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Volume 11 - Issue 3 - March, 2003

First Annual Ohio River Valley Cardiovascular Symposium is a Huge Success
06/19/2008
Roger A. Siegfried, MHA, RCIS, FSICP; Andrea E. Davis, RCIS, FSICP
What if you read comments like: Excellent breakout sessions; Symposium and entertainment were excellent; SICP should be commended; Very well-planned and thought out; I’ve attended these type of meetings in Cincinnati, Texas,...
What if you read comments like: Excellent breakout sessions; Symposium and entertainment were excellent; SICP should be commended; Very well-planned and thought out; I’ve attended these type of meetings in Cincinnati, Texas,...
What if you read comments...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
2003 American College of Cardiology Exhibitor Preview
06/19/2008
Abbott Vascular Visit Abbott Vascular at ACC Booth # 2403 For more information, call (800) 222-6883 or go to www.perclose.com. Amersham Health Visit Amersham Health at ACC Booth # 3048 For more information, call (609) 514-6000 or go...
Abbott Vascular Visit Abbott Vascular at ACC Booth # 2403 For more information, call (800) 222-6883 or go to www.perclose.com. Amersham Health Visit Amersham Health at ACC Booth # 3048 For more information, call (609) 514-6000 or go...
Abbott Vascular Visit Abbott...
06/19/2008
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A Meditative View
06/19/2008
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What Do You Think?
06/19/2008
Patient Follow Up Our lab is going to start following patients after discharge to home. The plan is to call patients at home and ask them various questions about their post-hospital recovery period. We’d like to know what other labs do in...
Patient Follow Up Our lab is going to start following patients after discharge to home. The plan is to call patients at home and ask them various questions about their post-hospital recovery period. We’d like to know what other labs do in...
Patient Follow Up Our lab is...
06/19/2008
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What Do You Think?
06/19/2008
Patient Follow Up Our lab is going to start following patients after discharge to home. The plan is to call patients at home and ask them various questions about their post-hospital recovery period. We’d like to know what other labs do in...
Patient Follow Up Our lab is going to start following patients after discharge to home. The plan is to call patients at home and ask them various questions about their post-hospital recovery period. We’d like to know what other labs do in...
Patient Follow Up Our lab is...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Events Calendar
06/19/2008
March 27 - 29 14th Annual ACCA Cardiovascular Administrators’ Management Conference American College of Cardiovascular Administrators is a specialty group of the American Academy of Medical Administrators Managing the Winds of Change:...
March 27 - 29 14th Annual ACCA Cardiovascular Administrators’ Management Conference American College of Cardiovascular Administrators is a specialty group of the American Academy of Medical Administrators Managing the Winds of Change:...
March 27 - 29 14th Annual ACCA...
06/19/2008
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Clinical Events Calendar
06/19/2008
March 27 - 29 14th Annual ACCA Cardiovascular Administrators’ Management Conference American College of Cardiovascular Administrators is a specialty group of the American Academy of Medical Administrators Managing the Winds of Change:...
March 27 - 29 14th Annual ACCA Cardiovascular Administrators’ Management Conference American College of Cardiovascular Administrators is a specialty group of the American Academy of Medical Administrators Managing the Winds of Change:...
March 27 - 29 14th Annual ACCA...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Digest Email Discussion Group
06/19/2008
The following Email Discussion Group was sponsored by the Society for Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP). Does your hospital plan on stocking drug-eluting stents? If yes, will you have strict criteria for usage? Patient...
The following Email Discussion Group was sponsored by the Society for Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP). Does your hospital plan on stocking drug-eluting stents? If yes, will you have strict criteria for usage? Patient...
The following Email Discussion...
06/19/2008
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Cath Lab Digest Email Discussion Group
06/19/2008
The following Email Discussion Group was sponsored by the Society for Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP). Does your hospital plan on stocking drug-eluting stents? If yes, will you have strict criteria for usage? Patient...
The following Email Discussion Group was sponsored by the Society for Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP). Does your hospital plan on stocking drug-eluting stents? If yes, will you have strict criteria for usage? Patient...
The following Email Discussion...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
In Brief: Original Research Abstracts from the Journal of Invasive Cardiology
06/19/2008
Safety and Efficacy of Cutting Balloon Angioplasty:The Mayo Clinic Experience James L. Orford, MBChB, MPH, Panayotis Fasseas, MD, Ali E. Denktas, MD, LaVon Hammes, Kirk N. Garratt, MD, Peter B. Berger, MD, David R. Holmes, MD, Gregory W....
Safety and Efficacy of Cutting Balloon Angioplasty:The Mayo Clinic Experience James L. Orford, MBChB, MPH, Panayotis Fasseas, MD, Ali E. Denktas, MD, LaVon Hammes, Kirk N. Garratt, MD, Peter B. Berger, MD, David R. Holmes, MD, Gregory W....
