From the Experts

Mentorship is one way to effectively accomplish professional development. Mentoring can strengthen the nursing workforce and, in turn, improve the quality of care and patient outcomes.

Is your organization currently seeking a cardiovascular nurse manager? If so, you are not alone! Over the past few years, Corazon has found that the cardiovascular nurse manager role, both in the cath lab and the cardiovascular ICU 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.

Compared to most hospitals across the U.S., we have not seen a volume drop. I personally am still doing over 1,000 procedures per year, coronary as well as structural heart disease procedures, such as valvuloplasties and transcatheter aortic...

Vascular has emerged as an attractive growth opportunity. Many hospitals still have not fully recognized the market share potential despite the large population of vascular disease patients.

Marie Curie died due to excess exposure to her discovery, radium. Thomas Edison invented the fluoroscope, but stopped his work in this area when his assistant died of an x-ray overdose. Many years later, we have a better understanding of the...

Thirty-day ADAPT-DES (Assessment of Dual AntiPlatelet Therapy with Drug-Eluting Stents) data were presented at TCT in November. Can you describe the study?ADAPT-DES is a large, multi-center registry looking at the relation between...

What is the history of comparisons between the Xience V and Resolute stents?The TWENTE trial is actually the second, prospective, randomized trial between Resolute and Xience V in patients with complex coronary artery disease. The first, the...

EXCEL is a global, prospective, multi-center, randomized trial to assess the safety and efficacy of the Xience Prime/Xience V everolimus-eluting stent (Abbott Vascular, Santa Clara, California) compared to coronary artery bypass grafting...