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Volume 15 - Issue 3 - March, 2007

What Do You Think?
06/19/2008
New Questions Post-Transradial Procedure Care We are interested in what is being done post procedure for the radial artery approach: how long until discharge? How is the site managed? What kind of dressing is used? Thank you for any help...
New Questions Post-Transradial Procedure Care We are interested in what is being done post procedure for the radial artery approach: how long until discharge? How is the site managed? What kind of dressing is used? Thank you for any help...
New Questions Post-Transradial...
06/19/2008
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Industry Insider
Clinical and Industry News
06/19/2008
Tryton Medical Completes Enrollment Phase of First-in-Man Study 30 Patients With Coronary Bifurcation Lesions Treated Using Company’s Side-Branch Stent Tryton Medical, Inc., a developer of stents designed to treat bifurcation lesions,...
Tryton Medical Completes Enrollment Phase of First-in-Man Study 30 Patients With Coronary Bifurcation Lesions Treated Using Company’s Side-Branch Stent Tryton Medical, Inc., a developer of stents designed to treat bifurcation lesions,...
Tryton Medical Completes...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
What Do You Think?
06/19/2008
New Questions Post-Transradial Procedure Care We are interested in what is being done post procedure for the radial artery approach: how long until discharge? How is the site managed? What kind of dressing is used? Thank you for any help...
New Questions Post-Transradial Procedure Care We are interested in what is being done post procedure for the radial artery approach: how long until discharge? How is the site managed? What kind of dressing is used? Thank you for any help...
New Questions Post-Transradial...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
March 2007 Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP) News
06/19/2008
The Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP) maintains that all invasive cardiovascular professionals, with or without formal cardiovascular academic training, should demonstrate knowledge and competence through education and...
The Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP) maintains that all invasive cardiovascular professionals, with or without formal cardiovascular academic training, should demonstrate knowledge and competence through education and...
The Society of Invasive...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
SICP Excellence Award Sponsored by Terumo Interventional Systems
06/19/2008
Gary Clifton, Marketing Manager, announced, Terumo is very excited and honored to be part of the SICP and their mission to bring education and training to their membership through their varied programs and initiatives. We feel it is essential...
Gary Clifton, Marketing Manager, announced, Terumo is very excited and honored to be part of the SICP and their mission to bring education and training to their membership through their varied programs and initiatives. We feel it is essential...
Gary Clifton, Marketing Manager,...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Advancing the Field of Coronary Intervention: Magnetic Guidewire Navigation
06/19/2008
Michael J. Lim, MD
Why Do We Need Such Technology? While the currently available guide catheters, highly specialized guidewires, and transit catheters have allowed operators to gain access to distal vasculature not reachable five years ago, we still run into...
Why Do We Need Such Technology? While the currently available guide catheters, highly specialized guidewires, and transit catheters have allowed operators to gain access to distal vasculature not reachable five years ago, we still run into...
Why Do We Need Such...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
The Ten-Minute Interview with: Belinda Trollinger, RN, RCIS
06/19/2008
Cardiovascular Electrophysiology Lab, Baptist Hospital, Pensacola, Florida
Cardiovascular Electrophysiology Lab,...
My name is Belinda Trollinger, RN, RCIS. I have been an RN for 23 years. I work in the Cardiovascular Electrophysiology Lab at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, Florida. I am one of the charter members of the Emerald Coast Chapter of the SICP. I...
My name is Belinda Trollinger, RN, RCIS. I have been an RN for 23 years. I work in the Cardiovascular Electrophysiology Lab at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, Florida. I am one of the charter members of the Emerald Coast Chapter of the SICP. I...
My name is Belinda Trollinger,...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Communicating the Benefits of Drug-Eluting Stents to Patients
06/19/2008
Kirk Garratt, MD, MSc
Kirk Garratt, MD, MSc
What do you first tell a patient who will require treatment for coronary artery disease (CAD)? I like to begin with a discussion of the benefits and risks of each treatment option so that we can together decide if a catheter-based therapy is...
What do you first tell a patient who will require treatment for coronary artery disease (CAD)? I like to begin with a discussion of the benefits and risks of each treatment option so that we can together decide if a catheter-based therapy is...
What do you first tell a patient...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Hemodynamics is a 12-Letter Word! An intro to the basics. Part I: Basics with Wiggers
06/19/2008
Jon E. Jenkins, RN, RCIS
With the advent of advanced hemodynamic monitoring systems, the dependency on catheterization lab staff and physicians to perform waveform analysis and hemodynamic calculations is slowly dwindling. We no longer work in an era where new staff...
With the advent of advanced hemodynamic monitoring systems, the dependency on catheterization lab staff and physicians to perform waveform analysis and hemodynamic calculations is slowly dwindling. We no longer work in an era where new staff...
