Minister of Health launched a modern angiography workplace at UNB

University Hospital Bratislava continues to improve the healthcare provided to its patients and in the area of equipment recovery, the hospital has launched a modern angiography workplace. The workplace was opened by the Minister for Health Zuzana Dolinková together with the director of Bratislava University Hospital Alexander Mayer and dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University Juraj Payer.
Angiographer is an important imaging device in the diagnosis of vascular system diseases and allows a wide range of vascular and non-vascular interventional radiological procedures to be performed. The newly opened angiographic apparatus in the hospital in Kramáry will serve for minimal, endovascular treatment of a wide range of patients from all over Slovakia.
The new angiography site also required adequate premises. For this purpose, comprehensive building adjustments were made on the area of 437 m2 . Work on the site consisted of extensive demolition works and building modifications. Reinforcement of reinforced concrete structures by additional composite reinforcement was essential. A new air-technical unit has been installed for the newly created compartment that meets the demanding requirements for air cleanliness in the operating rooms. At the same time with the construction modifications was realized the assembly of the technology of two-plane angiography apparatus.
I am particularly pleased with every investment that goes to the reconstruction of medical facilities across Slovakia as well as the modernisation of the equipment of hospitals. The new angiographic workplace, which will reveal any vascular diseases, will be most recently appreciated by patients and doctors and other health professionals in Bratislava Kramar. Our priority is to increase the level of health care for the Slovak patient while at the same time improving the material and technical conditions in workplaces for healthcare professionals so that there are enough of them in the system. stated Minister of Health Zuzana Dolink.

The cost of construction works together with assembly is more than EUR 1 300 000, the angiographic apparatus alone cost more than EUR 1 000 000. The funds for this investment were fully provided by the Ministry of Health. –University Hospital Bratislava now has two modern angiographical workplaces. One at the Hospital Old Town and now this newly opened in a hospital in the Kramars. In the coming months we plan to open a third such workplace in Ružinov Hospital, where the device is already purchased and the reconstruction of the premises is currently implemented. I am very pleased that the UNB Radiological Clinic, which is one of our largest workplaces, is dynamically developing. The latest treatments are being introduced and the workplace is also being rebuilt thanks to the equipment, capable of introducing new medical procedures that are particularly beneficial to our patients, said Director UNB, Alexander Mayer.
Angiographer is part of the new JARIS interventional radiological care unit in UNB, which provides continuous acute and planned 24/7 final care for patients requiring complex endovascular procedures. This is particularly the case in patients with vascular diseases of the brain, such as cerebral aneurysms, vascular malformations, patients with acute stroke, embolism treatment of patients with liver cancer, endovascular treatment of patients with peripheral arterial disease of the lower limbs, abdominal aorta diseases, dialysis patients, renal transplant patients and other patients. In addition to this broad spectrum treatment intervention, angiography will also focus on new endovascular performances that will treat patients with an enlarged prostate or a patient with uterine fibroids. The angiographic apparatus includes cone beam CT technology, which is essential for navigation, at various intervention rates. Due to the location in Kramáry, the workplace will be able to use in the framework of UNB cooperation with the National Institute of Children's Diseases in the treatment of paediatric patients requiring various acute or planned endovascular performances.