Imaging in medicine has made enormous progress and is finding its way into the operating theater. This means that quality control can be carried out during the operation and any corrective measures can be taken immediately.

The ‘Inselspital’ in Bern, Switzerland has set its sights on positioning itself in good time in the competition for top medicine with its ambitious long-term planning project. In this context, a hybrid operating theater was realized in the first phase in the strategic open spaces of the Intensive Care Unit, the Emergency and the Surgery Centers (INO) of the ‘Inselspital’ complex in Bern.

The new theater was successfully realized opposite the existing cardiac surgery operating theaters.

The challenge lay both in the technical complexity and in the realization of the project under ongoing hospital operations, and the strong cost and deadline pressure. Such a combination of a conventional operating theater and a cardiac catheter laboratory is unique in Switzerland.

The realization of three further high-precision operating theaters in a second phase will complement the operating landscape of the INO building and crown the ‘Inselspital’ Bern as a pioneer in the field of “operating theaters with imaging facilities”.