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Dr. Stuart Silverman, with scissors, Radiology Chairman Steven Seltzer, at right, and Radiology staff celebrate the opening of the new Radiology recovery room. Beginning this week, patients undergoing Interventional Radiology (IR) procedures by the Cross-sectional Interventional Service (CIS) will be prepared for those procedures and recover from them in a brand new recovery room on L1. The room offers six bed bays and state-of-the-art comfort, privacy and safety, thanks to a team of BWHers and digital technology. Doctors, nurses and technologists in Radiology, aided by BWH Biomedical Engineering staff, started planning the room across from CT/MRI months ago in anticipation of the shrinking Film Library. Since the library’s hard-copy films of patient images were converted to digital files, hundreds of square feet of precious space were emptied. Radiology knew its patients needed that space. “We have a very busy IR service,” said Stuart Silverman, MD, who directs CIS and Abdominal Imaging and Intervention. Before he cut the ribbon at the room’s opening ceremony Monday, Silverman said CIS, which began 16 years ago, has become “a full-blown service unto itself.” Up to 20 patients a day—needing liver biopsies, paracentesis, tumor ablations or myelograms—will spend between 30 minutes and six hours in the room, said Shaun Golden, interim nurse manager for Radiology. Golden helped design the room, where two nurses and a patient care assistant will care for patients monitored with the latest technology. That technology, according to CIS nurse Heather Macaulay, will scale up nicely when the number of beds doubles and the AMIGO (Advanced Multi-modality Imaged-Guided Operating room) project locates next door. Meanwhile, patients will enjoy comfort, not crowding in the new recovery room. They have heated blankets and individual flat-panel TV screens with speakers located on hand-held remote control devices. They have privacy as space between the beds, separated by curtains, affords private conversations. From left, Matt Quin, assistant nurse manager of Radiology, Ray Weatherby, chief technologist, CT, Shaun Golden, nurse manager of Radiology and Interventional Radiology nurse Heather Macaulay celebrate the Recovery Room opening.
Beginning this week, patients undergoing Interventional Radiology (IR) procedures by the Cross-sectional Interventional Service (CIS) will be prepared for those procedures and recover from them in a brand new recovery room on L1. The room offers six bed bays and state-of-the-art comfort, privacy and safety, thanks to a team of BWHers and digital technology.
Doctors, nurses and technologists in Radiology, aided by BWH Biomedical Engineering staff, started planning the room across from CT/MRI months ago in anticipation of the shrinking Film Library. Since the library’s hard-copy films of patient images were converted to digital files, hundreds of square feet of precious space were emptied. Radiology knew its patients needed that space.
“We have a very busy IR service,” said Stuart Silverman, MD, who directs CIS and Abdominal Imaging and Intervention. Before he cut the ribbon at the room’s opening ceremony Monday, Silverman said CIS, which began 16 years ago, has become “a full-blown service unto itself.”
Up to 20 patients a day—needing liver biopsies, paracentesis, tumor ablations or myelograms—will spend between 30 minutes and six hours in the room, said Shaun Golden, interim nurse manager for Radiology. Golden helped design the room, where two nurses and a patient care assistant will care for patients monitored with the latest technology. That technology, according to CIS nurse Heather Macaulay, will scale up nicely when the number of beds doubles and the AMIGO (Advanced Multi-modality Imaged-Guided Operating room) project locates next door.
Meanwhile, patients will enjoy comfort, not crowding in the new recovery room. They have heated blankets and individual flat-panel TV screens with speakers located on hand-held remote control devices. They have privacy as space between the beds, separated by curtains, affords private conversations.