Volume 15 - Issue 2 - February, 2007
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
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
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
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
