Volume 12 - Issue 10 - October, 2004
Feature
06/19/2008
Case No. 1. Figure 1 is from a live case. It was in a famous course earlier this year, and shows a female, 58 years old, who had PCI of a severe left circumflex stenosis. The physicians accidentally found a 50% stenosis in the mid-RCA. They...
Case No. 1. Figure 1 is from a live case. It was in a famous course earlier this year, and shows a female, 58 years old, who had PCI of a severe left circumflex stenosis. The physicians accidentally found a 50% stenosis in the mid-RCA. They...
Case No. 1. Figure 1 is from a...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Bernie Gehrki, AIA, and Mike Tangney, AIA
Bernie Gehrki, AIA, and Mike Tangney,...
Individuals requiring the services provided in a cath lab are often under stress. Their medical condition also creates stress for their families and often for those providing treatment.
Two overriding considerations guide cath lab design ...
Individuals requiring the services provided in a cath lab are often under stress. Their medical condition also creates stress for their families and often for those providing treatment.
Two overriding considerations guide cath lab design ...
Individuals requiring the...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Case No. 1. Figure 1 is from a live case. It was in a famous course earlier this year, and shows a female, 58 years old, who had PCI of a severe left circumflex stenosis. The physicians accidentally found a 50% stenosis in the mid-RCA. They...
Case No. 1. Figure 1 is from a live case. It was in a famous course earlier this year, and shows a female, 58 years old, who had PCI of a severe left circumflex stenosis. The physicians accidentally found a 50% stenosis in the mid-RCA. They...
Case No. 1. Figure 1 is from a...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Submitted by Jill Price, RN
Submitted by Jill Price, RN
Should angioplasty and stent placement (PCI) be done in a hospital without on-site open heart surgery? This question is plaguing the entire United States right now. However, when you are an island in the middle of the Caribbean Sea and you do...
Should angioplasty and stent placement (PCI) be done in a hospital without on-site open heart surgery? This question is plaguing the entire United States right now. However, when you are an island in the middle of the Caribbean Sea and you do...
Should angioplasty and stent...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Topic Under Discussion:
IABP removal by registered nurses
I am trying to find information about the practice of removing IABP by registered nurses. Do you have any information about this practice within the cath lab or ICU areas?
Luz...
Topic Under Discussion:
IABP removal by registered nurses
I am trying to find information about the practice of removing IABP by registered nurses. Do you have any information about this practice within the cath lab or ICU areas?
Luz...
Topic Under Discussion:
IABP...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Francis Q. Almeda, MD, R. Jeffrey Snell, MD
Francis Q. Almeda, MD, R. Jeffrey Sne...
Case Report. We present the case of a 74-year-old male with a history of hypertension and smoking who was urgently referred for evaluation after he suffered a cardiac arrest after a transurethral prostate resection (TURP) in a community...
Case Report. We present the case of a 74-year-old male with a history of hypertension and smoking who was urgently referred for evaluation after he suffered a cardiac arrest after a transurethral prostate resection (TURP) in a community...
Case Report. We present the case...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
Our lab was reading your Letter from the Editor (Have you spent 10 years in the cath lab? Cath Lab Digest, September 2003) and was amazed at the idea that 10 years or more experience is elite. We have 15...
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
Our lab was reading your Letter from the Editor (Have you spent 10 years in the cath lab? Cath Lab Digest, September 2003) and was amazed at the idea that 10 years or more experience is elite. We have 15...
Letter to the Editor
Dear...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
Keith D. Dawkins, MD, FRCP, FACC
Keith D. Dawkins, MD, FRCP, FACC
...
How does the TAXUS VI clinical trial fit into the TAXUS Stent clinical trial series?>
The TAXUS VI clinical trial is the most recent of six clinical trials over four years to study the safety and efficacy of Boston Scientific's TAXUS...
How does the TAXUS VI clinical trial fit into the TAXUS Stent clinical trial series?>
The TAXUS VI clinical trial is the most recent of six clinical trials over four years to study the safety and efficacy of Boston Scientific's TAXUS...
How does the TAXUS VI clinical...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
Our lab was reading your Letter from the Editor (Have you spent 10 years in the cath lab? Cath Lab Digest, September 2003) and was amazed at the idea that 10 years or more experience is elite. We have 15...
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,
Our lab was reading your Letter from the Editor (Have you spent 10 years in the cath lab? Cath Lab Digest, September 2003) and was amazed at the idea that 10 years or more experience is elite. We have 15...
Letter to the Editor
Dear...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Department
Cath Lab Spotlight
06/19/2008
Brenda McCulloch, RN, MSN, Cardiovascular Clinical Nurse Specialist, Carol Prinzo, RN, Cath Lab Director, and Margaret Mette RN, MN, Assistant Administrator
Brenda McCulloch, RN, MSN, Cardiovasc...
Sutter is proud of our many cardiovascular firsts in the greater Sacramento region: First successful open heart surgery on adults and children, first heart transplant, first coronary angioplasty, first electrophysiology study, first...
Sutter is proud of our many cardiovascular firsts in the greater Sacramento region: First successful open heart surgery on adults and children, first heart transplant, first coronary angioplasty, first electrophysiology study, first...
Sutter is proud of our many...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
