Volume 11 - Issue 2 - February, 2003
Feature
06/19/2008
Laissez Faire Facilities and JCAHO
Earlier this year I sent out an e-mail requesting opinions from other hospitals regarding cath lab attire: hats, masks & shoe covers. The question was printed in your December 2002 issue (Email Discussion...
Laissez Faire Facilities and JCAHO
Earlier this year I sent out an e-mail requesting opinions from other hospitals regarding cath lab attire: hats, masks & shoe covers. The question was printed in your December 2002 issue (Email Discussion...
Laissez Faire Facilities and...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
My experience as an educator first began in college, when I would host Anatomy & Physiology study sessions at my house to help other students in my class. I graduated from the Armstrong Atlantic State University School of Radiology (formally,...
My experience as an educator first began in college, when I would host Anatomy & Physiology study sessions at my house to help other students in my class. I graduated from the Armstrong Atlantic State University School of Radiology (formally,...
My experience as an educator...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
We are revising our processes and relocating our pre and post cath patient care area. I’d like some ideas on staffing, training, hours, whether or not both in and outpatients pass through there, and especially whether there are patients from...
We are revising our processes and relocating our pre and post cath patient care area. I’d like some ideas on staffing, training, hours, whether or not both in and outpatients pass through there, and especially whether there are patients from...
We are revising our processes...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
INTRODUCTION
As a disease category, heart disease is the number one cause of death, accounting for 725,192 deaths in the United States in 1999. During that year, ischemic heart disease accounted for 73% of the deaths from all...
INTRODUCTION
As a disease category, heart disease is the number one cause of death, accounting for 725,192 deaths in the United States in 1999. During that year, ischemic heart disease accounted for 73% of the deaths from all...
INTRODUCTION
As a...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Dr. Raman, what were your study results?
We compared standard, multi-view coronary angiography and spin angiography for identifying stenoses at various points along the left coronary artery.
We found a significant reduction in contrast...
Dr. Raman, what were your study results?
We compared standard, multi-view coronary angiography and spin angiography for identifying stenoses at various points along the left coronary artery.
We found a significant reduction in contrast...
Dr. Raman, what were your study...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Department
Cath Lab Spotlight
06/19/2008
What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members?
Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC) currently has three dedicated cath labs (2 single plane, 1 bi-plane). There are 22.5 FTEs budgeted for the department. Of...
What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members?
Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC) currently has three dedicated cath labs (2 single plane, 1 bi-plane). There are 22.5 FTEs budgeted for the department. Of...
What is the size of your cath...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Spotlight
06/19/2008
What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members?
Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC) currently has three dedicated cath labs (2 single plane, 1 bi-plane). There are 22.5 FTEs budgeted for the department. Of...
What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members?
Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC) currently has three dedicated cath labs (2 single plane, 1 bi-plane). There are 22.5 FTEs budgeted for the department. Of...
What is the size of your cath...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Column
Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
Correction to:The Cath Lab Digest January 2003 article, How to Survive the New Technology Era: A Tool to Evaluate Current and Future Cath Lab Technologies, by Mary Heisler, RN, BA.
The following sentence on page 21: I used the following...
Correction to:The Cath Lab Digest January 2003 article, How to Survive the New Technology Era: A Tool to Evaluate Current and Future Cath Lab Technologies, by Mary Heisler, RN, BA.
The following sentence on page 21: I used the following...
Correction to:The Cath Lab...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest