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Heart & Vascular Health | Innovation | CONTINUED
Meanwhile, down the road a bit
The new Wilmington Cardiology Care unit is one of two major additions to Christiana Care’s nationally respected Heart & Vascular program.
In late June, the health center celebrated opening a state-of-the-art hybrid operating room (OR), also known as a structural heart lab, in the Gerret and Tatiana Copeland Heart & Vascular Interventional Suite at Christiana Hospital.
The bright, dynamic, state-of-the-art suite is for innovative procedures targeting conditions affecting the heart’s structures — the valves, heart chambers and related parts.
“We’ll do all advanced cardiac procedures here for patients when traditional surgery is too risky or not an option — transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), for example, and other device placements and cardiac interventions,” said Wasif Qureshi, M.D., mWedical director, Structural Heart Diseases.
ith the hybrid OR, Christiana Care
is the only health system in Delaware offering a comprehensive structural heart disease program, taking care
to the next level for improved patient experiences and outcomes.
“When patients come in for evaluation, they can have a same-day experience,” Dr. Qureshi said. “Previously, we had to schedule people on separate days for catheterization and surgery. Now we can get patients evaluated and treated in a more timely manner — for some heart and vascular problems, we can do all procedures in the same suite.”
Dr. Qureshi said the space also can be used for open heart surgery, which improves patient experience and patient outcomes.
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From 500 in six years to 200 in one year
Christiana Care is the leading regional provider of structural heart disease interventions — since the program started in 2012, the Center for Heart & Vascular Health surgeons performed more than 500 TAVR procedures as of 2018. The hybrid OR will further boost the capacity to an estimated 200 procedures per year.
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Solid Gold
Christiana Hospital’s 1,000-square- foot Hybrid OR is a gold-standard in structural heart care intervention.
Multiple medical teams have the room to work together.
Patients stay in one area, rather than moving from space to space for different treatment processes, improving patient experience and reducing risk of infection.
Wasif Qureshi, M.D.
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