Volume 14 - Issue 1 - January, 2006
Industry Insider
06/19/2008
Radi Medical Systems Announces 2006 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Payment Rates for Myocardial Fractional Flow Reserve (FFRmyo)
Radi Medical Systems, Inc. announced that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved the...
Radi Medical Systems Announces 2006 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Payment Rates for Myocardial Fractional Flow Reserve (FFRmyo)
Radi Medical Systems, Inc. announced that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved the...
Radi Medical Systems Announces...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Matthew J. Price, MD
However, luminal thrombosis after coronary plaque rupture is the proximate cause of acute coronary syndromes (unstable angina, non-ST elevation myocardial infarction, and ST-elevation myocardial infarction). Coronary thrombosis is also as an...
However, luminal thrombosis after coronary plaque rupture is the proximate cause of acute coronary syndromes (unstable angina, non-ST elevation myocardial infarction, and ST-elevation myocardial infarction). Coronary thrombosis is also as an...
However, luminal thrombosis...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
What is the STENT Registry?
The Strategic Transcatheter Evaluation of New Therapies (STENT) Registry is a multi-center group that was founded in 2003. The original purpose of the effort was to have a large, multi-center registry with late...
What is the STENT Registry?
The Strategic Transcatheter Evaluation of New Therapies (STENT) Registry is a multi-center group that was founded in 2003. The original purpose of the effort was to have a large, multi-center registry with late...
What is the STENT Registry?
The...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Technology Pulse
06/19/2008
Dennis R. Chadwick, RCIS, BS, FSICP
These stents have a variety of unique designs and are composed of many different materials. The polymers (or their absence thereof) are as distinctive as the drugs they elute. The following twelve companies are an example of the innovation...
These stents have a variety of unique designs and are composed of many different materials. The polymers (or their absence thereof) are as distinctive as the drugs they elute. The following twelve companies are an example of the innovation...
These stents have a variety of...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Sacred Heart Medical Center, Spokane, Washington
Sacred Heart Medical Center, Spokane,...
Why did you choose to work in the invasive cardiology field?
I chose the cardiology field because of the personal contribution you can make to each patient. Examples of gratifying experiences include opening a totally occluded coronary...
Why did you choose to work in the invasive cardiology field?
I chose the cardiology field because of the personal contribution you can make to each patient. Examples of gratifying experiences include opening a totally occluded coronary...
Why did you choose to work in...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Jim Wade, RN, RCIS, RCS, FSICP, MBA; Pat Bissonette; Lury Kutruff, RN, MHA
Cath Lab Opportunity Statement
An opportunity exists with the outpatient cath lab process, beginning with the registration of the patient and ending with the patient’s arrival in the cath lab.
The current process causes patient, physician...
Cath Lab Opportunity Statement
An opportunity exists with the outpatient cath lab process, beginning with the registration of the patient and ending with the patient’s arrival in the cath lab.
The current process causes patient, physician...
Cath Lab Opportunity...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Bruce W. Coyne, RCIS, RT
At the Crossroads offers a change of pace from our usual clinical fare. Here we can read about the life endeavors of our patients. It may help us remember that this patient in front of us on the cath table is not #5 for the day in this room...
At the Crossroads offers a change of pace from our usual clinical fare. Here we can read about the life endeavors of our patients. It may help us remember that this patient in front of us on the cath table is not #5 for the day in this room...
At the Crossroads offers a...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
It’s always a boost to begin a new year with some exciting news, and I’m happy to announce that Dr. Morton Kern starts out 2006 as Cath Lab Digest‘s new clinical editor. He will take over from Dr. Reginald Low, CLD’s original clinical editor....
It’s always a boost to begin a new year with some exciting news, and I’m happy to announce that Dr. Morton Kern starts out 2006 as Cath Lab Digest‘s new clinical editor. He will take over from Dr. Reginald Low, CLD’s original clinical editor....
It’s always a boost to begin a...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
Dear Editor,
I appreciated the Cath Lab Digest November 2005 article, Recruitment and Retention: A Cath Lab Perspective by Dennis Holloway and found it to be very accurate, based on my experience in the cath lab. Working in a variety of cath...
Dear Editor,
I appreciated the Cath Lab Digest November 2005 article, Recruitment and Retention: A Cath Lab Perspective by Dennis Holloway and found it to be very accurate, based on my experience in the cath lab. Working in a variety of cath...
Dear Editor,
I appreciated the...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Spotlight
06/19/2008
Eric Cohen, MD; Anne Forsey, BScN, RN; Leslie Graham, RN
Our team consists of:
30 RNs
3 RN coordinators for cardiac catheterizations and percutaneous coronary interventional (PCI) procedures
3 secretaries
3 patient service associates
2 patient administration associates
1 patient care...
Our team consists of:
30 RNs
3 RN coordinators for cardiac catheterizations and percutaneous coronary interventional (PCI) procedures
3 secretaries
3 patient service associates
2 patient administration associates
1 patient care...
Our team consists of:
30...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
