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. “Some of these procedures may require upwards of 15—or sometimes even 20—people in the suite,” 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. “And all of them have certain needs for technology, for space, for visualization, and things like that.” He noted that in his area of specialty, cardiovascular image–guided therapy, there has been a tremendous acceleration in the development new procedures—everything from angioplasty to stents to treatment of aneurysms, as well as treatment of aortic valves and replacing valves percutaneously. “In doing so, we’ve been working in both the environment and with technologies that were generally 10 years behind the times,” he said. “In 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 we’re 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: Tags: Imaging Source Type: news