Mobile Cath Labs

We’re thrilled to announce we’ve recently rolled out the first Mobile GE IGS530 Mobile Cath Lab in the industry. We are always upgrading our systems to provide the newest technology to our customers. This mobile cath lab was recently delivered to a valued repeat customer in Missouri and is being used to support their CV program while the hospital is undergoing renovations. Great work by our team on the delivery and installation of this system!

Louisiana’s Mercy Regional Medical Center serves more than 97,000 patients annually and is continually expanding. The 109-bed acute care hospital was formed in April 2010, merging Villa Platte Medical Center and Acadian Medical Center – located in Ville Platte and Eunice, LA, respectively.

As the only safety-net hospital in Monterey County (1 of 15 in California), Natividad Medical Center serves more than 135,000 patients every year. The 172-bed acute carehospital is also home to the Central Coast’s only inpatient and outpatient acute rehabilitation program and is owned and operated by the county.

When the decision is made to utilize temporary Mobile Cath Labs some of the most important factors to consider are patient safety and the route the patient will take through the hospital and out to the mobile lab. Unlike with other mobile labs, such as Mobile MRI and Mobile CT labs, where the patients can sometimes walk out or be pushed out to the mobile lab in wheelchair, patients going into the cath lab are not ambulatory and are usually taken out Mobile Cath Labs on a patient bed or a stretcher. Knowing this we always recommend trying to locate the mobile cath lab as close to the hospital as possible so as to have the shortest route to get the patient out to the mobile lab.MOBILE DOCKSome hospitals have a dedicated, covered, elevated mobile dock area where patients can be wheeled directly into the mobile lab without having to utilize the hydraulic patient lift on the mobile lab. The pop-out side extensions on Mobile Cath Labs are larger than with other mobile labs, which at time can pose a challenge with some dock-area setups, but when available the elevated docks are an ideal location because the route to the mobile has already been pre-planned and designed with patient safety in mind.

When it comes to interim cath labs, safety and reliability are everything. How can you make sure you’re making the right choices for your program and for your patient’s safety? Make sure you go digital, with a digital flat panel detector x-ray imaging system.Temporary or “mobile” cath labs aren’t something that everyone is familiar with, so when someone is faced with needing to find Mobile Cath Labs service provider they might do a quick google search, make a few calls, and assume that all the providers in the industry are reputable companies with good interventional x-ray equipment.The ProblemThe reality is, there are only a few companies that offer Mobile Cath Labs, and some are run on a shoe-string budget and ONLY offer older, obsolete Image Intensifier (I.I.) based systems. Why, you ask? Because that’s all they have and they aren’t able to offer anything newer. The fact of the matter is, these I.I. systems haven’t been manufactured since the early 2000’s, so today (2015), these systems are at a minimum 15 years old and possibly older. Besides being analog systems with poor image quality, parts are scarce and hard to come by, and being so old, they can be very hard to maintain to any reliable degree.Imagine you or your loved one having chest pains, going to the nearest hospital, and finding out that you have to have a cardiac cath or vascular procedure-not knowing that the procedure was being done on a 15-25 year old, obsolete cardiac cath x-ray system. This could very easily happen if you had gone to a hospital that decided to bring in Mobile Cath Labs with one of these older I.I. systems.

Tony Mullett is one of our long-time employees and a resident of Lapel, IN. Tony wears a number of hats here at MDI but he’s mainly in charge of making sure our Mobile Cath Labs have updated interior finishes and storage cabinetry. Tony is very involved in the community and he heard that the Lapel Stony Creek Fire Territory (https://www.lapelfd.com) had recently moved into a new Fire House but with the construction being over budget they weren’t able to afford to finish out the kitchen as planned. Tony approached the owners Greg and Bob and they agreed to help by donating the materials needed.