Volume 15 - Issue 2 - February, 2007
06/19/2008
Re: The CARE Bill
Dear Editor,
In response to the letter to the editor sent by Messrs. Garay, Ishihara, Mashino and Takara (Cath Lab Digest January 2006, page 30) regarding the proposed CARE legislation, we would like to point out...
Re: The CARE Bill
Dear Editor,
In response to the letter to the editor sent by Messrs. Garay, Ishihara, Mashino and Takara (Cath Lab Digest January 2006, page 30) regarding the proposed CARE legislation, we would like to point out...
Re: The CARE Bill
Dear...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Industry Insider
06/19/2008
Latest IMV Market Report Shows Continued Investment in Cath Lab Technology
According to IMV’s recent census of cath labs in the U.S., an estimated 4.21 million patient cases were performed at 1,970 cardiac cath lab sites in 2006. This...
Latest IMV Market Report Shows Continued Investment in Cath Lab Technology
According to IMV’s recent census of cath labs in the U.S., an estimated 4.21 million patient cases were performed at 1,970 cardiac cath lab sites in 2006. This...
Latest IMV Market Report Shows...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
If your lab is host to various disciplines, how do you handle scheduling?
(88 total responses)
Block Scheduling
Block (2)
Block boarding
Scheduling the case just as cath cases, with block times.
With difficulty. Block time for...
If your lab is host to various disciplines, how do you handle scheduling?
(88 total responses)
Block Scheduling
Block (2)
Block boarding
Scheduling the case just as cath cases, with block times.
With difficulty. Block time for...
If your lab is host to various...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
Re: The CARE Bill
Dear Editor,
In response to the letter to the editor sent by Messrs. Garay, Ishihara, Mashino and Takara (Cath Lab Digest January 2006, page 30) regarding the proposed CARE legislation, we would like to point out...
Re: The CARE Bill
Dear Editor,
In response to the letter to the editor sent by Messrs. Garay, Ishihara, Mashino and Takara (Cath Lab Digest January 2006, page 30) regarding the proposed CARE legislation, we would like to point out...
Re: The CARE Bill
Dear...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
If your lab is host to various disciplines, how do you handle scheduling?
(88 total responses)
Block Scheduling
Block (2)
Block boarding
Scheduling the case just as cath cases, with block times.
With difficulty. Block time for...
If your lab is host to various disciplines, how do you handle scheduling?
(88 total responses)
Block Scheduling
Block (2)
Block boarding
Scheduling the case just as cath cases, with block times.
With difficulty. Block time for...
If your lab is host to various...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Sherman Hospital Cath Lab, Elgin, Illinois
Sherman Hospital Cath Lab, Elgin, Ill...
My life has been greatly influenced, both personally and professionally, by combined experiences from two completely different worlds: one in my native country, Montenegro, the former Yugoslavia, and the other here in the United States. I...
My life has been greatly influenced, both personally and professionally, by combined experiences from two completely different worlds: one in my native country, Montenegro, the former Yugoslavia, and the other here in the United States. I...
My life has been greatly...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
New Questions
ORTs in the Cath Lab I have recently been given the nurse manager position in our cath lab. Staffing is currently the front-running issue needing to be resolved. Our hospital administration is asking that we consider using...
New Questions
ORTs in the Cath Lab I have recently been given the nurse manager position in our cath lab. Staffing is currently the front-running issue needing to be resolved. Our hospital administration is asking that we consider using...
New Questions
ORTs in the...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Lynne Jones, RN, RCIS, FSICP
Please plan to join us in April at The Contemporary Cardiovascular Medicine Symposium. This is an exceptional conference for invasive cardiovascular professionals. Now in its 6th year, the symposium is designed to serve as a comprehensive...
Please plan to join us in April at The Contemporary Cardiovascular Medicine Symposium. This is an exceptional conference for invasive cardiovascular professionals. Now in its 6th year, the symposium is designed to serve as a comprehensive...
Please plan to join us in April...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
The month of February is American Heart Month and the week of February 10-17, 2007 is celebrated as Cardiovascular Professionals Week. It is important to appreciate various professions and to heighten public awareness of the valuable...
The month of February is American Heart Month and the week of February 10-17, 2007 is celebrated as Cardiovascular Professionals Week. It is important to appreciate various professions and to heighten public awareness of the valuable...