Safety and Efficacy of Cutting...
06/19/2008
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Infographic
Clinical and Industry News I
06/19/2008
Boston Scientific Announces European Launch of Its TAXUS Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent System Boston Scientific Corporation announced that it has initiated the launch of its TAXUS® paclitaxel-eluting stent system in Europe and other international...
Boston Scientific Announces European Launch of Its TAXUS Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent System Boston Scientific Corporation announced that it has initiated the launch of its TAXUS® paclitaxel-eluting stent system in Europe and other international...
Boston Scientific Announces...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Infographic
Clinical and Industry News II
06/19/2008
HIV Drugs Don’t Increase Heart Risk Fears that the drugs used to treat people infected with HIV cause an increased risk of heart attack and stroke appear to be unfounded, at least over the short term, researchers report. While it is...
HIV Drugs Don’t Increase Heart Risk Fears that the drugs used to treat people infected with HIV cause an increased risk of heart attack and stroke appear to be unfounded, at least over the short term, researchers report. While it is...
HIV Drugs Don’t Increase Heart...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
The Cardiovascular Technology Program at Grossmont College
06/19/2008
Rick Kirby, RCIS, RCS, MA
Why and how did you become an educator? I graduated from the Navy Cardiopulmonary School in Bethesda, Maryland in 1964. I served as a staff technologist at the Naval Medical Research Center at Bethesda, and later at the Naval Hospital in...
Why and how did you become an educator? I graduated from the Navy Cardiopulmonary School in Bethesda, Maryland in 1964. I served as a staff technologist at the Naval Medical Research Center at Bethesda, and later at the Naval Hospital in...
Why and how did you become an...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Letter to the Editor
06/19/2008
In response to the Letters to the Editor in the January issue of Cath Lab Digest (Laissez Faire Facilities and JCAHO & In Compliance with MIOSHA/OSHA?), our cath lab has never required the staff to wear hat/masks during LHC/interventions,...
In response to the Letters to the Editor in the January issue of Cath Lab Digest (Laissez Faire Facilities and JCAHO & In Compliance with MIOSHA/OSHA?), our cath lab has never required the staff to wear hat/masks during LHC/interventions,...
In response to the Letters to...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
The Key to Successfully Starting a Medical Technology Company
06/19/2008
Thomas Letscher; Barbara A. Wrigley
Such could be applied to the success and failure of many medical technology, biotech, and life sciences companies. It’s often not one major breakthrough that usually guarantees the success of a new venture, as some may think. Success often...
Such could be applied to the success and failure of many medical technology, biotech, and life sciences companies. It’s often not one major breakthrough that usually guarantees the success of a new venture, as some may think. Success often...
Such could be applied to the...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
The Cath Lab That Could: Children`s National Medical Center Implements Medcon`s TCS System
06/19/2008
Michael Slack, MD
A 137-year-old center dedicated to meeting the full medical needs of children and adults suffering from congenital diseases, CNMC provides programs varying from well-baby visits to treatments for cancer and heart problems. The center has a...
A 137-year-old center dedicated to meeting the full medical needs of children and adults suffering from congenital diseases, CNMC provides programs varying from well-baby visits to treatments for cancer and heart problems. The center has a...
A 137-year-old center dedicated...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
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Enhancing Patient Care and Reducing Cath Lab Workload: Atlanta Medical Center`s Focus on Information Technology
06/19/2008
Scott Strech, RN, BSN, MBA
Our volume has doubled over the last calendar year, a trend we expect to continue. We expect to perform approximately 2500 procedures this year: roughly 60% cardiac cath and stent procedures and 35% peripheral vascular procedures. The other...
Our volume has doubled over the last calendar year, a trend we expect to continue. We expect to perform approximately 2500 procedures this year: roughly 60% cardiac cath and stent procedures and 35% peripheral vascular procedures. The other...
Our volume has doubled over the...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
The Key to Successfully Starting a Medical Technology Company
06/19/2008
Thomas Letscher; Barbara A. Wrigley
Such could be applied to the success and failure of many medical technology, biotech, and life sciences companies. It’s often not one major breakthrough that usually guarantees the success of a new venture, as some may think. Success often...
Such could be applied to the success and failure of many medical technology, biotech, and life sciences companies. It’s often not one major breakthrough that usually guarantees the success of a new venture, as some may think. Success often...
Such could be applied to the...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
Letter to the Editor
06/19/2008
In response to the Letters to the Editor in the January issue of Cath Lab Digest (Laissez Faire Facilities and JCAHO & In Compliance with MIOSHA/OSHA?), our cath lab has never required the staff to wear hat/masks during LHC/interventions,...
In response to the Letters to the Editor in the January issue of Cath Lab Digest (Laissez Faire Facilities and JCAHO & In Compliance with MIOSHA/OSHA?), our cath lab has never required the staff to wear hat/masks during LHC/interventions,...
