Volume 15 - Issue 4 - April, 2007
Industry Insider
06/19/2008
CircuLite Closes $20 million Series B Private Placement Funding Foundation
Medical Partners Led Round
CircuLite Incorporated, a medical device company focused on the development of a proprietary circulatory assist technology for the...
CircuLite Closes $20 million Series B Private Placement Funding Foundation
Medical Partners Led Round
CircuLite Incorporated, a medical device company focused on the development of a proprietary circulatory assist technology for the...
CircuLite Closes $20 million...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Charles Botti, Jr., MD; Mitchell J. Silver, DO
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
New Questions
Free-standing Cath Labs
I am looking for data on free-standing diagnostic cath lab expense benchmarks. I need this information for the purposes of doing a business evaluation of a cath lab. I was wondering if anyone has this...
New Questions
Free-standing Cath Labs
I am looking for data on free-standing diagnostic cath lab expense benchmarks. I need this information for the purposes of doing a business evaluation of a cath lab. I was wondering if anyone has this...
New Questions
Free-standing...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
Charles Botti, Jr., MD; Mitchell J. Silver, DO
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Todd Ginapp, EMT-P, RCIS, FSICP
This is a popular question and has been asked at nearly every review course in which I have participated. While the exact scope of what you need to know about the catheters referenced on the exam is too much information for this short...
This is a popular question and has been asked at nearly every review course in which I have participated. While the exact scope of what you need to know about the catheters referenced on the exam is too much information for this short...
This is a popular question and...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Shirly Dawson Coffey, CVT
This is a story of the marriage between two very different worlds; a modern, cutting-edge cath lab and a gracious classical guitar by the name of Carmen. It also illustrates the value of such a marriage. Of how two such opposite worlds...
This is a story of the marriage between two very different worlds; a modern, cutting-edge cath lab and a gracious classical guitar by the name of Carmen. It also illustrates the value of such a marriage. Of how two such opposite worlds...
This is a story of the marriage...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
The Emerald Coast Chapter
The Emerald Coast Chapter would like to welcome all cardiovascular professionals in Northwest Florida to join us for our local chapter meetings. Please contact us at angiermark (at) aol. com
See you soon!
Angie...
The Emerald Coast Chapter
The Emerald Coast Chapter would like to welcome all cardiovascular professionals in Northwest Florida to join us for our local chapter meetings. Please contact us at angiermark (at) aol. com
See you soon!
Angie...
The Emerald Coast Chapter
The...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
New Questions
Free-standing Cath Labs
I am looking for data on free-standing diagnostic cath lab expense benchmarks. I need this information for the purposes of doing a business evaluation of a cath lab. I was wondering if anyone has this...
New Questions
Free-standing Cath Labs
I am looking for data on free-standing diagnostic cath lab expense benchmarks. I need this information for the purposes of doing a business evaluation of a cath lab. I was wondering if anyone has this...
New Questions
Free-standing...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Industry Insider
06/19/2008
SPIRIT III Clinical Trial Demonstrates Positive Performance for Both Taxus® and Promus Drug-Eluting Stent Systems
Results of the pivotal SPIRIT III clinical trial reaffirmed prior safety and efficacy data for the Taxus® Express2...
SPIRIT III Clinical Trial Demonstrates Positive Performance for Both Taxus® and Promus Drug-Eluting Stent Systems
Results of the pivotal SPIRIT III clinical trial reaffirmed prior safety and efficacy data for the Taxus® Express2...
SPIRIT III Clinical Trial...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA
Held at SCAI’s 30th Annual Scientific Sessions in Orlando, Florida, on Wednesday, May 9, the Judkins Cardiac Imaging Symposium offers a comprehensive mix of both fundamentals and innovations from the basic need-to-know imaging facts and...
Held at SCAI’s 30th Annual Scientific Sessions in Orlando, Florida, on Wednesday, May 9, the Judkins Cardiac Imaging Symposium offers a comprehensive mix of both fundamentals and innovations from the basic need-to-know imaging facts and...
