MIOT hospital gets a new biplane cathlab

The machine reduces radiation exposure of the patient by 50%, says hospital

A biplane cathlab commissioned at MIOT International has reduced treatment time and improves patient outcome, say doctors. The machine comes with cone beam CT, 3D echo and software intelligence and halved the amount of radiation a patient is exposed to besides the amount of contrast dye administered. K. Jaishankar, director of cardiology, said while in the past patients requiring angiography were given as much as 60-70 ml of contrast dye to identify blood vessels, the machine’s precision reduced it to just 20-25 ml. The machine also protects the kidneys from being exposed to contrast, he said. “Many times patients come to us with a heart attack and we do not know their kidney function. This is where the machine helps,” he said.