Volume 10 - Issue 1 - January, 2002
Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
Hug a cardiovascular professional! The week of Valentine™s Day is officially designated as a time to celebrate the contributions cardiovascular professionals make each day to the health and well-being of our society. If your lab normally...
Hug a cardiovascular professional! The week of Valentine™s Day is officially designated as a time to celebrate the contributions cardiovascular professionals make each day to the health and well-being of our society. If your lab normally...
Hug a cardiovascular...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
SICP Section
06/19/2008
Georgann Bruski, RT(R), CRT, ARRT
Held at the Wyndham Palace Hotel March 3-5, the conference is co-sponsored by the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Alliance of Cardiovascular Professionals (ACVP). These two groups are pairing up with for the third year to...
Held at the Wyndham Palace Hotel March 3-5, the conference is co-sponsored by the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Alliance of Cardiovascular Professionals (ACVP). These two groups are pairing up with for the third year to...
Held at the Wyndham Palace Hotel...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Borgess Hospital, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Borgess Hospital, Kalamazoo, Michigan...
Why did you choose to work in the invasive cardiology field?
After I came back from Vietnam in 1969, I was angry at our American society with its attitude and behavior towards myself and other returning veterans. I bought a Harley-Davidson...
Why did you choose to work in the invasive cardiology field?
After I came back from Vietnam in 1969, I was angry at our American society with its attitude and behavior towards myself and other returning veterans. I bought a Harley-Davidson...
Why did you choose to work in...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
Kim Carwile, RT; Whitney Ruggieri, RN
What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members?
Our cath lab currently has three patient procedure rooms and a five-bay prep/recovery area. Each lab is equipped to perform cardiac catheterizations and interventions....
What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members?
Our cath lab currently has three patient procedure rooms and a five-bay prep/recovery area. Each lab is equipped to perform cardiac catheterizations and interventions....
What is the size of your cath...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Sridhar Sampath Kumar, MD; V.S. Srinivas, MBBS; Abdissa Negassa, PhD; E. Scott Monrad, MD
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
V.S. Srinivas, MBBS; Sridhar Sampath Kumar, MD; Abdissa Negassa, PhD; E. Scott Monrad, MD
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
V. Lanier Hall, RT(R), BS
Released in 2004, this important report, the ACCF/AHA/HRS/ SCAI Clinical Competence Statement on Physician Knowledge to Optimize Patient Safety and Image Quality in Fluoroscopically Guided Invasive Cardiovascular Procedures, A Report of the...
Released in 2004, this important report, the ACCF/AHA/HRS/ SCAI Clinical Competence Statement on Physician Knowledge to Optimize Patient Safety and Image Quality in Fluoroscopically Guided Invasive Cardiovascular Procedures, A Report of the...
Released in 2004, this important...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
Bernadette Longo, PhD
For patients requiring percutaneous vascular access procedures, the event is seldom limited to a single occurrence. Frequently, after the procedural catheter is removed and the arteriotomy closed, the event is considered over and done that...
For patients requiring percutaneous vascular access procedures, the event is seldom limited to a single occurrence. Frequently, after the procedural catheter is removed and the arteriotomy closed, the event is considered over and done that...
For patients requiring...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Susan Heilman; John Rader; Jennifer Williams
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
Habib Samady, MD; Michael C. McDaniel, MD
By significantly reducing restenosis rates, drug-eluting stents (DES) have allowed interventional cardiologists to approach longer and more complex lesions, as well as multi-vessel disease patients. This dramatic reduction in restenosis has...
By significantly reducing restenosis rates, drug-eluting stents (DES) have allowed interventional cardiologists to approach longer and more complex lesions, as well as multi-vessel disease patients. This dramatic reduction in restenosis has...
By significantly reducing...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
A sampling of recent conclusions from researchers around the world.
Chondroitin sulfate and gelatin (CSG) coating appears to be a promising medium for localized drug delivery. Paclitaxel polymer-coated stents reduce neointima formation but...
A sampling of recent conclusions from researchers around the world.
Chondroitin sulfate and gelatin (CSG) coating appears to be a promising medium for localized drug delivery. Paclitaxel polymer-coated stents reduce neointima formation but...
