TUSTIN, CA -- To offer hospitals more versatility and a seamless transition from endovascular imaging to surgical intervention on a single system, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. is partnering with surgical table manufacturer, MAQUET, to provide new solutions for Toshiba's Infinix™-i product line. The partnership combines the Infinix-i systems' unparalleled image quality and versatility with a complete range of innovative MAQUET table top options, which range from general surgery to radiology-specific.

The Toshiba/MAQUET hybrid operating room (OR) suite is the only hybrid solution to offer interchangeable table tops, optimizing asset utilization of these specialized OR suites. This no-compromise approach to hybrid OR configurations demonstrates Toshiba's philosophy to provide imaging systems that maximize the everyday utility of cardiovascular/interventional imaging systems.

Because ceiling mounted systems are typically best suited for a hybrid operating room setting, these table tops match perfectly with Toshiba's Infinix CC-i and Infinix VC-i systems.

"The Toshiba and MAQUET partnership provides physicians with a single system for imaging and surgical procedures, without compromising image quality or safety," explained Robert Micer, director, X-ray Vascular Business Unit, Toshiba. "Not only does this partnership help improve patient care and access, it offers better asset utilization for hospitals. By having a system in an operating room that can perform multiple procedures, hospitals can ensure that hybrid suite settings are utilized for more than just surgery. They can also be used for diagnostic and interventional imaging procedures, as well as hybrid procedures that involve surgeons and interventionalists working together."

"Unlike catheterization suites, this hybrid operating suite by Toshiba and MAQUET is designed specifically around the cardiac surgeon, cardiac interventionalist and cardiac surgical patient, offering new advanced access and imaging in the operating room, without having to move patients," explained Dr. Mark E. Galantowicz, chief of cardiothoracic surgery, co-director of The Heart Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital, and associate professor of surgery at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

In addition to the versatility offered by the MAQUET table top options, physicians will continue to benefit from the Infinix VC-i and CC-i's ceiling-mounted C-arm ensuring head-to-toe and fingertip-to-fingertip coverage, dose reduction technologies, dynamic FPD capability and exceptional image quality.

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