Clinical Facilities

OHSU Hospital

	New interventional room at OHSU Hospital with Siemens Axiom Artis system.

The Dotter Interventional Institute is made up of the clinical facilities in OHSU and Veterans Hospitals and the Charles Dotter Memorial Laboratory. Presently, the Dotter Interventional Institute occupies approximately 5,268 square feet in the "A" wing of the 11th floor of Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital. Located within this space are the following four interventional laboratories:

• Philips Integris BV 5000, Biplane Neuro and Vascular System, placed into service in September 1999
• OEC Series 9600 Mobile Digital Imaging system, placed into service in February 1999
• Siemens Axiom Artis, installed with a flat panel image intensifier digital imaging system with neuro 3-D capability. Placed into service in September 2004.
• Siemens Axiom Artis digital imaging system with 3-D capability. Placed into service in July 2004.

A video network was first installed in 1993 and has been continually updated, enabling transmission of real-time procedures to television. This is accomplished through monitors located in remote viewing sites both within the hospital and research laboratory. This resource capability is particularly useful in training and evaluating staff.

In addition to the above interventional labs, faculty and administrative offices, a conference room, a neurointerventional reading area, a two-bed patient holding room, supply/equipment storage, a scrub room, and laser printer room are located in this space. In 1995, a 14-bed interventional recovery unit was built on the 11th floor "C" wing, an area adjacent to the interventional radiology suites. The interventional recovery unit is shared with cardiology and diagnostic radiology.

Future facility expansion/remodeling is planned, including the addition of a second neuro biplane interventional radiology suite. Also the standard II Siemens Axiom Artis suite will be updated to meet operating room standards for AAA stent graft cases. Other planes include: adding to the number of interventional recovery beds to accommodate expansion.

Veterans Affairs Medical Center Hospital

	New interventional O.R. - compatible room in the V.A. Hospital with Siemens Multistar system.

At the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the Institute staff provides angiographic and interventional services in the clinical facilities located within the Department of Diagnostic Radiology. There are two Siemens Multistar angiographic laboratories with digital imaging, road mapping and flouro fade capabilities, and one with a Puck film changer. The first Siemens Multistar system is ceiling-mounted and was placed into service in July 1998. The second Multistar system is a pedestal table placed into service in November 1998, installed within an O.R.-compatible environment. In addition to the procedure suites, there also is faculty office space, a conference room, a dedicated darkroom, a technologist’s lounge and storage area.