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Texoma Medical Center (TMC) is pleased to announce the opening of the region’s first and only hybrid cardiac catheterization lab. The hybrid lab is a $11.8M investment by TMC aimed at continuing to offer advanced structural heart and vascular disease care to those living in and around the Texoma region.

Equipped with advanced imaging and technology, the hybrid lab is designed to offer the capabilities of a traditional operating room with those of an image-guided interventional suite. TMC will now be able to ensure timely minimally invasive interventions with a reduced need for patient transfer to the OR should it be determined that a patient requires more advanced surgical care. Flexibility of the hybrid lab also contributes to patient safety by lessening exposure to anesthesia and radiation.

The hybrid lab allows TMC’s accomplished multi-disciplinary group of providers, and the staff that support them, to expand the capabilities of procedures that may be performed. Advanced imaging capabilities allow vascular surgeons at TMC to perform advanced thoracic endovascular and abdominal aorta endovascular procedures. And TMC will be expanding cardiac care with the addition of electrophysiology which is the treatment of the heart’s electrical system and involves diagnosing abnormal heart rhythms known as arrhythmia.

The hybrid lab is an addition to TMC’s two existing cardiac catheterization rooms that have been in use since the hospital moved to its current location in 2009, as well as a $3.5 million Neuro-Interventional suite with biplane angiography that TMC opened in 2017.