Hybrid OR: The efficient solution for integrating diagnosis and therapy

Hybrid ORs are an emerging trend at more and more clinics nowadays as they enable a multitude of new surgical procedures. Hybrid ORs are combined operating rooms containing large imaging equipment, such as MRT and CT, that enables intraoperative diagnostics. If provided for in the hygiene and room concept, the hybrid OR can also be used purely as a diagnostics room or as a classic operating room.

Likewise operating rooms with integrated inpatient or mobile angiography devices are also called hybrid ORs. Simply imagine an operating room with a completely equipped cardiac catheter laboratory. This definition of a hybrid OR has gained increasing acceptance in recent years because more and more cardiologists and vascular surgeons employ hybrid procedures. Specifically this means that interventional treatment by means of a vascular catheter, for instance, is combined with open surgery treatment.

Purchasing large devices, such as MRTs, CTs or angiography equipment, is always a big investment for clinics. So it's all the more important to use such equipment as economically as possible. If this is done in a hybrid OR, both human and technical resources can be utilized optimally. Integration of a hybrid OR into the central OR department generates the most advantages. In particular because a hybrid OR permits interdisciplinary applications and is thus available to the OR management as an operating room resource. In short, once the hybrid OR is set up, the clinic can save enormous costs through its use and additionally optimize the selection and quality of the treatment methods. This also increases patient and staff satisfaction.