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Volume 12 - Issue 11 - November, 2004

Insights

10-Minute Interview
06/19/2008
I grew up in the cath lab, and have gone from transporting patients at age 18 to developing entire educational programs in the same lab as a full-fledged professional.
I grew up in the cath lab, and have gone from transporting patients at age 18 to developing entire educational programs in the same lab as a full-fledged professional.
I grew up in the cath lab, and...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
With this large body of scientific literature, it is no surprise that the leading interventional cardiology professional organizations have endorsed this method as a standard of care: ACC/AHA guidelines recognize the usefulness of...
With this large body of scientific literature, it is no surprise that the leading interventional cardiology professional organizations have endorsed this method as a standard of care: ACC/AHA guidelines recognize the usefulness of...
With this large body of...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Some current clinical trials use late loss as a key data point. Can you help us understand what late loss is? Late loss is the difference in millimeters between the diameter of a stented segment post-procedure compared with the follow-up...
Some current clinical trials use late loss as a key data point. Can you help us understand what late loss is? Late loss is the difference in millimeters between the diameter of a stented segment post-procedure compared with the follow-up...
Some current clinical trials use...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
As a result, in 1999, I began developing what is now the ReValving system stent. After developing the initial steps of this concept, I decided to stop surgery and devote all my time to CoreValve, because I knew that if we could achieve a...
As a result, in 1999, I began developing what is now the ReValving system stent. After developing the initial steps of this concept, I decided to stop surgery and devote all my time to CoreValve, because I knew that if we could achieve a...
As a result, in 1999, I began...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
This article prompted the cardiac catheterization lab staff to review and evaluate practices and outcomes at Robinson Memorial Hospital (RMH). Robinson Memorial Hospital is a 250-bed, community hospital in Ravenna, Ohio. The diagnostic...
This article prompted the cardiac catheterization lab staff to review and evaluate practices and outcomes at Robinson Memorial Hospital (RMH). Robinson Memorial Hospital is a 250-bed, community hospital in Ravenna, Ohio. The diagnostic...
This article prompted the...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
About TENACITY TENACITY (Tirofiban Novel Dosing vs. Abciximab with Evaluation of Clopidogrel and Inhibition of Thrombin Study) is a multi-center, double-blind, randomized comparison of tirofiban (Aggrastat®, Guilford Pharmaceuticals) and...
About TENACITY TENACITY (Tirofiban Novel Dosing vs. Abciximab with Evaluation of Clopidogrel and Inhibition of Thrombin Study) is a multi-center, double-blind, randomized comparison of tirofiban (Aggrastat®, Guilford Pharmaceuticals) and...
About TENACITY TENACITY...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest

Column

Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
There is a question that is hard to leave behind in this month’s CLD interview with TENACITY trial PI Dr. David Moliterno: How much complexity do you realistically think the ACS-primary PCI process can stand? The question (courtesy of CLD...
There is a question that is hard to leave behind in this month’s CLD interview with TENACITY trial PI Dr. David Moliterno: How much complexity do you realistically think the ACS-primary PCI process can stand? The question (courtesy of CLD...
There is a question that is hard...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Management
06/19/2008
The workforce shortage in healthcare, and specifically, hospitals today, is a burning issue on the minds of many healthcare leaders. Currently, many people are not entering into a career in healthcare or are leaving the healthcare industry....
The workforce shortage in healthcare, and specifically, hospitals today, is a burning issue on the minds of many healthcare leaders. Currently, many people are not entering into a career in healthcare or are leaving the healthcare industry....
The workforce shortage in...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest