Temporary Hybrid OR Options

Are you planning on upgrading your Hybrid Operating Room? There are a lot of reasons to be excited for a new Hybrid OR!

There’s also a lot of work and planning involved.

Do you have a plan for continuing procedures during the resulting Hybrid OR construction and replacement downtime?

The biggest challenge you will likely face during an Hybrid Operating Room replacement or upgrade will be finding a way to continue to treat patients during your Hybrid OR’s downtime. This is essential to your patients, your surgeons, 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 Hybrid OR, 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. 

Atlas Medical has helped hundreds of hospitals, OBLs, and ASCs bridge this downtime gap. 

Our internal data shows that the average Hybrid OR replacement results in an average of 9.4 months of downtime.

9.4 months is a long time to be using a temporary Hybrid OR. When deciding on a temporary Hybrid Operating Room solution it is important to consider the both the workflow for your clinical staff and the patient experience.

The Best Temporary Hybrid OR Solution

Consider the components of a state-of-the-art Gastrointestinal Lab. These Hybrid ORs are built directly into a hospital Procedure Room or Operating Room floor, ceiling, or both. 

Hybrid ORs consist of 3 main components:

1. a fixed C-arm built into either the floor or ceiling
2. a vascular surgical table installed into the floor
3. a large monitor and boom installed on the ceiling 

Recent technological advancements have allowed manufacturers to offer these 3 components in a mobile offering that is clinically comparable to an Hybrid OR.

Surgical providers can continue to operate on patients during downtime by utilizing mobile equipment to create a ‘Mobile Hybrid OR’.

These Mobile Hybrid ORs consist of the 3 main components of a fixed Hybrid OR, but each component is mobile:

1. a mobile C-arm on wheels
2. a mobile vascular surgical table on wheels
3. a mobile large monitor system on wheels

A Mobile Hybrid Operating Room requires a room within the hospital to be converted into a temporary Hybrid OR during your Hybrid OR’s downtime. Common rooms we see converted into Mobile Hybrid ORs include: 

· Standard Operating Rooms

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.

What technology is used to create a Mobile Hybrid OR?

Mobile C-arm

Mobile C-arms manufactured just 10 years ago were not up to the task of providing Hybrid OR quality imaging. That has since changed. Today’s high-end Vascular C-arm manufactured by GE OEC, Philips, Siemens, and Ziehm likely provide better image quality and performance than the old Hybrid Operating Roomyou are replacing. This is made possible by the following technological improvements:

Flat panel detectors replacing Image Intensifiers

• Better image quality, large field of view, lower dose

Larger generators

• Prevents overheating and provides better image quality

Updated cooling mechanisms

• Prevent overheating that occurred in older C-arms

Motorized movements

• Allow for similar workflow as a fixed Hybrid OR

Vascular Surgical Tables

Your surgeons depends on your Hybrid OR’s Surgical Table to properly position and move their patients. Today’s leading Surgical Table manufacturers such as IDI and Stille offer mobile Surgical Tables that can do everything an Hybrid OR’s Surgical Table can do:

· Free-float movements

· Airplane

· Trendelenburg

· Elevate

Mobile Large Monitor System

Hybrid ORs offer Radiologists 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.

Where can I rent the technology and equipment to create a temporary Mobile Hybrid OR?

Atlas Medical is your one stop shop for a temporary Mobile Hybrid OR. We’ve helped hundreds of customers avoid surgical capacity limitations due the Hybrid OR downtime. 

Temporary Hybrid Operating Room CHECKLIST

• Identify room to be used for your temporary Hybrid OR
• Identify changes that will need to be made from your typical patient and clinical workflow
• Locate or source the 3 components of a Mobile Hybrid OR
• Mobile C-arm
• Mobile Vascular Table
• Mobile Large Monitor System

ABOUT ATLAS MEDICAL

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:

• State of the art technology
• Extensive clinical knowledge
• Award winning service

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