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PAD Guidelines

What You Should Know About the 2024 AHA/ACC Guideline on the Management of Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease

07/29/2024

"I am very proud of this document and the work of our multispecialty and multisocietal writing committee," says Guideline Committee Chair Heather L. Gornik, MD, FAHA, MSVM. "It includes great representation from many sponsoring and...

"I am very proud of this...

07/29/2024

Cath Lab Digest

Clinical Editor's Corner

What Makes a Cath Lab Great? Great Leaders and Great Teams

07/22/2024

Morton J. Kern , MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA;

For teaching centers, July 1st brings new faces to the cath lab, mostly in the form of cardiology trainees. Working with a brand-new cardiology fellow assigned to the cath lab prompted me to review how cath labs become great and how great...

For teaching centers, July 1st...

07/22/2024

Cath Lab Digest

Clinical Update

Data-Driven Decisions for Left Main Revascularization

07/02/2024

Brian A. Bergmark , MD;

We know that if left unrevascularized, people with left main disease do not do well. The two major areas where we have relevant data are first, whether someone should undergo revascularization with PCI versus surgery, and second, for people...

We know that if left...

07/02/2024

Cath Lab Digest

Clinical Editor's Corner

Fasting vs Non-Fasting Status: It’s Time to End the NPO Order for Most Patients

07/02/2024

Morton J. Kern , MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA;

In a 2010 editor’s page, I summarized the opinions of several prominent interventionalists who expressed their interest and belief that the nil per os (NPO) order has outlived its usefulness. In our current environment, NPO does not have to...

In a 2010 editor’s page, I...

07/02/2024

Cath Lab Digest

Clinical Editor's Corner

In Transition: Early-Career Interventional Cardiologists

05/29/2024

Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA

Every year, we graduate cardiology fellows and introduce them as new interventionalists into our community. It is our fervent hope and desire that they succeed and deliver great care to their patients.

Every year, we graduate...

05/29/2024

Cath Lab Digest

ACC President

Talking With the American College of Cardiology’s New President: Cathie Biga, MSN, FACC

05/29/2024

Cathie Biga, MSN, FACC

My heart is still in the cath lab, always and forever,” says Cathie Biga, MSN, FACC, the 2024-2025 President of the American College of Cardiology (ACC). “[Even as] VP of a hospital, I used to go to the cath lab just to get my sanity back.”

My heart is still in the cath...

05/29/2024

Cath Lab Digest

Guidelines

New Joint Guideline From the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology Provides Recommendations for the Treatment of Patients With Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease

05/21/2024

American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology News

American Heart Association and Americ...

Timely diagnosis and proper management of peripheral artery disease (PAD), including coordinated care from a multispecialty team, are essential to help prevent amputation and other cardiovascular complications and to allow patients with PAD...

Timely diagnosis and proper...

05/21/2024

Cath Lab Digest

Thrombectomy

Computer Assisted Vacuum Thrombectomy (CAVT) for Pulmonary Embolism: Penumbra’s Lightning Flash 2.0™

05/01/2024

Rohit Bhatheja, MD, MBA, FACC, FSCAI

AdventHealth Medical Group, Interventional Cardiology, Endovascular, Structural and Cerebrovascular Interventions; Associate Professor, University of Central Florida, College of Medicine; Physician Leader, AdventHealth Heart, Lung & Vascular Institute Research; Medical Director, AdventHealth HLVI Services – South & West Markets, Central Florida Division, Orlando, Florida

Rohit Bhatheja, MD, MBA, FACC, FSCAI ...

Penumbra’s Lightning Flash 2.0 is currently the only CAVT technology available that allows us to do thrombectomy from the pulmonary arteries utilizing clot detection algorithms that can differentiate between clot and patent flow.

Penumbra’s Lightning Flash 2.0...

05/01/2024

Cath Lab Digest

Outpatient Care

Meeting Community Need: First, an ASC, Then the New Hospital Comes Later

05/01/2024

CLD talks with Eunmee Shim

President, Adventist HealthCare, Fort Washington Medical Center, Fort Washington, Maryland

CLD talks with Eunmee Shim President...

“An ambulatory surgery center will help us take the ambulatory volume out of the hospital, which will then give us capacity to grow inpatient procedures,” says Adventist HealthCare Fort Washington Medical Center President Eunmee Shim.

“An ambulatory surgery center...

05/01/2024

Cath Lab Digest

Cutting-Edge Procedures

Renal Denervation: How We Do It

05/01/2024

Eric A. Secemsky, MD, MSc, RPVI, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, FSVM

Director, Vascular Intervention, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Section Head, Interventional Cardiology and Vascular Research, Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Disclosures: Dr. Secemsky reports he is a consultant to Medtronic and his institution receives funding from Medtronic.

Eric A. Secemsky, MD, MSc, RPVI, FACC...

We have struggled for years with managing hypertension. In my own practice, I recognized that I only had so many tools to offer my patients, primarily medical therapy and suggestions on lifestyle changes. However, there were still patients...

We have struggled for years with...

05/01/2024

Cath Lab Digest

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