Are you planning on upgrading your Endoscopy Suite? There are a lot of reasons to be excited for a new GI Lab!
There’s also a lot of work and planning involved.
The biggest challenge you will likely face during an Gastrointestinal Lab replacement or upgrade will be finding a way to continue to treat patients during your Endoscopy Suite’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 Endoscopy Suite, 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 Endoscopy Suite replacement results in an average of 9.4 months of downtime.
9.4 months is a long time to be using a temporary Endoscopy Suite. When deciding on a temporary Gastrointestinal 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 Gastrointestinal Lab. These Endoscopy Suites are built directly into a hospital Procedure Room or Operating Room floor, ceiling, or both.
Endoscopy Suites consist of 3 main components:
Surgical providers can continue to operate on patients during downtime by utilizing mobile equipment to create a ‘Mobile Endoscopy Suite’.
These Mobile Endoscopy Suites consist of the 3 main components of a fixed Endoscopy Suite, but each component is mobile:
A Mobile Gastrointestinal Lab requires a room within the hospital to be converted into a temporary Endoscopy Suite during your Endoscopy Suite’s downtime. Common rooms we see converted into Mobile Gastrointestinal Labs include:
· Procedure Rooms in the Radiology Department
· Operating Rooms
· Any room in the hospital that is under utilized
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-arms manufactured just 10 years ago were not up to the task of providing Endoscopy Suite quality imaging. That has since changed. Today’s high-end C-arms manufactured by GE OEC, Philips, Siemens, and Ziehm likely provide better image quality and performance than the old Gastrointestinal 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
Your Interventional Radiologist depends on your Endoscopy Suite’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 an Endoscopy Suite’s Surgical Table can do:
· Free-float movements
· Airplane
· Trendelenburg
· Elevate
Endoscopy Suites 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 Gastrointestinal 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.
Atlas Medical is your one stop shop for a temporary Mobile Endoscopy Suite. We’ve helped hundreds of customers avoid surgical capacity limitations due the Endoscopy Suite 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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