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One facility's OR Story

by Joanna Padovano, Reporter | March 21, 2012
From the March 2012 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine

In any given OR suite at the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York, there are TRUMPF, KLM or Steris lights; Leica or Zeiss microscopes; and Skytron, STERIS, Osi, MAQUET, Berchtold or Jackson tables, depending on the type of procedure being performed.

“Our preference is to purchase or lease new equipment, but we are open to looking at refurbished equipment as it can be cost effective if the product meets our high clinical standards,” says Maureen Fitzpatrick, the hospital’s vice president of perioperative services.

“We will look at key factors including the age of the equipment, its current condition and its history of repairs. We also work closely with Clinical Engineering and our department chairs to forecast what our new OR equipment needs will be.”

At the facility there is a designated Department of Biomedical Engineering worker who periodically evaluates OR equipment in order to determine whether or not repairs are necessary. If so, the equipment is either fixed by a third-party vendor or the OEM, depending on the existence of a service contract.

NYU Langone Medical Center features a Robotic Surgery Center, which provides robot-assisted minimally- invasive procedures in the areas of gynecology and urology, as well as general and cardiothoracic surgery. The center uses the da Vinci Si Surgical System, considered the most sophisticated robotic surgical technology to date.

In addition to the Robotic Surgery Center, the state-of-the-art facility offers a hybrid operating room, introduced last year. “The [hybrid] OR, located on the sixth floor of Tisch Hospital at NYU Langone, is comprised of a large operating room, control room, stationary X-ray technology, high-tech surgical table, three large high-definition plasma monitors, video cameras and three computer systems,” says Zaida I. Jacoby, the hospital’s director of perioperative services and director of the surgical technology program. “Physicians in the hybrid operating room can leverage its built-in X-ray imaging and video integrated technology for minimally invasive surgical procedures on organs, arteries and veins. These high-powered images of the surgical field are visible in 3-D on high-definition plasma monitors.”

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