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Volume 14 - Issue 9 - September, 2006

Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA
When finally asked specifically about this latter patient, I informed our quality assurance people of the following. The patient was an 82-year-old man with two days of stuttering chest pain, anterior ST elevations with some coving,...
When finally asked specifically about this latter patient, I informed our quality assurance people of the following. The patient was an 82-year-old man with two days of stuttering chest pain, anterior ST elevations with some coving,...
When finally asked specifically...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
The SICP is proud and pleased to announce that the SICP’s Signature RCIS Review Course will play a significant role in the curriculum at the 7th Annual New Cardiovascular Horizons and Management of the Diabetic Foot & Wound Healing...
The SICP is proud and pleased to announce that the SICP’s Signature RCIS Review Course will play a significant role in the curriculum at the 7th Annual New Cardiovascular Horizons and Management of the Diabetic Foot & Wound Healing...
The SICP is proud and pleased to...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Industry Insider
06/19/2008
Abbott Enrolls First Patient In New Clinical Trial Of Xience V Drug-Eluting Stent Abbott announced enrollment of the first patient in its SPIRIT IV clinical trial for the continued evaluation of the safety and efficacy of the Xience V...
Abbott Enrolls First Patient In New Clinical Trial Of Xience V Drug-Eluting Stent Abbott announced enrollment of the first patient in its SPIRIT IV clinical trial for the continued evaluation of the safety and efficacy of the Xience V...
Abbott Enrolls First Patient In...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Jerome E. Goss, MD; Charles E. Chambers, MD; Frederick A. Heupler, MD; Jeffrey W. Moses, MD; Arfan J. Al-Hani, MD; William T. Armstrong, MD; Airlie A.C. Cameron, MD; Wayne E. Dear, MD; Stephen Balter, PhD; Manuel de la Llata, MD; Larry S. Dean, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI; John P. Dervan, MD; James C. Dillion, MD; Lowell I. Gerber, MD; Kenneth R. Jutzy, MD; Francis Y.K. Lau, MD; William J. Phillips, MD; Sheldon S. Sbar, MD; William C. Sheldon, MD; Neal S. Kleiman, MD
This report represents the first guidelines for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of anaphylactoid reactions to contrast media occurring specifically during cardiac catheterization. The incidence of contrast media complications in the...
This report represents the first guidelines for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of anaphylactoid reactions to contrast media occurring specifically during cardiac catheterization. The incidence of contrast media complications in the...
This report represents the first...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
David E. Allie, MD
New Cardiovascular Horizons (NCVH) is returning to New Orleans this year, after being forced to relocate to Miami last year due to Hurricane Katrina. What can attendees expect in the post-Katrina city? Barring the wrath of any other...
New Cardiovascular Horizons (NCVH) is returning to New Orleans this year, after being forced to relocate to Miami last year due to Hurricane Katrina. What can attendees expect in the post-Katrina city? Barring the wrath of any other...
New Cardiovascular Horizons...
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
William W. O'Neill, MD
When did you first start using the Cribier-Edwards percutaneous aortic heart valve? We received FDA approval in August 2003 for a one-time compassionate use. Dr. Alain Cribier, who did the first human clinical implants with the valve, had...
When did you first start using the Cribier-Edwards percutaneous aortic heart valve? We received FDA approval in August 2003 for a one-time compassionate use. Dr. Alain Cribier, who did the first human clinical implants with the valve, had...
When did you first start using...
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
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
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
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
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
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
Feature
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
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
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
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
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
06/19/2008
Wava Truscott, PhD
The purpose of cardiac catheterization has advanced significantly over the decades from one of supportive diagnostics, to one more of treatment. Rashkind was the first to report a successful corrective procedure when he described the use of...
The purpose of cardiac catheterization has advanced significantly over the decades from one of supportive diagnostics, to one more of treatment. Rashkind was the first to report a successful corrective procedure when he described the use of...
The purpose of cardiac...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest