgery without moving the patient.
Lengths and variants
Made by several imaging companies. One example is the Siemens ARTIS pheno, a robotic C-arm with 9 axes that works with its own or a third-party surgical table.
What experienced techs know
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- Rothrock JC. Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery. 17th ed. Chapter 25 (Cardiac Surgery), p. 926
- pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- siemens-healthineers.com
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