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The difference between a Cardiac Cath Lab and an IR Lab, an Interventional Radiology Lab- the
Cardiac Cath Lab is equipped to do imaging of the heart and coronaries around the heart, which is a
beating heart, there’s a different strength of radiation required in the cameras. The equipment in the
Cardiac Cath Labs are different than that in the IR Labs. So, we have balloon stints, catheters that are
only made to be used in the heart, in the vessels around the heart. The Interventional Radiology Lab, is
a lab that has what we call peripheral cameras, which called specialty procedure lab, because they
require special equipment, such as equipments that you can use for biopsy of the liver, of the kidneys,
putting a picc line in, putting a tube in the chest to empty fluid from around the lungs. So, these are
many different, unique, niche equipments that radiologists are actually very good at. And, only
radiologists can do that. That’s what they’re trained for, for many years. So, the Cardiac Cath
Laboratory don’t have these equipments, and also doesn’t have the skills of the Cath Lab staff to
support the radiologists in our lab. And, the same thing in the IR lab, if I go there to do a procedure,
they don’t have the equipments that I need to intervene on a heart. Their staff don’t have the expertise
that a Cardiac Cath Lab tech and nurse have. So, it’s actually a big difference.