A New Way of Looking at Things
It can get pretty crowded in an interventional procedure room, specifically for those places where image-guided therapy is being conducted. âSome of these procedures may require upwards of 15âor sometimes even 20âpeople in the suite,â said Barry T. Katzen, MD, founder and chief medical executive of Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida, in an interview with MD+DI. âAnd all of them have certain needs for technology, for space, for visualization, and things like that.â
He noted that in his area of specialty, cardiovascular imageâguided therapy, there has been a tremendous acceleration in the development new proceduresâeverything from angioplasty to stents to treatment of aneurysms, as well as treatment of aortic valves and replacing valves percutaneously. âIn doing so, weâve been working in both the environment and with technologies that were generally 10 years behind the times,â he said. âIn other words, the equipment might be modern, meaning new, but by the time it is implemented, it was designed for procedures we already know about. But weâre living in a time and space where procedures are developing at such a rapid rate that we very frequently are left with working in an image-guide...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Susan Shepard Tags: Imaging Source Type: news
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