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Volume 11 - Issue 11 - November, 2003

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Email Discussion Group
06/19/2008
To join the Email Discussion Group, please email cathlabdigest@hotmail.com Pictures in this month's Email Discussion Group are from St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco, CA. Topics Under Discussion: Incentives for...
To join the Email Discussion Group, please email cathlabdigest@hotmail.com Pictures in this month's Email Discussion Group are from St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco, CA. Topics Under Discussion: Incentives for...
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06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
SICP: CVT School Spotlight Valencia Community College: A New CVT Program to Meet High Demand
06/19/2008
Polly Keller, MBA, RT, RCIS
Why and how did you become an educator? In 1986, I began work as a respiratory therapist. I became an educator in 1989 when I was offered an adjunct teaching position from my alma mater, Youngstown State University (Ohio). I worked with the...
Why and how did you become an educator? In 1986, I began work as a respiratory therapist. I became an educator in 1989 when I was offered an adjunct teaching position from my alma mater, Youngstown State University (Ohio). I worked with the...
Why and how did you become an...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Email Discussion Group
06/19/2008
To join the Email Discussion Group, please email cathlabdigest@hotmail.com Pictures in this month's Email Discussion Group are from St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco, CA. Topics Under Discussion: Incentives for...
To join the Email Discussion Group, please email cathlabdigest@hotmail.com Pictures in this month's Email Discussion Group are from St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco, CA. Topics Under Discussion: Incentives for...
To join the Email Discussion...
06/19/2008
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Clinical and Industry News
06/19/2008
Heartlab Customers Now Can Electronically Harvest and Submit Data to the ACC-NCDR® Quality Measurement Program Heartlab, Inc. announced that its Encompass® Cardiac Network has achieved certified vendor status from the American College of...
Heartlab Customers Now Can Electronically Harvest and Submit Data to the ACC-NCDR® Quality Measurement Program Heartlab, Inc. announced that its Encompass® Cardiac Network has achieved certified vendor status from the American College of...
Heartlab Customers Now Can...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
The Letter from the Editor will return with the December 2003 issue. This month, we offer the thoughts of John Ruskin, Mark Twain and Hans Selye, who were very much ahead of their time in musing over life in the cath lab. "When love and...
The Letter from the Editor will return with the December 2003 issue. This month, we offer the thoughts of John Ruskin, Mark Twain and Hans Selye, who were very much ahead of their time in musing over life in the cath lab. "When love and...
The Letter from the Editor will...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Blind Comparison of Three Topical Hemostasis Pads
06/19/2008
Kuang-His Wu; Guangnan Deng
Hemostasis is a mechanism that restricts loss of blood from damaged blood vessels via the formation of clot. This mechanism is essential to maintain the closed blood-circulatory system. There are numerous hemostatic devices and agents in use...
Hemostasis is a mechanism that restricts loss of blood from damaged blood vessels via the formation of clot. This mechanism is essential to maintain the closed blood-circulatory system. There are numerous hemostatic devices and agents in use...
Hemostasis is a mechanism that...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
A Cordis-Sponsored Seminar on Reimbursement Makes an Impact
06/19/2008
Matthew R. Petkus, MBA, RT(R)(CV)
As a new manager in the cardiology department at Halifax Medical Center as of February 2003, I focused my initial efforts on understanding how my department operated, on both a clinical and financial basis. Since fiscal responsibility is...
As a new manager in the cardiology department at Halifax Medical Center as of February 2003, I focused my initial efforts on understanding how my department operated, on both a clinical and financial basis. Since fiscal responsibility is...
As a new manager in the...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
Letter to the Editor
06/19/2008
Renee S. Schleicher, CAE
American College of Cardiovascular Administrators Dear Editor: Your September 2003 Cath Lab Spotlight* highlighted the American College of Cardiovascular Administrators (ACCA) in its sidebar, The Following Questions Are Courtesy of the...
American College of Cardiovascular Administrators Dear Editor: Your September 2003 Cath Lab Spotlight* highlighted the American College of Cardiovascular Administrators (ACCA) in its sidebar, The Following Questions Are Courtesy of the...
American College of...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Letter to the Editor
06/19/2008
Renee S. Schleicher, CAE
American College of Cardiovascular Administrators Dear Editor: Your September 2003 Cath Lab Spotlight* highlighted the American College of Cardiovascular Administrators (ACCA) in its sidebar, The Following Questions Are Courtesy of the...
American College of Cardiovascular Administrators Dear Editor: Your September 2003 Cath Lab Spotlight* highlighted the American College of Cardiovascular Administrators (ACCA) in its sidebar, The Following Questions Are Courtesy of the...
American College of...
06/19/2008
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Cath Laughs
06/19/2008
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What do you think?
