Volume 10 - Issue 9 - September, 2002
Feature
06/19/2008
David Joffe, MD, FACC
Hospitals are continually trying to improve patient satisfaction levels by offering the most advanced clinical practices. Ideally, these practices are executed through creative programs that result in time saving for patients and hospital...
Hospitals are continually trying to improve patient satisfaction levels by offering the most advanced clinical practices. Ideally, these practices are executed through creative programs that result in time saving for patients and hospital...
Hospitals are continually trying...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Lowell F. Satler, MD; Martin B. Leon, MD
Use of eMedcon is focused around a facility-individualized website developed and hosted by Medcon. eMedcon software uploads angiographic and echo images for online access. Users might be referring physicians who wish to send images to...
Use of eMedcon is focused around a facility-individualized website developed and hosted by Medcon. eMedcon software uploads angiographic and echo images for online access. Users might be referring physicians who wish to send images to...
Use of eMedcon is focused around...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
The Cath Lab Digest Email Discussion Group
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We frequently give aspirin and Plavix to patients after they receive conscious sedation if we are proceeding to angioplasty after an angiogram. The patients...
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We frequently give aspirin and Plavix to patients after they receive conscious sedation if we are proceeding to angioplasty after an angiogram. The patients...
HAVE A SUGGESTION FOR A FUTURE...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Kathy Beaver, RN
Use of eMedcon is focused around a facility-individualized website developed and hosted by Medcon. eMedcon software uploads angiographic and echo images for online access. Users might be referring physicians who wish to send images to...
Use of eMedcon is focused around a facility-individualized website developed and hosted by Medcon. eMedcon software uploads angiographic and echo images for online access. Users might be referring physicians who wish to send images to...
Use of eMedcon is focused around...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Robert Petrocelli, MS, BS
When I was younger and training as a physicist, I learned a lot about laws of nature, the rules that guide the way things work. However, there was one important law that was never taught: the law of unintended consequences.
Understanding the...
When I was younger and training as a physicist, I learned a lot about laws of nature, the rules that guide the way things work. However, there was one important law that was never taught: the law of unintended consequences.
Understanding the...
When I was younger and training...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Why did you choose to work in the invasive cardiology field?
I love invasive cardiology because the work is never routine. It’s direct contact with the patients that depend on your skills and knowledge. I love the fact that interventional...
Why did you choose to work in the invasive cardiology field?
I love invasive cardiology because the work is never routine. It’s direct contact with the patients that depend on your skills and knowledge. I love the fact that interventional...
Why did you choose to work in...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
James B. Sherwood, MHA
Warning signs of a suffering cardiovascular program due to a lack of capacity include the following:
Occupancy of inpatient units, especially telemetry and intensive care units, is greater than 80% during non-peak seasons;
Emergency...
Warning signs of a suffering cardiovascular program due to a lack of capacity include the following:
Occupancy of inpatient units, especially telemetry and intensive care units, is greater than 80% during non-peak seasons;
Emergency...
Warning signs of a suffering...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Sandeep Khosla, MD, FACC, FSCAI
*Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago is a Level I Trauma Center and is a Teaching Institution for Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School. For in-depth discussion and case reviews, visit www.peripheralangioplasty.com
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*Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago is a Level I Trauma Center and is a Teaching Institution for Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School. For in-depth discussion and case reviews, visit www.peripheralangioplasty.com
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*Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Sue Apple, DNSc, RN
Washington Hospital Center has an annual case volume of approximately 15,000, and between four and five thousand are interventional procedures. There isn’t a toy or device we don’t use! Thus, I could easily discuss interventional cardiology,...
Washington Hospital Center has an annual case volume of approximately 15,000, and between four and five thousand are interventional procedures. There isn’t a toy or device we don’t use! Thus, I could easily discuss interventional cardiology,...
Washington Hospital Center has...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Elizabeth Harris, RN, MBA; Patricia Tyson, RN, MSA; Dan Ketter, BA; Susana Rangel, RN
More than ever, catheterization laboratory managers need access to comparative benchmark data in order to keep pace with the rapidly changing healthcare environment. The following article is the third in a series featuring just such benchmark...
More than ever, catheterization laboratory managers need access to comparative benchmark data in order to keep pace with the rapidly changing healthcare environment. The following article is the third in a series featuring just such benchmark...
More than ever, catheterization...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
