When the new Mills-Peninsula Medical Center opens, it will be the only hospital on the Peninsula with Stereotaxis, an advanced technology that navigates catheters inside the heart guided by two large magnets on either side of the patient. Using highly sophisticated imaging, the doctor actually guides the magnetic device from another room, effecting repairs to the heart remotely.
Stereotaxis, an advanced technology that navigates catheters inside the heart guided by two large magnets on either side of the patient.
This and other state-of-the-art technologies in the new hospital will offer even more hope for people with heart disease and irregular heart rhythms, according to Mills-Peninsula interventional cardiologist Stephen Pope, M.D.
“In 2008, in an independent study of outcomes analysis, Mills-Peninsula was ranked as one of the two top cath labs [operating suites for cardiovascular procedures] in California for outcomes in treatment of acute coronary events,” he said. “Our new hospital will have both a dedicated electrophysiology lab and a dedicated cardio intervention lab.”
There are also new “hybrid” cardiovascular suites.
Using these new suites, a bypass operation could be performed by a cardiac surgeon at the same time an angioplasty or stent procedure is done by the cardiologist.
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