Placement of a Mobile Fluoroscopic System in an Obstetric Operating Room : A Pilot Study

The combination of advanced imaging and interventional capabilities in a full Operating Room (OR) is increasingly common in tertiary care centers. This combination is referred to as hybrid OR [1]. Integration of such facility has been described for endovascular treatments, especially in cardiovascular patients. These patients were also treated in an OR using C-arm fluoroscopy [2,3]. Performance of preventative trans-arterial embolization (TAE) in the obstetric setting has been described in a hybrid room, Interventional Radiology (IR) suite, regular and obstetric OR and in various combinations of these locations [4-9].