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Your Path to Success: Expert Advice
03/06/2017
Despite tremendous improvements in PCI devices, technology and pharmacotherapy, we have not yet streamlined care pathways to mirror these technological advancements. Thus, the current care pathways are leading to unnecessary high costs of...
Despite tremendous improvements in PCI devices, technology and pharmacotherapy, we have not yet streamlined care pathways to mirror these technological advancements. Thus, the current care pathways are leading to unnecessary high costs of...
Despite tremendous improvements...
03/06/2017
Cath Lab Digest
CLI Perspectives
03/05/2017
A patient with rest pain and single-vessel runoff will be defined as CLI just as much as a patient with rest pain and/or skin breakdown with absent flow to the foot, usually referred to as desert foot.
A patient with rest pain and single-vessel runoff will be defined as CLI just as much as a patient with rest pain and/or skin breakdown with absent flow to the foot, usually referred to as desert foot.
A patient with rest pain and...
03/05/2017
Cath Lab Digest
CLI Perspectives
02/07/2017
I would love to see CLI Centers of Excellence across the world where there is multidisciplinary, efficient, and effective treatment of patients with CLI. This program would need to encompass multiple specialties, reside in a common physical...
I would love to see CLI Centers of Excellence across the world where there is multidisciplinary, efficient, and effective treatment of patients with CLI. This program would need to encompass multiple specialties, reside in a common physical...
I would love to see CLI Centers...
02/07/2017
Cath Lab Digest
Your Path to Success: Expert Advice
02/07/2017
In this month’s article, we call on our colleagues at MedAxiom to share their findings from the 2016 Cath Lab Survey.  The survey results demonstrate some very compelling findings that correlate closely to the observations seen in assessments...
In this month’s article, we call on our colleagues at MedAxiom to share their findings from the 2016 Cath Lab Survey.  The survey results demonstrate some very compelling findings that correlate closely to the observations seen in assessments...
In this month’s article, we call...
02/07/2017
Cath Lab Digest
Calcium Corner
01/10/2017
In many areas, STEMI and cardiac arrest care is delivered within regional systems organized in concert with pre-hospital emergency services. So, the expectation that shock is emergently managed and fixed in the cath lab is an increasing...
In many areas, STEMI and cardiac arrest care is delivered within regional systems organized in concert with pre-hospital emergency services. So, the expectation that shock is emergently managed and fixed in the cath lab is an increasing...
In many areas, STEMI and cardiac...
01/10/2017
Cath Lab Digest
Calcium Corner
01/10/2017
We as physicians should be very interested in the promise of a device like Sentinel that is showing potential in reducing brain lesions in TAVR. 
We as physicians should be very interested in the promise of a device like Sentinel that is showing potential in reducing brain lesions in TAVR. 
We as physicians should be very...
01/10/2017
Cath Lab Digest
12/08/2016
We present a prospective, double-blinded, randomized, controlled pilot study protocol to test whether tdVAS (50 Hz, 2mm), by 30-minute session directly following primary percutaneous coronary intervention, is feasible, safe, and may enhance...
We present a prospective, double-blinded, randomized, controlled pilot study protocol to test whether tdVAS (50 Hz, 2mm), by 30-minute session directly following primary percutaneous coronary intervention, is feasible, safe, and may enhance...
We present a prospective,...
12/08/2016
Cath Lab Digest
12/08/2016
We describe some of the technical and clinical aspects of the newer peripheral CTO devices. 
We describe some of the technical and clinical aspects of the newer peripheral CTO devices. 
We describe some of the...
12/08/2016
Cath Lab Digest
Your Path to Success: Expert Advice
12/08/2016

Mark C. Bieniarz, MD, FACC, New Mexico Heart Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Anne Beekman, RN, Vice President, Consulting, MedAxiom Consulting, Neptune Beach, Florida

 

Mark C. Bieniarz, MD, FACC, New Mexic...
The goal is to move beyond traditional process improvement events, and fully develop the entire care continuum and care team that supports the patient. The leadership and team at Lovelace provide a worthy example of how a radial pathway...
The goal is to move beyond traditional process improvement events, and fully develop the entire care continuum and care team that supports the patient. The leadership and team at Lovelace provide a worthy example of how a radial pathway...
The goal is to move beyond...
12/08/2016
Cath Lab Digest
CLI Perspectives
12/06/2016
In this issue, I am honored at the chance to interview Dr. Mahmood Razavi, one of the pioneers in CTO crossing who has historically demonstrated that combining proper technical skill to a uniquely designed CTO device provides a favorable...
In this issue, I am honored at the chance to interview Dr. Mahmood Razavi, one of the pioneers in CTO crossing who has historically demonstrated that combining proper technical skill to a uniquely designed CTO device provides a favorable...
In this issue, I am honored at...
12/06/2016
Cath Lab Digest