Volume 17 - Issue 12 - December, 2009
Patient Safety
12/09/2009
John T. Coppola, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Dr. Coppola has been teaching the transradial technique for five years.
How long have you been performing transradial procedures?
I began performing transradial procedures in November 2003.
Why learn and how did it come...
Dr. Coppola has been teaching the transradial technique for five years.
How long have you been performing transradial procedures?
I began performing transradial procedures in November 2003.
Why learn and how did it come...
Dr. Coppola has been teaching...
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Spotlight
12/09/2009
Pam Egan, RN, BSN
What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members?
Ed Roberson Heart Center cath lab includes three cath rooms, an interventional radiology room and a 12-bed pre/post chest pain unit.
Staff consists...
What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members?
Ed Roberson Heart Center cath lab includes three cath rooms, an interventional radiology room and a 12-bed pre/post chest pain unit.
Staff consists...
What is the size of your cath...
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Management
12/09/2009
Dennis L. Kaiser, AIA, NCARB
Consolidating catheterization and surgical units is an economical solution, once cultural objections are overcome.
The economic case for consolidating a hospital’s catheterization and surgical units, is, in many ways, a no-brainer.
In an...
Consolidating catheterization and surgical units is an economical solution, once cultural objections are overcome.
The economic case for consolidating a hospital’s catheterization and surgical units, is, in many ways, a no-brainer.
In an...
Consolidating catheterization...
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Morale
12/09/2009
Healthcare is an incredibly rewarding field. Rich Bluni, RN, author of Inspired Nurse, reveals methods that will help you look at your job in a whole new (positive) way.
Anyone who’s been in healthcare for more than five minutes can tell...
Healthcare is an incredibly rewarding field. Rich Bluni, RN, author of Inspired Nurse, reveals methods that will help you look at your job in a whole new (positive) way.
Anyone who’s been in healthcare for more than five minutes can tell...
Healthcare is an incredibly...
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
12/09/2009
Juan F. Granada, MD
What is unique about the vProtect™ Luminal Shield?
This stent is part of a new generation of self-expandable nitinol stents. In this particular stent design, the radial force has been calculated to achieve less chronic outward force — an...
What is unique about the vProtect™ Luminal Shield?
This stent is part of a new generation of self-expandable nitinol stents. In this particular stent design, the radial force has been calculated to achieve less chronic outward force — an...
What is unique about the...
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Editor's Corner
12/09/2009
Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA
I was recently asked at our Cath Lab Basics 2009 course in Seattle, “What can the techs/nurses do to introduce a new and better way of doing something in the lab to the physicians and ultimately to the patients?” For example, how does one...
I was recently asked at our Cath Lab Basics 2009 course in Seattle, “What can the techs/nurses do to introduce a new and better way of doing something in the lab to the physicians and ultimately to the patients?” For example, how does one...
I was recently asked at our Cath...
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
What Do You Think?
12/09/2009
Multiple new and ongoing questions from readers. Your responses are welcome!
Answer or pose a question at cathlabdigest@aol.com
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Questions!
Post Recovery Situation
I am interested in knowing what the post...
Multiple new and ongoing questions from readers. Your responses are welcome!
Answer or pose a question at cathlabdigest@aol.com
_______________________________
Questions!
Post Recovery Situation
I am interested in knowing what the post...
Multiple new and ongoing...
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
12/09/2009
Carol Humble, RN
Introduction
by Scott Hardin, Director of Cardiovascular Services
When it comes to caring for patients, Carol Humble, cath lab inventory manager at Memorial Health Care System in Chattanooga, Tenessee, knows what it takes. After 14 years of...
Introduction
by Scott Hardin, Director of Cardiovascular Services
When it comes to caring for patients, Carol Humble, cath lab inventory manager at Memorial Health Care System in Chattanooga, Tenessee, knows what it takes. After 14 years of...
Introduction
by Scott Hardin,...
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Education
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
ACVP Management Corner
12/09/2009
John R. Florio
Picture yourself at your hospital’s employee benefits fair. In front of you is the funny guy from the cafeteria. Ahead of him is the CEO’s secretary. Behind you are the hospital’s cardiologists.
The hospital’s cardiologists?
Ten years ago,...
Picture yourself at your hospital’s employee benefits fair. In front of you is the funny guy from the cafeteria. Ahead of him is the CEO’s secretary. Behind you are the hospital’s cardiologists.
The hospital’s cardiologists?
Ten years ago,...
Picture yourself at your...
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
