Volume 21 - Issue 4 - April 2013
04/04/2013
Joseph Brent Muhlestein, MD, FAHA, FACC
In acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients who receive stents in the cath lab, studies have demonstrated that if there is an inadequate amount of platelet inhibition despite the administration of dual antiplatelet therapy, many of these...
In acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients who receive stents in the cath lab, studies have demonstrated that if there is an inadequate amount of platelet inhibition despite the administration of dual antiplatelet therapy, many of these...
In acute coronary syndrome (ACS)...
04/04/2013
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Management
04/04/2013
Kristin Truesdell; Cheyne Vernon
With profit margins narrowing, there has been increasing scrutiny of proper reimbursement, most particularly in the cath lab, since more and more procedures are shifting to the outpatient setting.
With profit margins narrowing, there has been increasing scrutiny of proper reimbursement, most particularly in the cath lab, since more and more procedures are shifting to the outpatient setting.
With profit margins narrowing,...
04/04/2013
Cath Lab Digest
04/04/2013
Michele Impreveduto, RN, BA, MPA, RNC
Under the FDA-approved expanded use protocol, the Structural Heart Team at Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute-NSLIJ Health System has successfully implanted the first CoreValve inside a degenerative aortic bioprosthesis (ViV) in the U.S.
Under the FDA-approved expanded use protocol, the Structural Heart Team at Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute-NSLIJ Health System has successfully implanted the first CoreValve inside a degenerative aortic bioprosthesis (ViV) in the U.S.
Under the FDA-approved expanded...
04/04/2013
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Spotlight
04/04/2013
Ashley Voet, RCIS; Stefanie Roper, RN; Stephanie Kee, RN; Rocky Bailar, RCIS
We recently moved into The Ron and Carol Cope Heart Center, a brand new addition to our hospital in September 2012. It features 3 GE labs with two primarily used for cardiac, and one dedicated to peripheral and pacemakers. A fourth lab is...
We recently moved into The Ron and Carol Cope Heart Center, a brand new addition to our hospital in September 2012. It features 3 GE labs with two primarily used for cardiac, and one dedicated to peripheral and pacemakers. A fourth lab is...
We recently moved into The Ron...
04/04/2013
Cath Lab Digest
04/04/2013
Carlos E. Ruiz, MD, PhD
A heart team approach means that the evaluation of the patients, the assessment, the decision-making process, the analysis, everything, is done from beginning to end in a joint manner and the procedures are done together. That is what we...
A heart team approach means that the evaluation of the patients, the assessment, the decision-making process, the analysis, everything, is done from beginning to end in a joint manner and the procedures are done together. That is what we...
A heart team approach means that...
04/04/2013
Cath Lab Digest
04/04/2013
Raymond C. Lenius, MS, RCIS; Nicole Escarra, RCIS
We report the case of a 22-year-old male with a dissected right coronary artery following a motor vehicle collision while riding his bicycle, and the steps taken to repair the dissection.
We report the case of a 22-year-old male with a dissected right coronary artery following a motor vehicle collision while riding his bicycle, and the steps taken to repair the dissection.
We report the case of a...
04/04/2013
Cath Lab Digest
Contrast Management
04/04/2013
Bernetta M. Howard, BSN, CCRN, RN-BC; Andro G. Kacharava, MD, PhD
In order to decrease the rate of systemic or coronary air embolization during intracoronary medication delivery, our cardiac catherization laboratory has modified a 3-line manifold by inserting a stopcock pigtail attached to a 5 mL drug...
In order to decrease the rate of systemic or coronary air embolization during intracoronary medication delivery, our cardiac catherization laboratory has modified a 3-line manifold by inserting a stopcock pigtail attached to a 5 mL drug...
In order to decrease the rate of...
04/04/2013
Cath Lab Digest
04/04/2013
Jon C. George, MD, MBA; Brian Shaw, DO; Nemalan Selvaraj, DO
We present a case of a lesion within a previously placed right coronary artery stent that was determined to be thrombotic in nature, thereby guiding the strategy for percutaneous coronary intervention.
We present a case of a lesion within a previously placed right coronary artery stent that was determined to be thrombotic in nature, thereby guiding the strategy for percutaneous coronary intervention.
We present a case of a lesion...
04/04/2013
Cath Lab Digest
04/04/2013
Hayrullah Alp, MD; Tamer Baysal, MD; Sevim Karaarslan, MD
We present an infant with Ebstein’s anomaly and ventricular communications that permitted excess pulmonary blood flow in neonatal period.
We present an infant with Ebstein’s anomaly and ventricular communications that permitted excess pulmonary blood flow in neonatal period.
We present an infant with...
04/04/2013
Cath Lab Digest
New Techniques
04/04/2013
Mzee Ngunga, MD; William K.K. Hui, MBBS, FRCP, FACC, FHKAM, FHKCP
We present herein a case of successful intervention of sequential lesions in an aberrant circumflex artery arising from the right coronary ostium, using a 5 French guide catheter and an anchoring wire into the normal right coronary artery to...
We present herein a case of successful intervention of sequential lesions in an aberrant circumflex artery arising from the right coronary ostium, using a 5 French guide catheter and an anchoring wire into the normal right coronary artery to...
We present herein a case of...
04/04/2013
Cath Lab Digest