With the advent of advanced...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Inventory Management and Recall Capabilities with RFID Technology
06/19/2008
Dorothy Nalepa, BS
The Michigan Congenital Heart Center (MCHC), located within C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan, has earned the reputation as a national and international leader in providing comprehensive care for congenital heart...
The Michigan Congenital Heart Center (MCHC), located within C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan, has earned the reputation as a national and international leader in providing comprehensive care for congenital heart...
The Michigan Congenital Heart...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Educational Approaches: How does a diagnostic cardiac catheterization lab convert to an interventional lab?
06/19/2008
Zukari Logan, RCIS; Myrna Schnur, RN
To facilitate the transition, the hospital applied in the spring of 2005 for involvement in the Cardiovascular Patient Outcomes Research Trial (C-PORT). C-PORT was organized to gauge the feasibility of performing percutaneous coronary...
To facilitate the transition, the hospital applied in the spring of 2005 for involvement in the Cardiovascular Patient Outcomes Research Trial (C-PORT). C-PORT was organized to gauge the feasibility of performing percutaneous coronary...
To facilitate the transition,...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Editor's Corner
Radiation Exposure in Cardiology Testing: How much is too much?
06/19/2008
Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA
Daily non-occupational exposure: It is well-known that there is naturally occurring background radiation exposure for everyone, everywhere. The average person in the United States receives an approximate 3 mSv per year from naturally...
Daily non-occupational exposure: It is well-known that there is naturally occurring background radiation exposure for everyone, everywhere. The average person in the United States receives an approximate 3 mSv per year from naturally...
Daily non-occupational exposure:...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Ask the Clinical Instructor:A Q&A column for those new to the cath lab
06/19/2008
Jason Wilson, RCIS
It depends on a lot of things. One of the things that matters is this: is your lab an open lab or a closed lab? This means are vendors allowed in the rooms or not? This is determined by the managers and/or physician director. Some places do...
It depends on a lot of things. One of the things that matters is this: is your lab an open lab or a closed lab? This means are vendors allowed in the rooms or not? This is determined by the managers and/or physician director. Some places do...
It depends on a lot of things....
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
Ask the Clinical Instructor:A Q&A column for those new to the cath lab
06/19/2008
Jason Wilson, RCIS
It depends on a lot of things. One of the things that matters is this: is your lab an open lab or a closed lab? This means are vendors allowed in the rooms or not? This is determined by the managers and/or physician director. Some places do...
It depends on a lot of things. One of the things that matters is this: is your lab an open lab or a closed lab? This means are vendors allowed in the rooms or not? This is determined by the managers and/or physician director. Some places do...
It depends on a lot of things....
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Spotlight
The Indiana Heart Hospital
06/19/2008
Rosalyn Brown, MSN, RN; Brant Bennett; Luana Goodman, ADN, RN; Carolyn P. Smith, MSN, RN, BC, CNS, CVN II; Sue Huser, BSN, RN; Sharrilyn Schultz, BSN, RN; Jim Wade, RN, RCIS, RCS, FSICP, MBA
We have approximately 60 full-time employees (FTEs), composed of registered nurses (RNs), radiology technologists (RTs) and cardiovascular (CV) technologists. Most staff members have been with TIHH since it opened in 2003. We also have...
We have approximately 60 full-time employees (FTEs), composed of registered nurses (RNs), radiology technologists (RTs) and cardiovascular (CV) technologists. Most staff members have been with TIHH since it opened in 2003. We also have...
We have approximately 60...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Technology Pulse
Magnetically Supported PCI: Success after failed surgery and conventional PCI
06/19/2008
Steve Ramcharitar, MRCP, DPhil; Patrick W. Serruys, MD, PhD; Mark S. Patterson, MBBS, PhD, MD, MRCP
The System The Niobe® II magnetic navigation system (MNS: Stereotaxis, St Louis, Missouri) has two external magnets that produce a 15-cm uniform magnetic field. Through computer-controlled magnet movements, the magnetic field can be...
The System The Niobe® II magnetic navigation system (MNS: Stereotaxis, St Louis, Missouri) has two external magnets that produce a 15-cm uniform magnetic field. Through computer-controlled magnet movements, the magnetic field can be...
The System The Niobe® II...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Management
Tips to Improve Door-to-Balloon Time to < 90 Minutes:Life in the real world
06/19/2008
Barbara Lamia, RN, MSN, CCRN
Treatment and care of these patients has improved significantly over the past decade, which has resulted in a decline in mortality and morbidity. The AHA and the American College of Cardiology (ACC)2 formed a task force to develop...
Treatment and care of these patients has improved significantly over the past decade, which has resulted in a decline in mortality and morbidity. The AHA and the American College of Cardiology (ACC)2 formed a task force to develop...
Treatment and care of these...
06/19/2008
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Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FAHA, FACC 

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Rebecca Kapur, rkapur@hmpglobal.com

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