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Volume 16 - Issue 11 - November, 2008

Clinical and Industry News
Clinical and Industry News
11/06/2008
Mouse Study Shows Fetal Heart Can Grow Cells to Repair Disease Damage A recent study in mice shows the ability of the fetal heart to grow healthy cells to compensate for cardiac tissue lost to disease. The mice are normal at birth and their...
Mouse Study Shows Fetal Heart Can Grow Cells to Repair Disease Damage A recent study in mice shows the ability of the fetal heart to grow healthy cells to compensate for cardiac tissue lost to disease. The mice are normal at birth and their...
Mouse Study Shows Fetal Heart...
11/06/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Discussion Group
What Do You Think?
11/06/2008
Multiple new and ongoing questions from readers. Your responses are welcome! Answer or pose a question at cathlabdigest@aol.com Inside the Cath Lab What do other labs do about hats, masks, etc., for setting up tables for cath/PTCA...
Multiple new and ongoing questions from readers. Your responses are welcome! Answer or pose a question at cathlabdigest@aol.com Inside the Cath Lab What do other labs do about hats, masks, etc., for setting up tables for cath/PTCA...
Multiple new and ongoing...
11/06/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
11/06/2008
September 11, 2008 Dear Editor, RE: Article by Jackson Thatcher, MD, FACC, entitled “Groin Bleeds and Other Hemorrhagic Complications of Cardiac Catheterization: A List of Relative Issues” (Cath Lab Digest March 2008, Volume 16.) Available...
September 11, 2008 Dear Editor, RE: Article by Jackson Thatcher, MD, FACC, entitled “Groin Bleeds and Other Hemorrhagic Complications of Cardiac Catheterization: A List of Relative Issues” (Cath Lab Digest March 2008, Volume 16.) Available...
September 11, 2008 Dear...
11/06/2008
Cath Lab Digest
SICP Section
November 2008 Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP) News
11/06/2008
SICP News Renew for 2009 today at www.sicp.com. Please make every effort to renew your membership prior to January 31, 2009. Remember, your membership is based on a calendar year! If you have questions regarding your membership, please...
SICP News Renew for 2009 today at www.sicp.com. Please make every effort to renew your membership prior to January 31, 2009. Remember, your membership is based on a calendar year! If you have questions regarding your membership, please...
SICP News Renew for 2009 today...
11/06/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Editor's Corner
What’s Your Approach to New Technology? Early Adopter or Prisoner of Tribal Customs?
11/06/2008
Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA
Technology and new information come to the cath lab nearly every month. The use of new stents and techniques in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (for example, bifurcation management or thrombus aspiration methods) continues to evolve....
Technology and new information come to the cath lab nearly every month. The use of new stents and techniques in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (for example, bifurcation management or thrombus aspiration methods) continues to evolve....
Technology and new information...
11/06/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Meeting Update
Selected News from Transcatheter Cardiovascular Interventions (TCT): October 12-17, 2008, Washington, D.C.
11/06/2008
Medtronic: Danish Study, SORT OUT III, Looks at TLR, Stent Thrombosis for Endeavor® and Cypher® Stents Medtronic, Inc. announced that the target lesion revascularization (TLR) rate for the company’s Endeavor® drug-eluting stent in the...
Medtronic: Danish Study, SORT OUT III, Looks at TLR, Stent Thrombosis for Endeavor® and Cypher® Stents Medtronic, Inc. announced that the target lesion revascularization (TLR) rate for the company’s Endeavor® drug-eluting stent in the...
Medtronic: Danish Study, SORT...
11/06/2008
Cath Lab Digest
ACVP Management Corner
The Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist (RCIS) Credential
11/05/2008
Charles Gibaut, RCP, RCIS
Recognition & Support through the Alliance of Cardiovascular Professionals (ACVP) I have been in and out of a cardiac catheterization laboratory since 1969. I received my start in the Navy by going through their cardiopulmonary technologist...
Recognition & Support through the Alliance of Cardiovascular Professionals (ACVP) I have been in and out of a cardiac catheterization laboratory since 1969. I received my start in the Navy by going through their cardiopulmonary technologist...
Recognition & Support through...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Images
The Broken Heart Within
11/05/2008
Refat Jabara, MD, FACC; Jack P. Chen, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FCCP
A 50-year-old male, chronic crack-cocaine abuser, presented with angina after a “binge.” He had undergone left anterior descending drug-eluting stent deployment 3 weeks earlier for myocardial infarction and admitted to medication...
A 50-year-old male, chronic crack-cocaine abuser, presented with angina after a “binge.” He had undergone left anterior descending drug-eluting stent deployment 3 weeks earlier for myocardial infarction and admitted to medication...
