A hybrid operating room is a surgical theatre that is equipped with advanced medical imaging devices such as fixed c arms ct scanners or mri scanners.
Hybrid operating room floor plan.
These imaging devices enable minimally invasive surgery.
Code requires a traditional operating room to have a minimum clear floor area of 400 square feet.
As it holds an imaging modality the radiology department could take the lead responsibility for the room for expertise in handling technical maintenance and connectivity reasons.
A hybrid or is required to be 1 5x as large with a minimum clear floor area of 600 square feet.
Although some facilities have the luxury of new construction to implement a hybrid or many must convert an existing interventional or or space into a hybrid or.
With the combination of surgical facilities and imaging systems in one room hybrid ors can be used for traditional open surgeries image guided surgeries or a combination of procedure types offering.
Floor mounted c arm in the right surgical monitor and table in the middle and anesthesia machine in the deep left.
Because hybrid ors require additional space for equipment and to provide flexibility for the types of procedures performed these rooms typically.
Minimally invasive surgery is intended to be less traumatic for the patient and minimize incisions on the patient and perform surgery procedure through one or several small cuts.