06/19/2008
Can you help answer these questions from your colleagues across the country? Protocol to change transducer What is the protocol for when to change the transducer on the table? Understandably, if patient’s blood were flushed through the...
Can you help answer these questions from your colleagues across the country? Protocol to change transducer What is the protocol for when to change the transducer on the table? Understandably, if patient’s blood were flushed through the...
Can you help answer these...
06/19/2008
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What do you think?
06/19/2008
Can you help answer these questions from your colleagues across the country? Protocol to change transducer What is the protocol for when to change the transducer on the table? Understandably, if patient’s blood were flushed through the...
Can you help answer these questions from your colleagues across the country? Protocol to change transducer What is the protocol for when to change the transducer on the table? Understandably, if patient’s blood were flushed through the...
Can you help answer these...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
The 10-Minute Interview with Lynne Jones, RN RCIS
06/19/2008
Director, Cardiac Cath Lab, Tomball Regional Hospital, Tomball, Texas, Co-Chair and Founding Member, SICP Gulf Coast Chapter
Director, Cardiac Cath Lab, Tomball R...
Why did you choose to work in the invasive cardiology field? I was working in the CCU of a large teaching facility in Houston. A new cath lab was built adjacent to our unit and I got to know the cath lab staff that worked in the lab. They...
Why did you choose to work in the invasive cardiology field? I was working in the CCU of a large teaching facility in Houston. A new cath lab was built adjacent to our unit and I got to know the cath lab staff that worked in the lab. They...
Why did you choose to work in...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
The Fruits of Our Labor: Scrub Techs Close Patients with Perclose at Providence
06/19/2008
Edwin J. Newhart, Jr.
Providence Health Center is a 170-bed acute care hospital located in Central Texas. They have 2 Siemens cath labs with a new Siemens/Stereotaxis multi-use lab in the process of being built (Iselin, NJ). The cath lab has a group of...
Providence Health Center is a 170-bed acute care hospital located in Central Texas. They have 2 Siemens cath labs with a new Siemens/Stereotaxis multi-use lab in the process of being built (Iselin, NJ). The cath lab has a group of...
Providence Health Center is a...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
Cath Lab News from the Deep South: Results of a Clinical Beta Site Study with a New Vascular Closure Device
06/19/2008
Donna G. Alexander, RN, BSN, CCRC
East Alabama Medical Center (EAMC), which opened in 1952, is a 352-bed (314 inpatient beds and a 38-bed skilled nursing facility) located in Opelika, Alabama, serving Lee County and at least five surrounding counties (Chambers, Macon,...
East Alabama Medical Center (EAMC), which opened in 1952, is a 352-bed (314 inpatient beds and a 38-bed skilled nursing facility) located in Opelika, Alabama, serving Lee County and at least five surrounding counties (Chambers, Macon,...
East Alabama Medical Center...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Book Review: Invasive Hemodynamics in the Catheterization Laboratory: Self-Assessment and Review
06/19/2008
Georgann Bruski, RT(R), CRT, ARRT
Edited by Michael D. Eisenhauer and Morton J. Kern, Remedica Publishing; (March 2002) This book is a comprehensive review and an essential tool for invasive cardiac fellows preparing to sit their boards. It is a step up in intensity from...
Edited by Michael D. Eisenhauer and Morton J. Kern, Remedica Publishing; (March 2002) This book is a comprehensive review and an essential tool for invasive cardiac fellows preparing to sit their boards. It is a step up in intensity from...
Edited by Michael D. Eisenhauer...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Children`s Hospital of Philadelphia: Streamlining Operations with Medcon`s Digital Image Archiving and Management TCS Sys
06/19/2008
David Donnelly, RN
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) opened its doors in 1855 as the nation’s first children’s hospital. It was named "Best Children’s Hospital in the U.S." by Child Magazine for two years in a row. Our Cardiac Center performs more than...
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) opened its doors in 1855 as the nation’s first children’s hospital. It was named "Best Children’s Hospital in the U.S." by Child Magazine for two years in a row. Our Cardiac Center performs more than...
Children’s Hospital of...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Mechanical External Compression with FemoStop® plus
06/19/2008
James Armstrong, PA-C
The field of hemostasis management has evolved at a speed nearly parallel to other interventional cardiology technologies over the past decade. There is now an arsenal of products available to healthcare providers who manage vascular access...
The field of hemostasis management has evolved at a speed nearly parallel to other interventional cardiology technologies over the past decade. There is now an arsenal of products available to healthcare providers who manage vascular access...
