The new area of ​​minimally invasive interventions at Hospital Trueta will come into service on April 3

The Trueta de Girona Hospital will inaugurate a new area on April 3 that will allow minimally invasive interventions guided by radiology, without the need to enter the operating room.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
24 March 2023 Friday 08:42
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The new area of ​​minimally invasive interventions at Hospital Trueta will come into service on April 3

The Trueta de Girona Hospital will inaugurate a new area on April 3 that will allow minimally invasive interventions guided by radiology, without the need to enter the operating room. The facilities have involved an investment of 7.2 million euros.

The new space is located on the ground floor of the building, which has undergone a comprehensive reform worth 4 million euros. The equipment, with the latest technology, has cost three million more.

This area has three rooms and will increase activity by 50%. One of the rooms will be used for interventional radiology; another to neurological interventions and the third to vascular procedures. The space will also allow for cardiac procedures.

Programmed interventions such as nephrostomy, treatment of liver tumors, repair of hemodialysis arteriovenous fistulas, transcatheter aortic valve implantation, etc., can be performed in this new facility.

Also urgent procedures such as acute bleeding embolizations, vascular obstruction treatments, arterial aneurysms and mechanical thrombectomies in acute cerebral infarcts, among others.

Apart from these three rooms, there will also be a large patient preparation and recovery area with 8 care points and two isolation boxes. In total, the new space will occupy 720 square meters.

The Minister of Health, Manel Balcells, who attended the hospital this morning to inaugurate the space, pointed out that this investment "does not blur" the process of articulating the new Trueta, which will be built next to the Santa Caterina de Salt hospital, in about land to the south of the urban area, between Salt and Girona.

The new hospital is in a participatory process phase, in which some 500 people have participated. "The new Trueta goes ahead and while it is not built, we must have the current hospital well equipped," he said.