Volume 13 - Issue 2 - February, 2005
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Early Intervention Favored for Some Chest Pain Patients
Medicine alone may not offer best quality of life for patients with moderate heart attack risk
Routine angiography and revascularization procedures, if indicated, appear to offer...
Early Intervention Favored for Some Chest Pain Patients
Medicine alone may not offer best quality of life for patients with moderate heart attack risk
Routine angiography and revascularization procedures, if indicated, appear to offer...
Early Intervention Favored for...
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Abbott Announces New Trial in Stroke Prevention: ACT I
ACT I will study the potential benefits of minimally invasive carotid stenting in patients who normally would have surgery
Abbott will begin enrolling patients during the first quarter...
Abbott Announces New Trial in Stroke Prevention: ACT I
ACT I will study the potential benefits of minimally invasive carotid stenting in patients who normally would have surgery
Abbott will begin enrolling patients during the first quarter...
Abbott Announces New Trial in...
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Held January 16-20, 2005, Miami Beach, Florida.
Presented by the Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute, Miami
Held January 16-20, 2005, Miami Beach...
Non-Surgical CryoPlasty Therapy May Save Legs, Early Research Suggests
One hundred percent of people facing almost-certain amputation were successfully treated with a non-surgical therapy that gently cools and opens leg arteries clogged...
Non-Surgical CryoPlasty Therapy May Save Legs, Early Research Suggests
One hundred percent of people facing almost-certain amputation were successfully treated with a non-surgical therapy that gently cools and opens leg arteries clogged...
Non-Surgical CryoPlasty Therapy...
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Cath Lab Digest
Feature
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Questions are answered by Jason Wilson, RCIS
Questions are answered by Jason Wilso...
My instructor tells me to keep my x-ray exposure as low as possible. What can I do to minimize my exposure?
We use the acronymn ALARA: As Low As Reasonably Achievable. To do this you must stay as far away as possible while still being able...
My instructor tells me to keep my x-ray exposure as low as possible. What can I do to minimize my exposure?
We use the acronymn ALARA: As Low As Reasonably Achievable. To do this you must stay as far away as possible while still being able...
My instructor tells me to keep...
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Russell D'Sa, RCIS, Invasive Supervisor
Russell D'Sa, RCIS, Invasive Supervis...
The admission and recovery areas house 39 beds and are divided into three Team Centers. Each center is responsible for a specific area of patient care:
Team Center A - admissions and pediatrics
Team Center B - outpatient recovery,...
The admission and recovery areas house 39 beds and are divided into three Team Centers. Each center is responsible for a specific area of patient care:
Team Center A - admissions and pediatrics
Team Center B - outpatient recovery,...
The admission and recovery areas...
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Cath Lab Digest
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Questions are answered by Jason Wilson, RCIS
Questions are answered by Jason Wilso...
My instructor tells me to keep my x-ray exposure as low as possible. What can I do to minimize my exposure?
We use the acronymn ALARA: As Low As Reasonably Achievable. To do this you must stay as far away as possible while still being able...
My instructor tells me to keep my x-ray exposure as low as possible. What can I do to minimize my exposure?
We use the acronymn ALARA: As Low As Reasonably Achievable. To do this you must stay as far away as possible while still being able...
My instructor tells me to keep...
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Cath Lab Digest
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Jill Price, RN
Head Nurse Cardiovascular Lab/Cardiology, Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center, St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands
Jill Price, RN
Head Nurse Cardiovasc...
Why did you choose to work in the CV field?
I actually chose to work in invasive cardiology by default. I had always been an intensive care nurse, and did not really have much interest in cardiology. In 1998, while living in St. Croix, I...
Why did you choose to work in the CV field?
I actually chose to work in invasive cardiology by default. I had always been an intensive care nurse, and did not really have much interest in cardiology. In 1998, while living in St. Croix, I...
Why did you choose to work in...
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Cath Lab Management
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Margaret Stuppy, BSN, RN, CCRN, RCIS
Margaret Stuppy, BSN, RN, CCRN, RCIS
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A nurse practitioner (NP) is a registered nurse with advanced academic and clinical experience, who provides health care in an expanded specialty role. Nurse practitioners fall under the umbrella term of physician extender, mid-level...
A nurse practitioner (NP) is a registered nurse with advanced academic and clinical experience, who provides health care in an expanded specialty role. Nurse practitioners fall under the umbrella term of physician extender, mid-level...
A nurse practitioner (NP) is a...
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Letter from the Editor
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What is a professional?, author Georgann Bruski asks in this issue. Many of CLD‘s articles ask that very same question this month, albeit in their own way. Georgann zeroes in on the importance of rising above the individual mindset, and...
What is a professional?, author Georgann Bruski asks in this issue. Many of CLD‘s articles ask that very same question this month, albeit in their own way. Georgann zeroes in on the importance of rising above the individual mindset, and...
What is a professional?, author...
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