A 50-year-old male, chronic...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Meeting Update
Hurricane Ike Threatens, but the 9th Annual New Cardiovascular Horizons Conference Goes On
11/05/2008
Jeffery C. Mays, RN, ASN, CVT; Betty Brooks, RN, ASN, CEN, CVT; Phyllis C. Williams, RCSA, RN, CEN, TCCN, ASN, CVT; Charles Ody Williams, BS , RCIS, CPFT, CCT, FSICP, BSRS; Neil E. Holtz, BS , RCIS, EMT-P, CVT; Lorena Hendry, PA-C, BS ; Terry Scott, RN, BSN, CVT
The Cardiovascular Institute of the South held the 9th Annual New Cardiovascular Horizons and Management of the Diabetic Foot and Wound Healing Conference at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, from September 10-13,...
The Cardiovascular Institute of the South held the 9th Annual New Cardiovascular Horizons and Management of the Diabetic Foot and Wound Healing Conference at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, from September 10-13,...
The Cardiovascular Institute of...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Your Path to Success: Expert Advice
Investments in Leadership: The Value of Interim Management to the Cardiac Cath Lab
11/05/2008
Ross Swanson
Most hospital hospital leaders appreciate the difficulty in recruiting and retaining talented individuals to lead their cardiovascular programs. It is particularly difficult to find leaders for specialty areas such as the cardiac...
Most hospital hospital leaders appreciate the difficulty in recruiting and retaining talented individuals to lead their cardiovascular programs. It is particularly difficult to find leaders for specialty areas such as the cardiac...
Most hospital hospital leaders...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
New Ideas
Female Bed Urination in the Cath Lab: Let’s Upgrade!
11/05/2008
Evelyn Korjack, RN
Four years ago, I watched quizzically as a PACU nurse neatly placed an emesis basin and Yankauer suction beneath my post cardiac cath female’s perineum. She did this in response to the patient’s request for a bedpan. I was stunned! There was...
Four years ago, I watched quizzically as a PACU nurse neatly placed an emesis basin and Yankauer suction beneath my post cardiac cath female’s perineum. She did this in response to the patient’s request for a bedpan. I was stunned! There was...
Four years ago, I watched...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Ask the Clinical Instructor
Ask the Clinical Instructor: A Q&A column for those new to the Cath Lab
11/05/2008
Todd Ginapp, EMT-P, RCIS, FSICP
There are two very important tools in the cath lab that are often misunderstood. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and fractional flow reserve (FFR) analysis are two totally separate tools looking at two different things. Basic comprehension of...
There are two very important tools in the cath lab that are often misunderstood. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and fractional flow reserve (FFR) analysis are two totally separate tools looking at two different things. Basic comprehension of...
There are two very important...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Optimizing Cath Lab Operation
11/05/2008
Jeffrey A. Breall, MD, PhD
Today’s cardiac catheterization laboratory must be many things to many people: fast and efficient for cardiologists, user-friendly for nurses and technologists, cost-effective for administrators and, most of all, expeditious and accurate for...
Today’s cardiac catheterization laboratory must be many things to many people: fast and efficient for cardiologists, user-friendly for nurses and technologists, cost-effective for administrators and, most of all, expeditious and accurate for...
Today’s cardiac catheterization...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Keeping Pace With a Blog
11/05/2008
Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
Today, more than ever, the Internet has become an indispensable source of health news and information for both patients and physicians. As patients find they are increasingly responsible for larger portions of their healthcare bill, many turn...
Today, more than ever, the Internet has become an indispensable source of health news and information for both patients and physicians. As patients find they are increasingly responsible for larger portions of their healthcare bill, many turn...
Today, more than ever, the...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
10-Minute Interview
The Ten-Minute Interview with… Cindy Dirkes, RN, MSN
11/05/2008
Cindy Dirkes, RN, MSN
I had a number of years of nursing experience in pediatric critical care that led to an advance practice position in pediatric invasive cardiology. As that niche relegates itself to larger metropolitan centers, I entered into the world of...
I had a number of years of nursing experience in pediatric critical care that led to an advance practice position in pediatric invasive cardiology. As that niche relegates itself to larger metropolitan centers, I entered into the world of...
I had a number of years of...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
The PERSEUS Trial
11/05/2008
Dean J. Kereiakes, MD, FACC, MSCAI
This monthly column in Cath Lab Digest reviews important points of distinction in drug-eluting stents, from characteristics to techniques, to provide valuable and relevant information about this technology. Dr. Kereiakes received his...
This monthly column in Cath Lab Digest reviews important points of distinction in drug-eluting stents, from characteristics to techniques, to provide valuable and relevant information about this technology. Dr. Kereiakes received his...
This monthly column in Cath Lab...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Commentary
Stemi Interventions: Commentary
11/05/2008
Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, MBA, is studying ST-elevation myocardial infarction interventions in his work with short door-to-balloon time primary PCI and the Single INdividual Community Experience REgistry for Primary PCI (SINCERE) database at 5...
Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, MBA, is studying ST-elevation myocardial infarction interventions in his work with short door-to-balloon time primary PCI and the Single INdividual Community Experience REgistry for Primary PCI (SINCERE) database at 5...
Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, MBA, is...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
STEMI Interventions
Code 42: A Quality Initiative Program for Improving Door-to-Balloon Times in ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction
11/05/2008
Katherine P. Kelly, RN, BSN, MSN
ABSTRACT: Resurrection Medical Center implemented an initiative to address patients presenting with an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). This facility followed their performance improvement process using evidence-based strategies in...
