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Volume 16 - Issue 11 - November, 2008

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
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
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
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
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
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