Hybrid OR
This channel includes news and new technology innovations connected with hybrid operating rooms, also referred to as hybrid ORs, hybrid cath labs or hybid interventional suites. These rooms combine catheterization lab and OR technologies and requirements fro both open surgical and transcatherer procedures.
Sapien 3 image courtesy of Edwards Lifesciences
News | Heart Valve Technology | July 21, 2015
July 21, 2015 — The recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals of two next-generation transcatheter...
Feature | Cardiovascular Surgery | July 17, 2015
July 17, 2015 - Building teams that include advanced practice providers can help cardiovascular practices meet the...
Toshiba recently introduced a new line of combined CT and angiography systems, allowing true CT imaging on demand in the interventional lab.
Feature | Angiography | January 27, 2016 | Dave Fornell
Angiographic imaging system vendors have developed several new technologies to address emerging cath lab trends,...
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | July 01, 2015
July 1, 2015 - CardiAQ Valve Technologies (CardiAQ) announced that its second-generation transcatheter bioprosthetic...
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | June 30, 2015
June 30, 2015 - Cardiac Dimensions announced the first patients have been enrolled in the REDUCE FMR clinical trial....
Technology | June 23, 2015
June 23, 2015 - Medtronic plc announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and U.S. launch of the...
Technology | June 19, 2015
June 19, 2015 - Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the Edwards...
News | Cardiovascular Business | June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015 - IMRIS Inc. received a letter May 26 from the NASDAQ Stock Market stating that it would be delisted and...
Videos | Heart Valve Technology | June 17, 2015
Interview with Juan Granada, M.D., executive director and chief scientific officer of the Cardiovascular Research...
News | April 07, 2015
April 7, 2015 — IMRIS Inc. announced that Visius iCT, its ceiling-mounted intraoperative computed tomography scanner,...
Novadaq's CO2 laser system being used to create a channel in the myocardium to promote angiogenesis in infarct tissue.
Feature | Cardiovascular Surgery | May 06, 2015 | Reza Dabir, M.D.
Transmyocardial laser revascularization (TMLR or TMR) was introduced in the late 1990s as a method to offer relief to...
Technology | March 25, 2015
March 25, 2015 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Toshiba America Medical Systems new Infinix 4D...
Technology | March 11, 2015
March 11, 2015 — NDS Surgical Imaging (NDSsi) announced the release of the 27-inch Radiance Ultra, a next-generation...
Technology | March 02, 2015
March 2, 1015 — CompView Medical (CVM) introduced an all-in-one equipment manager, visualization and ergonomic boom...
Adam Greenbaum, M.D., and William O'Neill, M.D., perform a TAVR procedure in a hybrid cath lab at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
Feature | February 17, 2015 | Lynn Tangorra
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is not only a breakthough minimally invasive medical therapy, but offers...
