A New Era With Hybrid Operating Systems

What is a hybrid operating system? The word “hybrid” originally referred to the result of interbreeding between two animals or plants of different species, but it has more recently been used to mean the combination of two different methods to achieve higher performance, as represented by hybrid cars. The hybrid operating room discussed in this paper can be described simply as the combination of an angiographic imaging system and an operating table installed in an operating theatre room, or alternatively, as the use of an operating table instead of a catheterization table in an angiography room (Fig.1).