Work has begun on a new £6 million hybrid endovascular theatre suite at Manchester Royal Infirmary, due for completion this April.
The Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust says the suite will ‘transform the treatment’ of patients undergoing minimally invasive cardiovascular procedures, while making the MRI the UK’s first hospital equipped with two adjacent fully hybrid theatres utilising a robotic imaging system with fully flexible theatre table.
Technology will include high definition imaging with two robotic Siemens Artis zeego C-arms, plus facilities for traditional surgery. The hybrid suite will ‘provide better facilities where existing techniques can be performed more efficiently and safely, and enable new, innovative techniques and treatments not currently possible’. Maquet will be both building, and supplying equipment including operating tables, lighting, and celling service units – all controlled by its TEGRIS OR integration system – for the suite’s two new endovascular theatres and an adjoining ‘conventional’ theatre.
Designed by the Trust and AFL Architects, the theatres will also incorporate Maquet’s VARIOP modular walling system – designed for flexibility in room layout, rapid construction, and simpler, faster, integration of services.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of AFL Architects