The field of hemostasis...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Vascular Conference: a Multi-discipline Approach to Improved Communication and Patient Outcomes
06/19/2008
Sharon M. Haines, RN, RCIS
Imagine a meeting of cardiologists, radiologists, surgeons and internal medicine physicians engaged in conversation about their patients and treatment options, with occasional input from nurses, radiology, ultrasound, echo, and cath lab...
Imagine a meeting of cardiologists, radiologists, surgeons and internal medicine physicians engaged in conversation about their patients and treatment options, with occasional input from nurses, radiology, ultrasound, echo, and cath lab...
Imagine a meeting of...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab News from the Deep South: Results of a Clinical Beta Site Study with a New Vascular Closure Device
06/19/2008
Donna G. Alexander, RN, BSN, CCRC
East Alabama Medical Center (EAMC), which opened in 1952, is a 352-bed (314 inpatient beds and a 38-bed skilled nursing facility) located in Opelika, Alabama, serving Lee County and at least five surrounding counties (Chambers, Macon,...
East Alabama Medical Center (EAMC), which opened in 1952, is a 352-bed (314 inpatient beds and a 38-bed skilled nursing facility) located in Opelika, Alabama, serving Lee County and at least five surrounding counties (Chambers, Macon,...
East Alabama Medical Center...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
The ACUITY (Acute Catheterization and Urgent Intervention Triage StrategY) Trial: What`s the Next Step for Bivalirudin After R
06/19/2008
Gregg W. Stone, MD, FACC, FSCAI
What is the basic study strategy behind the ACUITY trial? ACUITY will enroll 13,800 patients with moderate-to-high unstable angina, all of whom are intended to undergo an invasive strategy. These patients will usually be in the cath lab...
What is the basic study strategy behind the ACUITY trial? ACUITY will enroll 13,800 patients with moderate-to-high unstable angina, all of whom are intended to undergo an invasive strategy. These patients will usually be in the cath lab...
What is the basic study strategy...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Spotlight
Satilla Regional Heart Center
06/19/2008
Jonathan Abbott, RT(R)(CV), RCIS
What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff? We have one Philips Inturis Suite (Andover, MA) with a peripheral table. We perform both cardiac and special procedures, and we also have a 5-bed patient prep/recovery area....
What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff? We have one Philips Inturis Suite (Andover, MA) with a peripheral table. We perform both cardiac and special procedures, and we also have a 5-bed patient prep/recovery area....
What is the size of your cath...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Cardiogenic Shock and Hemodynamic Support: A Realistic Management Approach
06/19/2008
Mary Dahling, RN, MSN, CCRN, CNS
Five to ten percent of patients who present with an acute myocardial infarction (MI) are in cardiogenic shock.1 Although the mortality from cardiogenic shock has decreased somewhat in the last decade, it is still greater than 50%.2 Despite...
Five to ten percent of patients who present with an acute myocardial infarction (MI) are in cardiogenic shock.1 Although the mortality from cardiogenic shock has decreased somewhat in the last decade, it is still greater than 50%.2 Despite...
Five to ten percent of patients...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Groin Complications Thirty Days Post Cath Lab Procedure Following Hemostasis: Results of Manual Pressure Versus An Arterial Cl
06/19/2008
Amy J. Newell, RT(R); Rhonda Failoni, RT(R); Shawn M. Balaschak, RN, BSN, MS; Beverly Bametrieder, RN; Annie Doty, RN, BSN; John Reitz, RN; Ray Steele, RN, BSN; Scott O'Bryon, RN, BS; Randi Whaley, RN; Chris Primiero, RT(R)
Objectives: To compare digital manual compression versus an arterial closure device (ACD) in the incidence of groin vascular complications thirty days post cath discharge and document whether closure devices impact hospital readmissions and...
Objectives: To compare digital manual compression versus an arterial closure device (ACD) in the incidence of groin vascular complications thirty days post cath discharge and document whether closure devices impact hospital readmissions and...
Objectives: To compare digital...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
CME/CEU OFFERING:Sirolimus-Eluting Stent: Components and Data
06/19/2008
Daniel D. Snavely, MD
Topics: Sirolimus-Eluting Stent: Components and Data Faculty/Credentials: Daniel D. Snavely, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Co-Director, Cardiac Cath Lab, Director, Endovascular Intervention, University of Cincinnati, Division of...
Topics: Sirolimus-Eluting Stent: Components and Data Faculty/Credentials: Daniel D. Snavely, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Co-Director, Cardiac Cath Lab, Director, Endovascular Intervention, University of Cincinnati, Division of...
