In a specially-designed suite integrating advanced angiography equipment (A
dvantix, GE, Milwaukee) and standard operating room (OR) facilities, 562 in
terventions were performed in the course of 3 years. Of these, 83 were card
iac operations, 62 radiologic-guided cardiac interventions and 93 cardiac a
ngiographies. The introduction of angiography into the OR allowed hybrid pr
ocedures, combining surgical and interventional coronary revascularisation.
Animal studies were performed in the same suite, developing minimally-inva
sive procedures, as well as robotic surgery. Future cardiac suites will pro
bably contain equipment for short-bore fast-pulse sequence MRI and robots.