Volume 17 - Issue 8 - August, 2009
Clinical Review
08/11/2009
Lars Søndergaard, MD, DMSc; Carl G.H. Dahlof, MD, PhD; Peter H. Hannam
Abstract
During the last decade, patent foramen ovale (PFO) and intermittent or permanent right-to-left shunting of venous blood has been proposed to play a pathogenetic role in a number of disorders. This review covers the most common and...
Abstract
During the last decade, patent foramen ovale (PFO) and intermittent or permanent right-to-left shunting of venous blood has been proposed to play a pathogenetic role in a number of disorders. This review covers the most common and...
Abstract
During the last...
08/11/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Review
08/11/2009
Lars Søndergaard, MD, DMSc; Carl G.H. Dahlof, MD, PhD; Peter H. Hannam
Abstract
During the last decade, patent foramen ovale (PFO) and intermittent or permanent right-to-left shunting of venous blood has been proposed to play a pathogenetic role in a number of disorders. This review covers the most common and...
Abstract
During the last decade, patent foramen ovale (PFO) and intermittent or permanent right-to-left shunting of venous blood has been proposed to play a pathogenetic role in a number of disorders. This review covers the most common and...
Abstract
During the last...
08/11/2009
Cath Lab Digest
System Spotlight
08/11/2009
Jon E. Jenkins, RN, RCIS
Could you share some of your experience with the Series IV physiomonitoring and information management system at Branson Heart Center in Branson, Missouri?
Branson Heart Center was an outpatient cath lab that was privately owned by a group...
Could you share some of your experience with the Series IV physiomonitoring and information management system at Branson Heart Center in Branson, Missouri?
Branson Heart Center was an outpatient cath lab that was privately owned by a group...
Could you share some of your...
08/11/2009
Cath Lab Digest
08/11/2009
Joan Visco, RN; Gail Hood Irwin, BSN, CEN
What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members?
Albert Einstein Medical Center (AEMC) is located in the city of Philadelphia. The AEMC cath lab consists of 3 cardiac laboratories capable of performing a wide range...
What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members?
Albert Einstein Medical Center (AEMC) is located in the city of Philadelphia. The AEMC cath lab consists of 3 cardiac laboratories capable of performing a wide range...
What is the size of your cath...
08/11/2009
Cath Lab Digest
08/11/2009
Shirley C. Bata, BS, RT(R)(CV)
One year after the June 2008 epic flood that overwhelmed Cedar Rapids, Iowa and forcd the evacuation of Mercy Medical Center, our hospital is back. But all employees, including our cath lab crew, carry vivid memories of our long, difficult...
One year after the June 2008 epic flood that overwhelmed Cedar Rapids, Iowa and forcd the evacuation of Mercy Medical Center, our hospital is back. But all employees, including our cath lab crew, carry vivid memories of our long, difficult...
One year after the June 2008...
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Cath Lab Digest
Feature
08/11/2009
Shirley C. Bata, BS, RT(R)(CV)
One year after the June 2008 epic flood that overwhelmed Cedar Rapids, Iowa and forcd the evacuation of Mercy Medical Center, our hospital is back. But all employees, including our cath lab crew, carry vivid memories of our long, difficult...
One year after the June 2008 epic flood that overwhelmed Cedar Rapids, Iowa and forcd the evacuation of Mercy Medical Center, our hospital is back. But all employees, including our cath lab crew, carry vivid memories of our long, difficult...
One year after the June 2008...
08/11/2009
Cath Lab Digest
ACVP Management Corner
08/11/2009
Tim Kimball
With high volumes, cost and reimbursement, successful cardiology programs drive the revenue in the hospital. Declining reimbursement and increasing expenses make our jobs managing even tougher. During these tough economic times, we have to...
With high volumes, cost and reimbursement, successful cardiology programs drive the revenue in the hospital. Declining reimbursement and increasing expenses make our jobs managing even tougher. During these tough economic times, we have to...
With high volumes, cost and...
08/11/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Update
08/11/2009
Donna Gagne, RCIS
The role nitric oxide plays in the regulation of pressures in the pulmonary artery is a relatively new discovery. This article will examine the history of nitric oxide as a vasodilator, the new classifications of pulmonary hypertension and...
The role nitric oxide plays in the regulation of pressures in the pulmonary artery is a relatively new discovery. This article will examine the history of nitric oxide as a vasodilator, the new classifications of pulmonary hypertension and...
The role nitric oxide plays in...
08/11/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Education
08/11/2009
A Proposal for Core Curriculum for Training of Advanced Level Cardiology Specialist Assistants for the Performance of Diagnostic and Interventional Carotid and Peripheral Procedures: Part III
Report of the International Society of Advanced...
A Proposal for Core Curriculum for Training of Advanced Level Cardiology Specialist Assistants for the Performance of Diagnostic and Interventional Carotid and Peripheral Procedures: Part III
Report of the International Society of Advanced...
A Proposal for Core Curriculum...
08/11/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Editor's Corner
08/11/2009
Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA
In recent years, studies of multivessel coronary angioplasty randomized patients between surgery and intervention. The fairness of this randomization assignment has become a subject of great interest, since it may influence outcomes. One of...
In recent years, studies of multivessel coronary angioplasty randomized patients between surgery and intervention. The fairness of this randomization assignment has become a subject of great interest, since it may influence outcomes. One of...
In recent years, studies of...
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Cath Lab Digest
