The Hybrid Operating Room

Lehigh Valley Health Network has completed the first "hybrid operating room" in the Lehigh Valley and one of the largest and most advanced in the country.

What is a "hybrid operating room?"  As you know, a "hybrid" is a thing that is made by combining two different elements.  A hybrid operating room combines the radiographic (x-ray) equipment of a cardiac catheterization laboratory with the size, equipment, sterility, and safety of an operating room.  This allows our team of interventional cardiologists and heart surgeons to perform the new trans-catheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures.

Below are pictures of our new hybrid operating room:

The Hybrid Operating Room at Lehigh Valley Health Network, Cedar Crest Campus

View from the Computer Control Room