Volume 13 - Issue 8 - August, 2005
06/19/2008
Questions are answered by: Jason Wilson, RCIS, Ellis Hospital Clinical Instructor, Schenectady, New York
Questions are answered by: Jason Wils...
Upon review of a patient’s chart, I read that the patient had metabolic syndrome. What is this?
Metabolic syndrome is a grouping of metabolic factors that predispose people to coronary artery disease and stroke. These factors include central...
Upon review of a patient’s chart, I read that the patient had metabolic syndrome. What is this?
Metabolic syndrome is a grouping of metabolic factors that predispose people to coronary artery disease and stroke. These factors include central...
Upon review of a patient’s...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Speakers: William O'Neill, MD and Raoul Bonan, MD
Moderator: Patrick Whitlow, MD
Panelists: Paul Overlie, MD, Roxana Mehran, MD,
Ted Bass, MD, Fayaz Shawl, MD, Norberto
Schechtmann, MD, Greg Braden, MD
Speakers: William O'Neill, MD and Rao...
Greg Braden: Let’s discuss the issue of MI patients who live in communities where there is quick access to catheterization laboratories, versus those in remote communities who don’t have easy access to cath labs. We live in a modestly rural...
Greg Braden: Let’s discuss the issue of MI patients who live in communities where there is quick access to catheterization laboratories, versus those in remote communities who don’t have easy access to cath labs. We live in a modestly rural...
Greg Braden: Let’s discuss the...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Cath lab professionals help one another with day-to-day dilemmas
Cath lab professionals help one anoth...
Ok to hire surgical/scrub techs?
I am opening a new cath lab in Wisconsin and am wondering if there are any legal guidelines we need to follow in hiring Surgical/Scrub techs (STs) in the cath lab. Where I came from, we had a couple STs that...
Ok to hire surgical/scrub techs?
I am opening a new cath lab in Wisconsin and am wondering if there are any legal guidelines we need to follow in hiring Surgical/Scrub techs (STs) in the cath lab. Where I came from, we had a couple STs that...
Ok to hire surgical/scrub...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
Questions are answered by: Jason Wilson, RCIS, Ellis Hospital Clinical Instructor, Schenectady, New York
Questions are answered by: Jason Wils...
Upon review of a patient’s chart, I read that the patient had metabolic syndrome. What is this?
Metabolic syndrome is a grouping of metabolic factors that predispose people to coronary artery disease and stroke. These factors include central...
Upon review of a patient’s chart, I read that the patient had metabolic syndrome. What is this?
Metabolic syndrome is a grouping of metabolic factors that predispose people to coronary artery disease and stroke. These factors include central...
Upon review of a patient’s...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
Cath lab professionals help one another with day-to-day dilemmas
Cath lab professionals help one anoth...
Ok to hire surgical/scrub techs?
I am opening a new cath lab in Wisconsin and am wondering if there are any legal guidelines we need to follow in hiring Surgical/Scrub techs (STs) in the cath lab. Where I came from, we had a couple STs that...
Ok to hire surgical/scrub techs?
I am opening a new cath lab in Wisconsin and am wondering if there are any legal guidelines we need to follow in hiring Surgical/Scrub techs (STs) in the cath lab. Where I came from, we had a couple STs that...
Ok to hire surgical/scrub...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
The Conventional Approach
Among the multiple therapeutic modalities and surgical techniques available to treat spinal conditions such as degenerative disc disease, scoliosis, spondylolisthesis, or spinal fracture, one of the more...
The Conventional Approach
Among the multiple therapeutic modalities and surgical techniques available to treat spinal conditions such as degenerative disc disease, scoliosis, spondylolisthesis, or spinal fracture, one of the more...
The Conventional Approach
Among...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
When bivalirudin first came on the market, one institution (which wishes to remain unnamed here) did a retrospective analysis of all 475 patients who had a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedure between the months of November 2002...
When bivalirudin first came on the market, one institution (which wishes to remain unnamed here) did a retrospective analysis of all 475 patients who had a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedure between the months of November 2002...
When bivalirudin first came on...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest talks with John Lasala, MD, PhD
Cath Lab Digest talks with John Lasal...
Background
ARRIVE I (Taxus Peri-Approval Registry, A U.S. Multi-Center Safety Surveillance Program) has enrolled nearly 2,600 consecutive patients at 50 sites in the United States and features Boston Scientific Corporation’s Taxus® Express2...
Background
ARRIVE I (Taxus Peri-Approval Registry, A U.S. Multi-Center Safety Surveillance Program) has enrolled nearly 2,600 consecutive patients at 50 sites in the United States and features Boston Scientific Corporation’s Taxus® Express2...
Background
ARRIVE I (Taxus...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
The Conventional Approach
Among the multiple therapeutic modalities and surgical techniques available to treat spinal conditions such as degenerative disc disease, scoliosis, spondylolisthesis, or spinal fracture, one of the more...
The Conventional Approach
Among the multiple therapeutic modalities and surgical techniques available to treat spinal conditions such as degenerative disc disease, scoliosis, spondylolisthesis, or spinal fracture, one of the more...
The Conventional Approach
Among...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest talks with clinical scientist, author and editor Nicolas Shammas, MS, MD, Research Director at the Midwest Cardiovascular Research Foundation in Davenport, Iowa, about his work and the upcoming second edition of his popular book on heart disease for the general public.
Cath Lab Digest talks with clinical s...
What was your thinking behind the creation of this book?
Learn About Your Heart…Made Simple was actually developed through the efforts of multiple people involved with the Midwest Cardiovascular Research Foundation (MCRF), as well as outside...
What was your thinking behind the creation of this book?
Learn About Your Heart…Made Simple was actually developed through the efforts of multiple people involved with the Midwest Cardiovascular Research Foundation (MCRF), as well as outside...
What was your thinking behind...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