The month of February is...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
This month's first question comes to us anonymously, and is answered by Kenneth A. Gorski RN, RCIS, FSICP, Assistant Manager for the Cleveland Clinic Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, and Standards Committee Chair for the SICP. ...
This month's first question comes to us anonymously, and is answered by Kenneth A. Gorski RN, RCIS, FSICP, Assistant Manager for the Cleveland Clinic Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, and Standards Committee Chair for the SICP. ...
This month's first question...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
The RadCARE was put forth for consideration by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN).
The RadCARE bill was then sent to the House of Representatives for consideration on December 8 with a referral to the House Energy and Commerce...
The RadCARE was put forth for consideration by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN).
The RadCARE bill was then sent to the House of Representatives for consideration on December 8 with a referral to the House Energy and Commerce...
The RadCARE was put forth for...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Radiation Storm
by Mike McKeever
I was circulating in the cath lab at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California. I am an x-ray technologist. I was thinking of radiation safety during a long case, and how it is impossible to...
Radiation Storm
by Mike McKeever
I was circulating in the cath lab at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California. I am an x-ray technologist. I was thinking of radiation safety during a long case, and how it is impossible to...
Radiation Storm
by Mike...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Alaide Chieffo, MD; Flavio Airoldi, MD; Antonio Colombo, MD; Laura Minarsch, CCRP, CVT, RT, RT(R)
Angiography revealed a single vessel chronic total occlusion (CTO) of the right coronary artery (RCA) with collateral circulation feeding the distal vessel. Failed attempts utilizing standard guidewires to open the RCA were made the following...
Angiography revealed a single vessel chronic total occlusion (CTO) of the right coronary artery (RCA) with collateral circulation feeding the distal vessel. Failed attempts utilizing standard guidewires to open the RCA were made the following...
Angiography revealed a single...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Kenneth A. Gorski, RN, RCIS, BSN
How often have you heard that from a patient? This question has been posed to me numerous times over the course of the past twenty years. Sometimes the more you know, the harder it becomes to answer the question.
Back in the early days of...
How often have you heard that from a patient? This question has been posed to me numerous times over the course of the past twenty years. Sometimes the more you know, the harder it becomes to answer the question.
Back in the early days of...
How often have you heard that...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA
We had a dilemma. An asymptomatic, well-conditioned 52-year-old runner with mild, treated hyperlipidemia was concerned about heart disease because of a strong family history of coronary artery disease (CAD). He underwent coronary CT...
We had a dilemma. An asymptomatic, well-conditioned 52-year-old runner with mild, treated hyperlipidemia was concerned about heart disease because of a strong family history of coronary artery disease (CAD). He underwent coronary CT...
We had a dilemma. An...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Dennis Holloway, BA, CVT, MBA
There is no doubt that increased educational training in the performance of specific procedures and/or processes can make for a higher standard of care. Giving staff the tools to do their jobs enhances their performance. Increased education...
There is no doubt that increased educational training in the performance of specific procedures and/or processes can make for a higher standard of care. Giving staff the tools to do their jobs enhances their performance. Increased education...
There is no doubt that increased...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
Dennis Holloway, BA, CVT, MBA
There is no doubt that increased educational training in the performance of specific procedures and/or processes can make for a higher standard of care. Giving staff the tools to do their jobs enhances their performance. Increased education...
There is no doubt that increased educational training in the performance of specific procedures and/or processes can make for a higher standard of care. Giving staff the tools to do their jobs enhances their performance. Increased education...
There is no doubt that increased...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Spotlight
06/19/2008
Diane Cronin, RN, BSN
The length of tenure in our lab ranges from 2 years to 6 months. We are very lucky that we have low staff turnover.
What type of procedures are performed at your facility?
We perform approximately 90 procedures per week, ranging from...
The length of tenure in our lab ranges from 2 years to 6 months. We are very lucky that we have low staff turnover.
What type of procedures are performed at your facility?
We perform approximately 90 procedures per week, ranging from...
The length of tenure in our lab...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FESC, MSCAI
Interview questions were formulated by members of the Cath Lab Digest Editorial Board.Has the meta-analysis told us anything about criteria to fall back on when choosing between a bare-metal stent and a drug-eluting stent?
It was a study of...
Interview questions were formulated by members of the Cath Lab Digest Editorial Board.Has the meta-analysis told us anything about criteria to fall back on when choosing between a bare-metal stent and a drug-eluting stent?
It was a study of...
Interview questions were...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
