The Heart Institute of Florida at North Shore Medical Center FMC Campus is proud to announce the expansion of its cardiac services with its new Valve Clinic and Hybrid Operating Suite. The 1,416 square feet hybrid operating suite allows for cardiovascular surgeons and cardiologists to work together to perform open and/or catheter-based procedures in the same operating room. This room compliments the new Valve Clinic, which is a destination for the treatment of advanced heart valve disease.The Valve Clinic will evaluate and treat complex heart valve disorders with a multidisciplinary approach, as interventional cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons work together to determine the best course of treatment for each patient, whether it is traditional surgery or less invasive techniques.
Some of the Clinic’s cardiac procedures will be performed in FMC Campus’s advanced cardiac Hybrid Operating Suite. The state-of-the-art operating room/catheterization lab houses all the equipment and monitoring devices necessary to perform a range of heart procedures, from minimally invasive catheterization to open-heart surgeries.
Specifically, FMC Campus will use the Allura Xper FD20 X-ray system from Philips. This fully digital system enables physicians to capture and view detailed 3D images of a patient’s cardiac vasculature, thereby facilitating faster and more accurate diagnosis and treatment of cardiac disease. Also important, the Allura system exposes patients to less radiation during the actual procedures than many other available systems.