In response to the Letters to...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
CME/CEU OFFERING: Sirolimus-Eluting Stents: A Leap Forward in the Prevention of Restenosis After Percutaneous Coronary Interve
06/19/2008
Jeffrey J. Popma, MD, FACC, FSCAI; Katherine Klein, RCIS; Robert Medico
A new era in cardiovascular care may soon be upon us, with the FDA aproval of drug-eluting stents fast approaching. This new type of therapy has many in the medical industry buzzing over potential clinical outcomes and overall reduction in...
A new era in cardiovascular care may soon be upon us, with the FDA aproval of drug-eluting stents fast approaching. This new type of therapy has many in the medical industry buzzing over potential clinical outcomes and overall reduction in...
A new era in cardiovascular care...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
The Cath Lab That Could: Children`s National Medical Center Implements Medcon`s TCS System
06/19/2008
Michael Slack, MD
A 137-year-old center dedicated to meeting the full medical needs of children and adults suffering from congenital diseases, CNMC provides programs varying from well-baby visits to treatments for cancer and heart problems. The center has a...
A 137-year-old center dedicated to meeting the full medical needs of children and adults suffering from congenital diseases, CNMC provides programs varying from well-baby visits to treatments for cancer and heart problems. The center has a...
A 137-year-old center dedicated...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Enhancing Patient Care and Reducing Cath Lab Workload: Atlanta Medical Center`s Focus on Information Technology
06/19/2008
Scott Strech, RN, BSN, MBA
Our volume has doubled over the last calendar year, a trend we expect to continue. We expect to perform approximately 2500 procedures this year: roughly 60% cardiac cath and stent procedures and 35% peripheral vascular procedures. The other...
Our volume has doubled over the last calendar year, a trend we expect to continue. We expect to perform approximately 2500 procedures this year: roughly 60% cardiac cath and stent procedures and 35% peripheral vascular procedures. The other...
Our volume has doubled over the...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
The Ten-Minute Interview with Jim Wade, RN, RCIS, RCS, MBA, FSICP
06/19/2008
Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis, Indiana
I began work as a CICU Computer Lab Technician in a large volume surgical center at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). They had a very advanced post-op patient recovery computer system. (I didn’t realize just how advanced it was,...
I began work as a CICU Computer Lab Technician in a large volume surgical center at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). They had a very advanced post-op patient recovery computer system. (I didn’t realize just how advanced it was,...
I began work as a CICU Computer...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Letter from the Editor
Professional, Educate Thyself
06/19/2008
I’m pleased to bring you our first CME/CEU-offering. Two CEUs or 1 CME can be yours FREE! Many thanks to Eli Lilly & Company and Cordis Corporation for supporting these educational opportunities via an unrestricted educational grant. The two...
I’m pleased to bring you our first CME/CEU-offering. Two CEUs or 1 CME can be yours FREE! Many thanks to Eli Lilly & Company and Cordis Corporation for supporting these educational opportunities via an unrestricted educational grant. The two...
I’m pleased to bring you our...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Spotlight
Eastern Maine Medical Center
06/19/2008
Melinda Durrange, RN, BSN
What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members? EMMC’s cardiac cath lab consists of 3 cath labs, 1 electrophysiology lab, and a 9-bay prep and holding area. Our EP lab is currently undergoing an expansion and...
What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members? EMMC’s cardiac cath lab consists of 3 cath labs, 1 electrophysiology lab, and a 9-bay prep and holding area. Our EP lab is currently undergoing an expansion and...
What is the size of your cath...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Charting the Advance of Cardiovascular Image & Information Management A Conversation with Thomas Kennedy, PhD*
06/19/2008
Thomas Kennedy, PhD
In this interview with Cath Lab Digest, Dr. Kennedy reflects on the evolution of cardiovascular informatics, comments on current information management challenges in the cath lab, and paints a picture of the integrated cardiology department...
In this interview with Cath Lab Digest, Dr. Kennedy reflects on the evolution of cardiovascular informatics, comments on current information management challenges in the cath lab, and paints a picture of the integrated cardiology department...
In this interview with Cath Lab...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
CEU OFFERING: Advances in Adjunctive Pharmacotherapy for Patients Undergoing PCI
06/19/2008
Monty Yoder, PharmD, BCPS
Learning Objectives. At the conclusion of this activity, the participant should be able to: Explain how thrombi are generated and their role in acute coronary syndromes Describe the multiple pathways leading to platelet activation ...
Learning Objectives. At the conclusion of this activity, the participant should be able to: Explain how thrombi are generated and their role in acute coronary syndromes Describe the multiple pathways leading to platelet activation ...
Learning Objectives. At the...
06/19/2008
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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...
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Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FAHA, FACC 

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