The Hemodynamics Unit has already been launched at the Molina Orosa Hospital, with equipment that responds to one of the most demanded health demands by the citizens of Lanzarote. The head of cardiology at Molina Orosa, Oscar Morera assures that “the new facilities improve healthcare and guarantee direct and immediate care to users of Lanzarote's healthcare system because it allows us to carry out interventional cardiology procedures that will avoid a large part of patient transfers to hospitals in Gran Canaria.”
An expert team that will perform 500 catheterizations and 120 pacemakers
The Hemodynamics unit will be attended by an expert team that has been trained and recycled at the Dr. Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria, made up of hemodynamic cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, nurses and auxiliary nursing care technicians TCAE.
The forecast is that the new Cardiac Interventionism unit will host an "average of between four and five" patients daily and will perform approximately between "460 and 500 cardiac catheterizations" diagnostic and/or therapeutic throughout the year. Regarding the placement of pacemakers, they calculate that an annual average of between "100 and 120 definitive implants" will be carried out.
The pathologies that will be treated
The Hemodynamic Cardiology Unit will treat diseases of the coronary arteries and heart valves. It is planned to perform between "four and five interventions" of therapeutic catheterization, procedures through the skin by intravascular route that allow treating some heart diseases and other injuries without surgery and diagnostic catheterizations. While the days dedicated to cardiac stimulation (pacemakers) can carry out up to three interventions for which there is a team of four implanting cardiologists.
The room will also allow electrophysiology studies to be carried out at Molina Orosa, which will be carried out by a specialist from the Dr. Negrín Hospital who will travel to Lanzarote, thus avoiding the transfer of patients to the Gran Canaria Hospital.