Topics: Sirolimus-Eluting Stent:...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
Groin Complications Thirty Days Post Cath Lab Procedure Following Hemostasis: Results of Manual Pressure Versus An Arterial Cl
06/19/2008
Amy J. Newell, RT(R); Shawn M. Balaschak, RN, BSN, MS; Beverly Bametrieder, RN; Annie Doty, RN, BSN; John Reitz, RN; Ray Steele, RN, BSN; Scott O'Bryon, RN, BS; Randi Whaley, RN; Chris Primiero, RT(R); Rhonda Failoni, RT(R)
Objectives: To compare digital manual compression versus an arterial closure device (ACD) in the incidence of groin vascular complications thirty days post cath discharge and document whether closure devices impact hospital readmissions and...
Objectives: To compare digital manual compression versus an arterial closure device (ACD) in the incidence of groin vascular complications thirty days post cath discharge and document whether closure devices impact hospital readmissions and...
Objectives: To compare digital...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Evaluation of the SyvekPatch® in Consecutive Patients Undergoing Interventional, EPS and Diagnostic Cardiac Catheteriz
06/19/2008
Kathy Drushal, RN, CCRN; Tara Pesek, RN, BSN; J.C. Garcia, MD; Ralph G. Nader, MD
ABSTRACT Background.The SyvekPatch® (Marine Polymer Technologies, Danvers, MA) has received Food and Drug Association market clearance for the rapid control of bleeding from vascular access sites and percutaneous catheters. A clinical...
ABSTRACT Background.The SyvekPatch® (Marine Polymer Technologies, Danvers, MA) has received Food and Drug Association market clearance for the rapid control of bleeding from vascular access sites and percutaneous catheters. A clinical...
ABSTRACT Background.The...
06/19/2008
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Penumbra recently launched the Lightning Flash® 3.0 Computer Assisted Vacuum Thrombectomy (CAVT™) system, which includes significant upgrades that further advance our leading venous thromboembolism (VTE) platform.
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BURL Concepts Announces First Human Uses of FOQUS Ultrasound System for Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) Detection
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The FOQUS ultrasound system, powered by SONAS technology, includes a transcranial headset system. The system introduces a new method to assist physicians in diagnosing a PFO, addressing the need for diagnostic tools that are both faster,...
The FOQUS ultrasound system, powered by SONAS technology, includes a transcranial headset system. The system introduces a new method to assist physicians in diagnosing a PFO, addressing the need for diagnostic tools that are both faster,...
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Aetna Approves Coverage for Cleerly's AI Cardiovascular Imaging Analysis
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DENVER, CO – Cleerly, focused on AI-based cardiovascular imaging, announced that Aetna will begin covering Cleerly® LABS plaque analysis effective immediately. Aetna, which covers more than 20+ million lives,...
DENVER, CO – Cleerly, focused on AI-based cardiovascular imaging, announced that Aetna will begin covering Cleerly® LABS plaque analysis effective immediately. Aetna, which covers more than 20+ million lives,...
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Coverage Unlocks Reimbursable AI Plaque Quantification With Circle Cardiovascular Imaging's cvi42|Plaque
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CALGARY, Alberta -- Circle Cardiovascular Imaging Inc. (Circle CVI), focused on cardiovascular imaging post-processing, announced that clinical practices using its FDA 510(k)-cleared cvi42 with AI-enabled plaque...
CALGARY, Alberta -- Circle Cardiovascular Imaging Inc. (Circle CVI), focused on cardiovascular imaging post-processing, announced that clinical practices using its FDA 510(k)-cleared cvi42 with AI-enabled plaque...
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Acquisitions
Haemonetics Acquires Vivasure Medical Limited
01/21/2026
Vivasure's PerQseal® Elite system uses a proprietary bioabsorbable patch to seal large-bore (up to 26 F) arteriotomies and venotomies from inside the vessel, offering a sutureless, fully absorbable solution for structural heart and...
Vivasure's PerQseal® Elite system uses a proprietary bioabsorbable patch to seal large-bore (up to 26 F) arteriotomies and venotomies from inside the vessel, offering a sutureless, fully absorbable solution for structural heart and...
Vivasure's PerQseal® Elite...
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Mammograms and Hidden Heart Disease: Annual Scans Can Detect This Silent Killer and Help Save Lives, but Awareness Is Key
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In the “Mammography and Breast Arterial Calcification Trial at Mount Sinai,” doctors are sending letters to patients with high breast artery calcification levels, urging them to see a cardiologist or other doctor for further evaluation to...
In the “Mammography and Breast Arterial Calcification Trial at Mount Sinai,” doctors are sending letters to patients with high breast artery calcification levels, urging them to see a cardiologist or other doctor for further evaluation to...
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ECRI: Misuse of AI Chatbots Tops Annual List of Health Tech Hazards
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ECRI experts say that chatbots have suggested incorrect diagnoses, recommended unnecessary testing, promoted subpar medical supplies, and even invented body parts in response to medical questions while sounding like a trusted expert.
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