Heart Month is a pivotal time to raise awareness and funds to beat heart disease in Canada. You can help the University Hospital Foundation save lives by donating today.
Mandy Rouselle
Jenna Donovan
Bassit Nawaz
Inside the University of Alberta Hospital’s Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute is a room built for the most delicate, risky cases.
The Cardiac Hybrid Operating Room is where cardiologists and cardiac surgeons work side by side at the same time, on the same patient. At the centre of the room is the C-arm, an advanced interventional imaging system that moves around the patient to deliver real-time, multi-angle views of the heart and blood vessels. Care teams can start with the most minimally invasive procedures, while being fully prepared for whatever comes next. Less invasive procedures mean less trauma, fewer complications and faster recovery times. Hybrid procedures have increased by nearly 45% in the last four years, and the technology that makes this room so important is starting to wear out.
Your support this month will help fund critical upgrades like the following improvements to the Cardiac Hybrid Operating Room:
- A redesigned layout
- Enhanced imaging support
- Improved surgical lighting
- Additional communication systems
- A new CT Scanner
With these upgrades, the Maz can grow from 400 hybrid cases per year to as many as 1,500.
Heart Month at the University Hospital Foundation is presented by Freson Bros.
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We feel obligated to be a leader in the community and we don’t expect anything back. If we can support the level of cardiac care that people receive, then I think we’ve completed that part of our mission.
Doug Lovsin, President of Freson Bros. 
Did you know
Some of the sickest of the sick cardiac patients from across northern Alberta, western Canada and the Territories come to the Maz for a level of care they cannot find anywhere else.
The Maz by the numbers
2
pediatric open-heart surgeries per day
2,000+
adult and pediatric open-heart surgeries annually
85+
adult transplants, and 13 pediatric transplants annually
7,500
inpatient admissions annually
56,500
outpatient visits annually
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