First AAA patient opens endovascular suite

At James Cook University Hospital are Cook Medical’s Kenny Boyd, Siemens Healthcare northern sales manager Neil Lincoln, radiographer Tracey Easton, nurse Claire Rooney, sister Sue Goodrum, radiologist Simon Milburn, sister Lorraine Matthews, patient Robert Walton and consultant interventional radiologist Richard Hartley.

James Cook University Hospital, part of the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has officially opened a new endovascular suite and unveiled a ceiling-mounted Artis zee from Siemens Healthcare.  To coincide with Vascular Awareness Week, the suite was opened by Robert Walton, the hospital’s first patient to have a stent fitted for an abdominal aortic aneurysm in 1998.

“The Artis zee is pivotal to our new endovascular suite,” said consultant interventional radiologist Richard Hartley. “It replaces an existing Siemens system that has always proved very reliable.  Now that we have an Artis zee within a theatre specification environment, we have expanded our services and can conduct hybrid procedures, safe in the knowledge that they are supported by excellent image quality.”

See the full report on page 40 of the May 2012 issue of RAD Magazine.