Volume 19 - Issue 3 - March, 2011
Cath Lab Spotlight
03/02/2011
Beth Ferguson
Can you tell us about your cath lab?
The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital Cardiac Cath Lab has 6 cardiovascular labs, 1 electrophysiology lab and 2 peripheral vascular labs. We have 50 staff members, including management, made up of a mix...
Can you tell us about your cath lab?
The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital Cardiac Cath Lab has 6 cardiovascular labs, 1 electrophysiology lab and 2 peripheral vascular labs. We have 50 staff members, including management, made up of a mix...
Can you tell us about your cath...
03/02/2011
Cath Lab Digest
In the Lab
03/02/2011
Charles E. Chambers, MD
Tell us about the creation of the new guidelines.
It was actually in 2006, after completing the 1992 infection control guidelines update, that the SCAI Lab Standards Committee (now the Quality Improvement Committee), looked at renewing the...
Tell us about the creation of the new guidelines.
It was actually in 2006, after completing the 1992 infection control guidelines update, that the SCAI Lab Standards Committee (now the Quality Improvement Committee), looked at renewing the...
Tell us about the creation of...
03/02/2011
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Spotlight
03/02/2011
Beth Ferguson
Can you tell us about your cath lab?
The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital Cardiac Cath Lab has 6 cardiovascular labs, 1 electrophysiology lab and 2 peripheral vascular labs. We have 50 staff members, including management, made up of a mix...
Can you tell us about your cath lab?
The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital Cardiac Cath Lab has 6 cardiovascular labs, 1 electrophysiology lab and 2 peripheral vascular labs. We have 50 staff members, including management, made up of a mix...
Can you tell us about your cath...
03/02/2011
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Update
03/03/2011
Michael S. Lee, MD, DPM, FACFAS, FACC, FSCAI
Orthotopic heart transplantation is an effective therapy for patients with end-stage congestive heart failure.1 Complications and comorbidities associated with orthotopic heart transplant and the medications needed to prevent rejection...
Orthotopic heart transplantation is an effective therapy for patients with end-stage congestive heart failure.1 Complications and comorbidities associated with orthotopic heart transplant and the medications needed to prevent rejection...
Orthotopic heart transplantation...
03/03/2011
Cath Lab Digest
Case Report
03/02/2011
Santhosh Reddy Mannem, MD
Abstract
Implantable port-catheter systems are being used increasingly for long-term intravenous therapy. Intracardiac catheter embolization is a serious complication and most reported cases have been right-sided embolizations. Left-sided...
Abstract
Implantable port-catheter systems are being used increasingly for long-term intravenous therapy. Intracardiac catheter embolization is a serious complication and most reported cases have been right-sided embolizations. Left-sided...
Abstract
Implantable...
03/02/2011
Cath Lab Digest
What Do You Think?
03/03/2011
Reader-Submitted Questions Answered by Readers
Reader-Submitted Questions Answered b...
03/03/2011
Cath Lab Digest
03/03/2011
Dale C. Wortham, MD
Tell us about this new femoral artery access device from Arstasis. Why were you initially interested?
As physicians, we are always looking for a better solution for common clinical issues we face in the cath lab. Though there are some...
Tell us about this new femoral artery access device from Arstasis. Why were you initially interested?
As physicians, we are always looking for a better solution for common clinical issues we face in the cath lab. Though there are some...
Tell us about this new femoral...
03/03/2011
Cath Lab Digest
Case Report
03/03/2011
Jack P. Chen, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FCCP
Case Report
A 63-year-old patient had undergone robotic totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass (TECAB) involving the left internal mammary artery (LIMA) to the left anterior descending artery (LAD) 2 years prior. Subsequently, the patient...
Case Report
A 63-year-old patient had undergone robotic totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass (TECAB) involving the left internal mammary artery (LIMA) to the left anterior descending artery (LAD) 2 years prior. Subsequently, the patient...
Case Report
A 63-year-old...
03/03/2011
Cath Lab Digest
Transitions
03/03/2011
Adele Serio, MSN, RN, RCIS; Scott Serio, RCIS
Our History Transitioning From Private Labs to Hospitals
Adele Serio, RN, RCIS, has been employed at Colorado Heart Institute (CHI) for 20 years. CHI originally opened its doors in 1987, built by a group of entrepreneurs who could envision...
Our History Transitioning From Private Labs to Hospitals
Adele Serio, RN, RCIS, has been employed at Colorado Heart Institute (CHI) for 20 years. CHI originally opened its doors in 1987, built by a group of entrepreneurs who could envision...
Our History Transitioning From...
03/03/2011
Cath Lab Digest
03/03/2011
Orlando Marrero, RCIS, MBA
Question #1: Can you do an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) with the transradial approach?
Case performed by Zaheed Tai, DO, Winter Haven Hospital, Winter Haven, Florida.
An 84-year-old female was admitted to the emergency department and...
Question #1: Can you do an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) with the transradial approach?
Case performed by Zaheed Tai, DO, Winter Haven Hospital, Winter Haven, Florida.
An 84-year-old female was admitted to the emergency department and...
Question #1: Can you do an acute...
03/03/2011
Cath Lab Digest
