title: How to build a cath-lab operating room.
abstract: Recent developments in cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology have led to the installation of integrated operating rooms that allow both surgical and endovascular procedures. These units offer surgical as well as angiographic equipment and personnel and therefore require special planning and design. A variety of integrated procedures can be performed. Hybrid coronary revascularization, percutaneous valve repair, and aortic stent-graft placement are current developments that are ideally performed in a cath-lab operating room. This review by an international working group of cardiac surgeons and cardiologists outlines the challenges involved with implementation of an integrated operating suite and suggests general planning and construction guidelines.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria. johannes.o.bonatti@i-med.ac.at
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bonatti
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vassiliades
authors.forename: Wiley
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Nifong
authors.forename: Heinz
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jakob
authors.forename: Raimund
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Erbel
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fosse
authors.forename: Kalervo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Werkkala
authors.forename: Zeljko
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sutlic
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bartel
authors.forename: Guy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Friedrich
authors.forename: Bob
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kiaii
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D006801:Humans; D007374:Interior Design and Furnishings; D009873:Operating Rooms / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015641:Radiography, Interventional