Two new operating theatres at the Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre at Burnley General Hospital feature Karl Storz’s OR1 NEO integrated theatre equipment as part of a £1.3 m investment to further consolidate the hospital’s reputation as one of north-west England’s leading laparoscopic gynaecological surgery centres.
The hospital was recently accredited as an advanced centre for treating endometriosis. The new theatres will enable four laparoscopic surgeons to work with the hospital’s oncology unit to perform many of what would have once been open-surgery hysterectomies, laparoscopically.
The OR1 NEO theatres offer connectivity with hospital ICT systems, giving improved audio-visual communication for teleconferencing, teaching, or telesurgery. Karl Storz also supplied laparoscopic training equipment to help with the development of trainee surgeons.
The company was awarded the contract by East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust to install the two theatres, and a further one at Blackburn – which is due for completion later in the year – after demonstrating its IMAGE1 SPIES system during the tender process. A key component of the OR1 NEO theatre, this system ‘optimises the surgeon’s view of challenging anatomical areas during complex surgery’.