ABSTRACT: Resurrection Medical Center implemented an initiative to address patients presenting with an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). This facility followed their performance improvement process using evidence-based strategies in...
ABSTRACT: Resurrection Medical...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Challenging Cases
Extraction of Challenging Intracoronary Thrombi
11/05/2008
Seif S. El-Jack, MBBS, MD; John A. Ormiston, MB, MD, MBChB; Suwatchai Pornratanarangsi, MD; Mark W.I. Webster, MD, MBChB; Duncan McNab, MD; James T. Stewart, MD; Peter N. Ruygrok, MD, MB, FRACP, FESC
Multi-Device Strategies Using Guide Catheters, Distal Vascular Protection Devices and Aspiration Catheters Management of patients with extensive intracoronary thrombi remains a frontier of interventional cardiology. An initial conservative...
Multi-Device Strategies Using Guide Catheters, Distal Vascular Protection Devices and Aspiration Catheters Management of patients with extensive intracoronary thrombi remains a frontier of interventional cardiology. An initial conservative...
Multi-Device Strategies Using...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Use of the SafeSeal Hemostasis Patch Following Coronary Intervention
11/05/2008
Craig R. Narins, MD; Vicki Rocco, RN, MSN
Managed care has heightened health care professionals’ awareness of the need to provide cost-effective care without compromising quality, a goal that is typically accomplished by providing evidence-based best practice(s). Management of the...
Managed care has heightened health care professionals’ awareness of the need to provide cost-effective care without compromising quality, a goal that is typically accomplished by providing evidence-based best practice(s). Management of the...
Managed care has heightened...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
LUMEN 2009: The World’s Premier STEMI Meeting: The Symposium on Optimal Treatments for Acute MI
11/05/2008
LUMEN takes place February 26-28, 2009, at the Loews Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. More information is available online at www.LumenAMI.com Cath Lab Digest talks with meeting director Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, and LUMEN’s four co-directors,...
LUMEN takes place February 26-28, 2009, at the Loews Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. More information is available online at www.LumenAMI.com Cath Lab Digest talks with meeting director Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, and LUMEN’s four co-directors,...
LUMEN takes place February...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Case Report
Complex SVG PCI in Acute Coronary Syndrome: Case 3 of a 5-part series
11/05/2008
Rajesh M. Dave, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Utilization of laser ablation and intragraft glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors via ClearWay therapeutic infusion catheter to improve procedural safety We describe a complex thrombotic saphenous vein graft (SVG) percutaneous coronary...
Utilization of laser ablation and intragraft glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors via ClearWay therapeutic infusion catheter to improve procedural safety We describe a complex thrombotic saphenous vein graft (SVG) percutaneous coronary...
Utilization of laser ablation...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
My Hurricane Diary: September 1st, 2008
11/04/2008
Deepak Thekkoott, MD
9:30 am. September 1st, a day I will never forget. It was Labor Day. It started as a very windy day with a lot of cloud cover. The sun was nowhere to be seen. I had just started my rounds. Standing next to a patient in the ICU, I called...
9:30 am. September 1st, a day I will never forget. It was Labor Day. It started as a very windy day with a lot of cloud cover. The sun was nowhere to be seen. I had just started my rounds. Standing next to a patient in the ICU, I called...
9:30 am. September 1st, a day I...
11/04/2008
Cath Lab Digest
The Safety of Drug-Eluting Stents: What the Trial Data and Real-World Experience Tell Us
11/04/2008
Kenneth A. Gorski, RN, RCIS, BSN
Abstract: Data presented at the 2006 World Congress of Cardiology questioned the safety of drug-eluting stents (DES), causing a notable shift in clinical practice patterns in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI)....
Abstract: Data presented at the 2006 World Congress of Cardiology questioned the safety of drug-eluting stents (DES), causing a notable shift in clinical practice patterns in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI)....
Abstract: Data presented at the...
11/04/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Spotlight
South Carolina Heart Center
11/04/2008
Jack Reese, CVT; Stacey Rosbrugh, RN
What is the size of your cath lab staff and facility? South Carolina Heart Center is a freestanding outpatient facility, privately owned by our physician partners. We have 24 cardiologists; six are interventionalists. South Carolina...
What is the size of your cath lab staff and facility? South Carolina Heart Center is a freestanding outpatient facility, privately owned by our physician partners. We have 24 cardiologists; six are interventionalists. South Carolina...
What is the size of your cath...
11/04/2008
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Vivasure's PerQseal® Elite system uses a proprietary bioabsorbable patch to seal large-bore (up to 26 F) arteriotomies and venotomies from inside the vessel, offering a sutureless, fully absorbable solution for structural heart and...
Vivasure's PerQseal® Elite...
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In the “Mammography and Breast Arterial Calcification Trial at Mount Sinai,” doctors are sending letters to patients with high breast artery calcification levels, urging them to see a cardiologist or other doctor for further evaluation to...
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