Are you planning on upgrading your Cardiac Cath Lab? There are a lot of reasons to be excited for a new Cardiac Catheterization Lab!
There’s also a lot of work and planning involved.
The biggest challenge you will likely face during an Cardiac Catheterization Lab replacement or upgrade will be finding a way to continue to treat patients during your Cath Lab’s downtime. This is essential to your patients, your Radiologists, and your facility’s bottom line.
If you do not plan for your downtime properly the result will be reduced procedure capacity for your providers that will consequently force them to reduce their surgical volume. This negatively impacts both your patients and your bottom line.
When upgrading to a new Cath lab, manufacturers such as GE, Philips, and Siemens will tell you that your downtime will be between 3 to 6 months. This is the best-case scenario.
Our internal data shows that the average Cath lab replacement results in an average of 9.4 months of downtime.
9.4 months is a long time to be using a temporary Cath Lab. When deciding on a temporary Cardiac Catheterization Lab solution it is important to consider the both the workflow for your clinical staff and the patient experience.
Consider the components of a state-of-the-art Cardiac Catheterization Lab. These Cath Labs are built directly into a hospital Procedure Room or Operating Room floor, ceiling, or both.
Cath Labs consist of 3 main components:
Recent technological advancements have allowed manufacturers to offer these 3 components in a mobile offering that is clinically comparable to a Cath Lab.
Surgical providers can continue to operate on patients during downtime by utilizing mobile equipment to create a ‘Mobile CATH Lab’.
These Mobile Cath Labs consist of the 3 main components of a fixed Cath Lab, but each component is mobile:
A Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Lab requires a room within the hospital to be converted into a temporary Cath Lab during your Cath Lab’s downtime. Common rooms we see converted into Mobile Cardiac Catheterization Labs include:
Since all of the technology is mobile it can be wheeled in and out of the room. The only potential limiting factor are local laws regarding having led lined walls for mobile fluoroscopy equipment. These laws vary by region.
Mobile C-arm
Mobile C-arms manufactured just 10 years ago were not up to the task of providing Cath Lab quality imaging. That has since changed. Today’s high-end Vascular C-arms manufactured by GE OEC, Philips, Siemens, and Ziehm likely provide better image quality and performance than the old Cardiac Catheterization Lab you are replacing. This is made possible by the following technological improvements:
Flat panel detectors replacing Image Intensifiers
Larger generators
Updated cooling mechanisms
Motorized movements
Vascular Surgical Tables
Your Interventional Radiologist depends on your Cath Lab’s Vascular Surgical Table to properly position and move their patients.
Today’s leading Surgical Table manufacturers such as IDI and Stille offer mobile Vascular Surgical Tables that can do everything a Cath Lab’s Surgical Table can do:
· Free-float movements
· Airplane
· Trendelenburg
· Elevate
Mobile Large Monitor System
Cath Labs offer surgeons high quality images on large screens. A 19” or 32” mobile C-arm screen doesn’t compare to the 55” 4K monitor that is used in today’s Cardiac Catheterization Labs.
Atlas Medical offers a 55” 4K mobile monitor system to pair with your mobile C-arm. This system can connect to your mobile C-arm via or DVI cable or wirelessly.
Ensuring continuity of cardiac care is paramount.
The mobile solution described up to this point may not work for all hospitals. Although the gap has been closed there are still limitations between a fixed Cardiac Catheterization Lab and a mobile Cath Lab that utilizes a mobile C-arm. Surgeons may not be comfortable with the latter. Additionally, hospitals often have space constraints and don't have an extra procedure room available for this equipment.
Enter the Mobile Cath Lab Trailer or Mobile Cath Lab Truck from Atlas Medical.
Our Mobile Cath Lab Trailers are designed to allow hospitals to bridge the gap during renovations or to allow a temporary increase in case volume. Mobile Cath Lab Trucks offer the same cutting-edge technology found in a fixed cath lab, all within a conveniently accessible trailer parked in the hospital's parking lot.
The interior layout of our Mobile Cath Lab Trailers mirrors that of a standard cath lab. Medical staff and surgeons can maintain their standard workflow.
Atlas Medical is your one stop shop for a temporary Mobile Cath Lab. We’ve helped hundreds of customers avoid surgical capacity limitations due the Cath Lab downtime.
Atlas Medical has been providing hospitals with mobile imaging and interventional solutions for over a decade. Hospitals continue to work with Atlas Medical for their mobile imaging needs after experiencing our conversion of:
Our mobile imaging and interventional fleet includes:
Diagnostic Imaging Mobile Rentals:
MRI, CT
Interventional Mobile Rentals:
Cardiac Cath, Angio, Vascular, Interventional Radiology, and EP
Atlas Medical works with customers that need rental mobile imaging solutions during construction downtime, do not have permanent access to state of the art imaging and interventional technology, are experiencing a temporary or seasonal volume increase, and/or require a temporary rental solution while waiting for budget approvals.
Reach out today to tailor a mobile solution for YOU.
support@atlas-medllc.com
Say hello to Sean Schneider - our Mobile Project Manager at Atlas Medical. Sean has worked in the medical imaging industry for over 20 years, including 10 years with Atlas Medical.
Sean has a knack for making complicated projects simple to understand. Around here, Sean's the man who keeps things moving smoothly.
When Sean isn't helping launch our mobile imaging units at new sites he enjoys spending time with his family, golf, and hockey.
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