The Advanced Center for Interventional Pulmonary and Gastrointestinal Services at Northside Hospital Gwinnett opened earlier this year.
“It is another exciting day for the Gwinnett community and surrounding counties as Northside Gwinnett unveils the new Advanced Center for Interventional Pulmonary and Gastrointestinal Services, enabling patients to travel less and be seen sooner in our new pulmonary and gastroenterology suites,” Lisa Norton, the director of operations for Northside Gwinnett, said when the new unit opened in May.
“Endoscopy services, especially pulmonary/GI services, continue to be in high demand, and having additional facilities to address patients’ needs for these services timely is one of the many initiatives we are doing here at Northside Hospital Gwinnett.”
The new unit offers 15 pre-procedure and recovery bays and five procedure rooms, with the space to add two more.
The interventional pulmonary room includes an Ion bronchoscopy robot with the integrated Siemens Cios Spin, a mobile 3D conebeam computerized tomography, or CT, allowing for more precise accuracy for lung cancer detection with shorter procedure duration.
The interventional gastroenterology room includes an affixed Omega fluoroscopy system and ERBEJET. These additions provide efficiency and better precision to the latest advanced GI techniques offered at Northside Gwinnett such as third-space procedures known as endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) and peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM), which treat such conditions as GI cancers, gastroparesis and achalasia.
Take a tour of the new unit and learn more about all it has to offer our patients.
Learn more about endoscopy services at Northside.
