Complex surgical treatments at the MedLife Hospital in Brașov, in the first hybrid mobile room in the centre of the country. The investment exceeds EUR 500,000

“Today, the less we assault the body, the more the patient handles the treatments. In this respect, minimum invasive technology has a key role. Due to the new generation equipment from the hybrid room, the surgeon can visualise the operated areas, in a very precise manner, and can verify in real time the effectiveness of his/her manoeuvres, without the need to resort to open surgery. Thus, the duration of the procedure is optimised, the intra- and post-surgery risks are diminished and the patient’s recovery is easier”, explained Dr. Viorel Rusu, Coordinator of theVascular Surgery Department of MedLife Hospital in Brașov.

What surgical procedures are performed in the hybrid room of the MedLife Hospital in Brașov?

Currently, the hybrid mobile room in Brașov is used especially for vascular surgery, but also for interventional cardiology and orthopaedics.

“In vascular surgery we are talking about difficult surgical procedures that require operating theatre conditions and the use of radiological materials. The hybrid room is the alternative to open and classic surgery, for the treatment of abdominal and thoracic aortic aneurysms, by applying stent-grafts by using small femoral approaches. At the same time, in the surgery for the saving of lower limbs, the hybrid room allows us to perform a bypass for one limb and, at the same time, dilatation and stent installing for an artery, upstream or downstream that bypass”, says physician Viorel Rusu.

The technology of the hybrid mobile room is also used in interventional cardiology for angiography, coronography, cardiac stimulators or stents implants, but also in orthopaedics and traumatology for the surgery of the knee, hip or for fractures.

Currently, MedLife owns the largest and more complex private hospital network in Romania, with a portfolio of 17 monodisciplinary and multidisciplinary hospitals where patients from the entire country have access to complete solutions, from outpatient medical services, imaging and laboratory to complex surgical procedures.

MedLife, the largest private medical services network in Romania, continues to show its appetite for innovation and technology, by commissioning a hybrid mobile room at the MedLife Hospital in Brașov. The inauguration of the new operating room targets the increase of performance in surgery and ensures patients’ access to complex surgical treatments in complete safety conditions. This is the only unit of its kind in Transylvania and one of the few existing in the entire country, being the result of an investment of over half a million Euro.

“In order to offer our patients the best care and customised treatments we rely on the expertise of good physicians, supplemented by top notch technology means. We strongly believe that the future of medicine is the adopting of the newest innovations, so the investments in the modernisation of the MedLife Hospital in Brașov by the inauguration of a hybrid mobile room, the first unit of this type in the centre of the country, align with the strategic direction of the MedLife Group. We are glad that patients now have access to complex interventions and treatments, at the same quality standards as top hospitals abroad”, declared Dorin Preda, Executive Manager of MedLife Group.
What does the hybrid mobile room consist of?

The hybrid room is a complete operating room with all the necessary equipment for surgery, a mobile 2D and 3D radiology equipment and a new generation image merging system. Thus, surgeons have the opportunity to perform, at the same time and in the same place, open and minimally invasive surgical actions, without needing to subject the patient to several consecutive surgical interventions.

More accurately, the hybrid mobile room is comprised of:

• hybrid C arm (C-arm) which offers high resolution radiological images regarding the state of arteries and veins from the human body;
• a mobile radiotransparent operation tablewith the possibility of sterile intraoperative command;
• an endovascular navigation system, which allows the merging of images obtained with the help of a CT with contrast substance and of intraoperative images obtained with the C-arm, thus forming 3D images of the patient’s organs.

The advantages of the hybrid mobile room are felt by the medical team, as well as by patients. On the one hand, the room technology allows the surgeon to optimise the duration of the procedures having real time access to all essential information for the surgical act, the C-arm offers a superior quality of the radiological image, while the large opening of the arm and the orbital movement up to 165 degrees ensure a good coverage of the operating field from any angle. On the other hand, for the patient, this can be translated in a reduced duration of the surgery, the diminishing of the radiation and contrast substance dose with the merging of the images, the reducing of post-surgery complications due to the precision of the procedures and implicitly, the decreasing of the hospitalisation time.

• The new hybrid mobile room from the MedLife Hospital in Brașov is the first in Transylvania and one of the few in the entire country.
• The hybrid mobile room has the most advanced equipment and technologies available at present, which allow the simultaneous performance, for the same patient, of open and minimally invasive surgical actions of vascular surgery and cardiology under radiological control.
• The commissioning of the hybrid room offers patients a superior quality surgical treatment, in maximum safety conditions and a quicker recovery.
• The inauguration of the hybrid room in the MedLife Hospital in Brașov is aligned with the strategic direction of the MedLife Group, who plans to continue to invest in innovation, technology and digitalisation to consolidate the largest private hospital network in Romania. 

17.11.2023 / News Editor, Andreea Dragan

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