Held at SCAI’s 30th Annual...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Jack P. Chen, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FCCP
Case Presentation and Description of Technique
A 63-year-old gentleman underwent diagnostic cardiac catheterization at an outside hospital for acute coronary syndrome. He was found to have an eccentric, 95% right coronary AOL with preserved...
Case Presentation and Description of Technique
A 63-year-old gentleman underwent diagnostic cardiac catheterization at an outside hospital for acute coronary syndrome. He was found to have an eccentric, 95% right coronary AOL with preserved...
Case Presentation and...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Dean J. Kereiakes, MD, FACC, MSCAI
Drug-eluting stents (DES) were introduced in 2002. Why is this technology considered revolutionary for the treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD)?
The primary reason DES have such a major impact on the treatment of CAD is the marked...
Drug-eluting stents (DES) were introduced in 2002. Why is this technology considered revolutionary for the treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD)?
The primary reason DES have such a major impact on the treatment of CAD is the marked...
Drug-eluting stents (DES) were...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Alan D. Troy, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Discussion
In the aftermath of two presentations on the long-term safety and efficacy of drug-eluting stents (DESs) both presented in the fall of 2006 at the World Congress of Cardiology in Barcelona, Spain there have been passionate...
Discussion
In the aftermath of two presentations on the long-term safety and efficacy of drug-eluting stents (DESs) both presented in the fall of 2006 at the World Congress of Cardiology in Barcelona, Spain there have been passionate...
Discussion
In the aftermath of...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
North Cypress Medical Center, Cypress, Texas
North Cypress Medical Center, Cypress...
Why did you choose to work in the invasive cardiology field?
My background is in critical care nursing and I loved working on the heart in the SICU. I wanted to learn more and challenge myself, so I applied to work in the cath lab.
Can...
Why did you choose to work in the invasive cardiology field?
My background is in critical care nursing and I loved working on the heart in the SICU. I wanted to learn more and challenge myself, so I applied to work in the cath lab.
Can...
Why did you choose to work in...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
Brenda McCulloch, RN, MSN, CNS; Nancy Diehl, RN, MSN, CNS
2007 Course
For the upcoming 2007 course, we have reformatted the course content from past years. What was initially a 5-day program is now a 4-day program, with 8 CEs awarded each day. Lectures are updated so that current trends and...
2007 Course
For the upcoming 2007 course, we have reformatted the course content from past years. What was initially a 5-day program is now a 4-day program, with 8 CEs awarded each day. Lectures are updated so that current trends and...
2007 Course
For the upcoming...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Spotlight
06/19/2008
Glenn Thompson, RT(R), BS
What type of procedures are performed at your facility?
We perform pacemaker and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implants, diagnostic and therapeutic EP studies, diagnostic cardiac caths and interventions, heart biopsies, and...
What type of procedures are performed at your facility?
We perform pacemaker and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implants, diagnostic and therapeutic EP studies, diagnostic cardiac caths and interventions, heart biopsies, and...
What type of procedures are...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Rajesh M. Dave, MD, FACC, FSCAI
The use of cold saline flush during laser atherectomy, still done today, was a critical addition. Laser does not work very well in a field that is filled with blood, because the blood absorbs the laser energy and reduces the effectiveness of...
The use of cold saline flush during laser atherectomy, still done today, was a critical addition. Laser does not work very well in a field that is filled with blood, because the blood absorbs the laser energy and reduces the effectiveness of...
The use of cold saline flush...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Todd Chitwood, RCIS, FSICP
The SICP (Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals) Representative to the Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility, and Excellence in Medical Imaging (CARE Bill) Alliance attended the recent meeting concerning this bill in Washington,...
The SICP (Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals) Representative to the Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility, and Excellence in Medical Imaging (CARE Bill) Alliance attended the recent meeting concerning this bill in Washington,...
The SICP (Society of Invasive...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
