The University Medical Center installed a high-tech, hybrid operating room as part of a $14.7 million project to technologically develop the University's cardiac facility.\nThe new, 938 square-foot space, twice the size of a normal operating room, allows patients suffering from heart problems to receive all of their medical treatment in one place.
The new arrangement combines a "traditional, invasive procedure room with advanced technology," said Gregory Wozneak, manager of invasive cardiology at the Medical Center.
The equipment in the new space was previously dispersed in separate locations throughout the hospital. With this new technology, however, doctors are able to "do procedures simultaneously that would have been done sequentially," Wozneak said.
Doctors are able to perform "open-heart surgery in [this] room that we would traditionally have done in an invasive-surgery room," he said.
This combination of traditionally separate operating rooms creates one area for physicians "to bring different skill sets together for the patient's best treatment," said Dr. D. Scott Lim, co-director of the University's Cardiac Valve Center. This leads to "a safer procedure and a procedure the patient recovers more quickly from," Lim explained.
The new technology is also being used to further the research development of the University's cardiac center. By bringing physicians from different areas of the hospital together, the new hybrid system allows them "to work collaboratively, which can sometimes lead to novel and less invasive approaches to heart problems," Lim said.\nThis new room is part of the renovation of the East Wing of the University Hospital's second floor that began in 2009 and is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year. The project aims to "upgrade our facilities with enhanced capacity and optimized technology," Wozneak said.
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