Dr. John Cheatham, Director, Cardiac Catheterisation and Interventional Therapy, and Dr. Mark Galantowicz, Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery, both at the Heart Center of Nationwide Children’s Hospital, USA worked with Toshiba engineers to design the new table and evaluate the prototype to ensure it met their needs in a real-life hybrid setting. Nationwide Children’s is the first site with this hybrid catheterisation table in use in its hybrid cath lab.
"Using this new hybrid catheterisation table in conjunction with Toshiba’s bi-plane five-axis cath lab is the final piece in creating a premium hybrid suite," explains Dr. Cheatham. "The table is uniquely designed to meet the individual needs of both interventionalists and surgeons. It allows them to perform the same functions used in their respective home environments – the operating theatre and the cath lab – together in a single hybrid suite without any sacrifice in patient access, ergonomics or efficiency."
When working on patients in a hybrid setting, it is critical that the imaging system provides outstanding image quality, as well as the flexibility to reach ancillary equipment and the patient quickly and easily. The new hybrid catheterisation table features a 39-stone (250kg) table weight limit, making this table ideal for a range of patients from paediatric to bariatric. It also allows for angulations of up to 16 degrees in all four directions and offers the lowest table-top height of any catheterisation table in the industry. The 75-cm table height is particularly important for open surgical procedures, as it provides ultimate patient access and physician comfort, regardless of the procedure being performed. With the new table, Toshiba’s Infinix-i five-axis X-ray systems are designed to accommodate
endovascular catheter-based techniques, open surgical settings or a combined hybrid approach, for procedures including hypoplastic left heart syndrome and interoperative stent therapy.
"Patient access is critical for endovascular, open surgical or hybrid cath lab procedures because it allows physicians to complete the exam more easily and more comfortably," said Matthew Stork, Managing Director Toshiba Medical Systems UK. "The CAT-880B hybrid catheterisation table is designed to create the ideal hybrid cath lab when combined with our Infinix-i five-axis X-ray systems."
The table is currently available on all five-axis Infinix-i systems and will be available for other Infinix-i configurations in the near future.Photo: Toshiba CAT-880B hybrid catheterisation table
About Nationwide Children’s HospitalNationwide Children’s Hospital is one of the USA’s largest not-for-profit, freestanding paediatric healthcare networks, providing wellness, preventive, diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitative care for infants, children, adolescents and adult patients with congenital disease. A medical staff of nearly 900 and a hospital staff of 6,500 provide state-of-the-art paediatric care for more than 750,000 patient visits annually. As home to the Department of Paediatrics of The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital physicians train the next generation of paediatricians and paediatric specialists. The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one of the top ten National Institutes of Health-funded free-standing paediatric research facilities. Nationwide Children’s remains true to the original mission since its founding in 1892 of providing care regardless of a family’s ability to pay.
