On Tuesday 9 April, in the CX Non-Cardiovascular Adavanced Imaging Day session, Roger Greenhalgh, London, UK, introduced the speakers from the respective companies who spoke about building a hybrid operating room, the financial implications of doing so, and laser-guided hybrid suites.
In the afternoon session, chaired by John Primrose, president of the association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, showed delegates on the following topics:
- Florian Gebhard, Ulm, Germany—Making the hybrid operating room cost effective: the multidisciplinary hybrid operating room, and improving trauma care
- Manuel Ritter, Mannheirn, Germany— Radiation safety: management of dose in the hybrid operating room, and improvement of PCNL by Uro-Dyna computed tomography (CT)
- Helmut Isringhaus, Völkinghaus, Germany—Minimally-invasive resection of small lung nodules guided by fluoroscopy
- Javier Fandino, Aarau, Switzerland—Concept and applications of the hybrid operating room in cerebrovascular surgery
- Dogu Teber, Heidelberg, Germany—Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy in kidney cancer guided by Dyna CT/laparoscopy image diffusion
- Marco van Strijen, Nieuwegien, The Netherlands,—Advanced image guidance in renal tumour ablations
- Beat Müller, Heidelberg, Germany—Image-guided partial liver resection in hepatocellular carcinoma
- Alexander Schramm, Ulm, Germany—First experience of maxillofacial surgery in a hybrid operating room
- Chrisitan Raftopoulos, Brussels, Belgium—The hybrid operating room for neurosurgery
- Hicham Kobeiter, Créteil, France—Advanced image guidance for transcatheter arterial tumour embolisation using EmboGuide