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Volume 20 - Issue 3 - March 2012

An Overview of Chronic Kidney Disease and Useful Strategies for Clinical Management
03/02/2012
Richard J. Merschen, EdS, MS, RT(R)(CV), RCIS; Amanda Robbins, RCIS, RT
IntroductionThe kidneys, located in the retroperitoneal space in the abdomen, are vital for patient health. They process several hundred liters of fluid a day and remove around two liters of waste products from the bloodstream. The volume of...
IntroductionThe kidneys, located in the retroperitoneal space in the abdomen, are vital for patient health. They process several hundred liters of fluid a day and remove around two liters of waste products from the bloodstream. The volume of...
IntroductionThe kidneys, located...
03/02/2012
Cath Lab Digest
Structuring a Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Program
03/02/2012
Stephanie Wasek
This article features an interview with Angela G. Riley, RT, executive director of the Dallas Valve Institute and Cardiopulmonary Research Science and Technology Institute (CRSTI) in Dallas, TX; Jennifer Ledbetter, RN, BSN, the director of...
This article features an interview with Angela G. Riley, RT, executive director of the Dallas Valve Institute and Cardiopulmonary Research Science and Technology Institute (CRSTI) in Dallas, TX; Jennifer Ledbetter, RN, BSN, the director of...
This article features an...
03/02/2012
Cath Lab Digest
FAME II: High-Risk, Stable CAD Patients Randomized to FFR-Guided PCI with OMT vs. OMT Alone
03/02/2012
William F. Fearon, MD
An interim analysis of the FAME II trial found a highly statistically significant reduction in the need for hospital readmission and urgent revascularization when fractional flow reserve (FFR) was used to direct treatment. As a result, the...
An interim analysis of the FAME II trial found a highly statistically significant reduction in the need for hospital readmission and urgent revascularization when fractional flow reserve (FFR) was used to direct treatment. As a result, the...
An interim analysis of the FAME...
03/02/2012
Cath Lab Digest
Spotlight Interview: Oregon Health & Science University
03/02/2012
Constance Jones, RT(R)
Tell us about your cath lab.Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is a 537-bed facility located in the heart of downtown Portland, Oregon. We are the only academic medical institution within the state of Oregon and our hospital has been...
Tell us about your cath lab.Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is a 537-bed facility located in the heart of downtown Portland, Oregon. We are the only academic medical institution within the state of Oregon and our hospital has been...
Tell us about your cath...
03/02/2012
Cath Lab Digest
Percutaneous Paravalvular Leak Closure in the Aortic Position
03/02/2012
Troy Trayer, DO; Jon C. George, MD, MBA; Richard C. Kovach, MD
Case 1An 83-year-old male, with history of a bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement (Medtronic Mosaic #25) and coronary artery bypass grafting approximately eight months earlier, presented with severe shortness of breath secondary to acute...
Case 1An 83-year-old male, with history of a bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement (Medtronic Mosaic #25) and coronary artery bypass grafting approximately eight months earlier, presented with severe shortness of breath secondary to acute...
Case 1An 83-year-old male, with...
03/02/2012
Cath Lab Digest
The Cardiovascular Hybrid Surgical Room: Evolving into the Future of Cardiovascular Surgery
03/02/2012
Jacques Kpodonu, MD
This article is adapted by the author from Kpodonu J. The Cardiovascular Hybrid Room. In: Kpodonu J. Manual of Thoracic Endoaortic Surgery. London, England: Springer; 2010.The last few years have seen a paradigm shift in the treatment of...
This article is adapted by the author from Kpodonu J. The Cardiovascular Hybrid Room. In: Kpodonu J. Manual of Thoracic Endoaortic Surgery. London, England: Springer; 2010.The last few years have seen a paradigm shift in the treatment of...
This article is adapted by the...
03/02/2012
Cath Lab Digest
Advocate Healthcare Moves 32 Terabytes of Patient Imaging Data to Safe, Easily Accessible Storage in Days with Hyper-Migration
03/02/2012
Tuan Bui
Advocate Health Care recently utilized DataFirst’s Hyper-Migration to move patient data and reports out of a DVD platform into a single, universally accessible spinning disk archival system. Cath Lab Digest talks to PACS Program Manager Tuan...
Advocate Health Care recently utilized DataFirst’s Hyper-Migration to move patient data and reports out of a DVD platform into a single, universally accessible spinning disk archival system. Cath Lab Digest talks to PACS Program Manager Tuan...
Advocate Health Care recently...
03/02/2012
Cath Lab Digest
FAME II Stopped Enrollment Early, More Events in the Medical Arm. What Does It Mean for PCI?
03/02/2012
Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA
Since the FAME II study made such headlines recently, I thought I would add my two cents and respond to some of the comments, the good and bad, that surrounded the press release from St. Jude at the end of January 2012. But first, my...
Since the FAME II study made such headlines recently, I thought I would add my two cents and respond to some of the comments, the good and bad, that surrounded the press release from St. Jude at the end of January 2012. But first, my...
Since the FAME II study made...
03/02/2012
Cath Lab Digest
The Use of OCT Compared with IVUS
03/02/2012
Jeffrey A. Southard, MD
What are the advantages of optical coherence tomography (OCT) over intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)?Both systems offer an anatomic assessment of the vasculature, but OCT is a leap forward in assessing coronary vessels from an anatomic...
What are the advantages of optical coherence tomography (OCT) over intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)?Both systems offer an anatomic assessment of the vasculature, but OCT is a leap forward in assessing coronary vessels from an anatomic...
What are the advantages of...
03/02/2012
Cath Lab Digest
Endovascular Cooling in STEMI Patients to Reduce Reperfusion Injury: The CHILL-MI Study
03/02/2012
Matthias Gotberg
CHILL-MI is a prospective, randomized, multi-center study designed to further evaluate the safety and effectiveness of Philip’s InnerCool RTx endovascular cooling system in patients suffering from ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)....
CHILL-MI is a prospective, randomized, multi-center study designed to further evaluate the safety and effectiveness of Philip’s InnerCool RTx endovascular cooling system in patients suffering from ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)....
CHILL-MI is a prospective,...
03/02/2012
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