A sampling of recent conclusions...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
Kathy Acquaviva, RCIS, RT(R)
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Industry Insider
06/19/2008
Terumo Announces the Release of its Pinnacle R/O II
Introducer Sheath with Radiopaque Marker
Terumo Medical Corporation has just released its newest vascular access product: the Pinnacle R/O II Introducer Sheath with Radiopaque Marker.
The...
Terumo Announces the Release of its Pinnacle R/O II
Introducer Sheath with Radiopaque Marker
Terumo Medical Corporation has just released its newest vascular access product: the Pinnacle R/O II Introducer Sheath with Radiopaque Marker.
The...
Terumo Announces the Release of...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
The buzz in the trenches is coated stents, no doubt. This month, we offer a quick summary, and list conclusions from some of the published research over the past few months.
The more immediate future, however, holds another question: is...
The buzz in the trenches is coated stents, no doubt. This month, we offer a quick summary, and list conclusions from some of the published research over the past few months.
The more immediate future, however, holds another question: is...
The buzz in the trenches is...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Spotlight
06/19/2008
Stan Krawczyk, Jr., CVT-CST
What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members?
Munson Medical Center is located in beautiful Traverse City, Michigan. The cardiac cath lab consists of two cardiac cath labs, one mobile cath lab and...
What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members?
Munson Medical Center is located in beautiful Traverse City, Michigan. The cardiac cath lab consists of two cardiac cath labs, one mobile cath lab and...
What is the size of your cath...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Daniel I. Simon, MD, FACC, FAHA
How are the cath labs at Brigham and Women™s Hospital structured?
Within our Cardiovascular Interventional and Diagnostic Center (CDIC), we have 5 cath labs, performing 2000 interventional procedures and about 6500 total procedures per year....
How are the cath labs at Brigham and Women™s Hospital structured?
Within our Cardiovascular Interventional and Diagnostic Center (CDIC), we have 5 cath labs, performing 2000 interventional procedures and about 6500 total procedures per year....
How are the cath labs at...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Barbara Blanchard, RN, MSN, CCRN, RCIS; Roseann Ruggiero, AS, RCIS
Many challenges exist in the provision of specialty healthcare today. Recruiting and retaining highly experienced cardiovascular and specialty healthcare professionals (primarily RNs and cardiovascular technologists) has become a high...
Many challenges exist in the provision of specialty healthcare today. Recruiting and retaining highly experienced cardiovascular and specialty healthcare professionals (primarily RNs and cardiovascular technologists) has become a high...
Many challenges exist in the...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Jeff Davis is the program coordinator for the Invasive Cardiovascular Technology program at Edison Community College in Fort Myers, Florida. He is also the SICP representative to the Joint Review Committee on Education in Cardiovascular...
Jeff Davis is the program coordinator for the Invasive Cardiovascular Technology program at Edison Community College in Fort Myers, Florida. He is also the SICP representative to the Joint Review Committee on Education in Cardiovascular...
Jeff Davis is the program...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
The Process of Developing Competencies for Cath Lab Skills is highly relevant from the notion of a need for practice standards, staff training and staff certification. However, though it is intriguing to think of a workplace where the docs...
The Process of Developing Competencies for Cath Lab Skills is highly relevant from the notion of a need for practice standards, staff training and staff certification. However, though it is intriguing to think of a workplace where the docs...
The Process of Developing...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
¦an American by my own choice, not by chance.
Ken Gorski's November 2001 editorial Where were you? What were you doing? Thoughts on September 11, 2001 was a very moving description of his experiences during several of the events that have...
¦an American by my own choice, not by chance.
Ken Gorski's November 2001 editorial Where were you? What were you doing? Thoughts on September 11, 2001 was a very moving description of his experiences during several of the events that have...
¦an American by my own choice,...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
¦an American by my own choice, not by chance.
Ken Gorski's November 2001 editorial Where were you? What were you doing? Thoughts on September 11, 2001 was a very moving description of his experiences during several of the events that have...
¦an American by my own choice, not by chance.
Ken Gorski's November 2001 editorial Where were you? What were you doing? Thoughts on September 11, 2001 was a very moving description of his experiences during several of the events that have...
¦an American by my own choice,...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
