Volume 14 - Issue 9 - September, 2006
06/19/2008
Michael L. Arnold, RN
We are dramatically changing the way we approach the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Practitioners and patients alike demand progressively less invasive treatments, with better results. For some this is simply a matter of convenience,...
We are dramatically changing the way we approach the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Practitioners and patients alike demand progressively less invasive treatments, with better results. For some this is simply a matter of convenience,...
We are dramatically changing the...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Dennis Holloway, BA, CVT, MBA
Expense reduction is a primary concern for any facility. With the ever-changing state of reimbursement conditions, it is not clear from one year to the next what will be reimbursed, how much and for how long. It is up to us as cath lab...
Expense reduction is a primary concern for any facility. With the ever-changing state of reimbursement conditions, it is not clear from one year to the next what will be reimbursed, how much and for how long. It is up to us as cath lab...
Expense reduction is a primary...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
Chuck Williams, BS, RCSA, RCIS, RT, CPFT, CCT
I would like to compliment Dr. Wava Truscott for an excellent article on a very important topic. This outstanding article should cause medical staff and support staff members to reconsider certain practices in the cath lab.
One example is...
I would like to compliment Dr. Wava Truscott for an excellent article on a very important topic. This outstanding article should cause medical staff and support staff members to reconsider certain practices in the cath lab.
One example is...
I would like to compliment Dr....
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Can you help your fellow professionals with the following NEW questions?
Young Female Patients
Do other cath labs have policies on pre menopausal female patients? We are seeing more and more young women needing cath and EP procedures. Do...
Can you help your fellow professionals with the following NEW questions?
Young Female Patients
Do other cath labs have policies on pre menopausal female patients? We are seeing more and more young women needing cath and EP procedures. Do...
Can you help your fellow...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
David E. Allie, MD
When reading this very interesting report by Truscott regarding lint and particle contamination in the cath lab, I couldn’t help but flash back to scrubbing into my first cath lab cases in the late 1980’s after my formal training as a cardiac...
When reading this very interesting report by Truscott regarding lint and particle contamination in the cath lab, I couldn’t help but flash back to scrubbing into my first cath lab cases in the late 1980’s after my formal training as a cardiac...
When reading this very...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Jason Wilson, RCIS
One of the patients that we had come in with chest pain actually had normal coronary arteries. The physician decided to rule out PE to help explain the chest pain. What can you tell me about that?
Great question. Amazingly, there are a...
One of the patients that we had come in with chest pain actually had normal coronary arteries. The physician decided to rule out PE to help explain the chest pain. What can you tell me about that?
Great question. Amazingly, there are a...
One of the patients that we had...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
Michael L. Arnold, RN
We are dramatically changing the way we approach the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Practitioners and patients alike demand progressively less invasive treatments, with better results. For some this is simply a matter of convenience,...
We are dramatically changing the way we approach the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Practitioners and patients alike demand progressively less invasive treatments, with better results. For some this is simply a matter of convenience,...
We are dramatically changing the...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
Can you help your fellow professionals with the following NEW questions?
Young Female Patients
Do other cath labs have policies on pre menopausal female patients? We are seeing more and more young women needing cath and EP procedures. Do...
Can you help your fellow professionals with the following NEW questions?
Young Female Patients
Do other cath labs have policies on pre menopausal female patients? We are seeing more and more young women needing cath and EP procedures. Do...
Can you help your fellow...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Spotlight
06/19/2008
Tom Leighow, RT, RCVT, RCIS, ACLS
The credentials of our staff are made up of:
4 RNs
2 RNs, BSNs
1 BS, RT(R), RCIS
1 RT(R), RCIS
1 RT(R)(CV)(CT), BS
1 RT(R)(CV), RCVT/RCIS*
2 RCISs
1 certified respiratory therapist (CRT)
1 certified nursing assistant (CNA)...
The credentials of our staff are made up of:
4 RNs
2 RNs, BSNs
1 BS, RT(R), RCIS
1 RT(R), RCIS
1 RT(R)(CV)(CT), BS
1 RT(R)(CV), RCVT/RCIS*
2 RCISs
1 certified respiratory therapist (CRT)
1 certified nursing assistant (CNA)...
The credentials of our staff are...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
