Volume 14 - Issue 7 - July, 2006
06/19/2008
Chapter News
The SICP’s Gulf Coast Chapter held their first RCIS review course June 10-11, 2006. The SICP was proud to support the Gulf Coast Chapter in this mutually beneficial event. SICP’s focus on education continues to grow and with...
Chapter News
The SICP’s Gulf Coast Chapter held their first RCIS review course June 10-11, 2006. The SICP was proud to support the Gulf Coast Chapter in this mutually beneficial event. SICP’s focus on education continues to grow and with...
Chapter News
The SICP’s Gulf...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Industry Insider
06/19/2008
Kerberos Completes First Clinical Cases with New Peripheral Rinspiration® System
Kerberos Proximal Solutions, Inc. has successfully completed its first series of cases with the new Peripheral Rinspiration® Catheter System. The Peripheral...
Kerberos Completes First Clinical Cases with New Peripheral Rinspiration® System
Kerberos Proximal Solutions, Inc. has successfully completed its first series of cases with the new Peripheral Rinspiration® Catheter System. The Peripheral...
Kerberos Completes First...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Mark Paquin, Tampa, Florida
Mark Paquin, Tampa, Florida
Nearly 20 percent of all percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) are performed at a bifurcation. Moreover, bifurcation and ostial lesions remain one of the more challenging coronary interventions faced by interventional cardiologists in our...
Nearly 20 percent of all percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) are performed at a bifurcation. Moreover, bifurcation and ostial lesions remain one of the more challenging coronary interventions faced by interventional cardiologists in our...
Nearly 20 percent of all...
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Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Mark A. Turco, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Mark A. Turco, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Mark A. Turco, MD, FACC, FSCAI is an interventional cardiologist who is the Director of the Center of Cardiac & Vascular Research at Washington Adventist Hospital, Takoma Park, Maryland. He has significant experience in clinical trial...
Mark A. Turco, MD, FACC, FSCAI is an interventional cardiologist who is the Director of the Center of Cardiac & Vascular Research at Washington Adventist Hospital, Takoma Park, Maryland. He has significant experience in clinical trial...
Mark A. Turco, MD, FACC, FSCAI...
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Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
John R. Florio, Executive Director, Cardiovascular Services, University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, Kansas
John R. Florio, Executive Director, C...
They had not seen each other since the meeting last year, but as good long-time friends, their conversation flowed spontaneously, as if they saw each other every day. They are: Bob, a senior cardiovascular product line manager from the...
They had not seen each other since the meeting last year, but as good long-time friends, their conversation flowed spontaneously, as if they saw each other every day. They are: Bob, a senior cardiovascular product line manager from the...
They had not seen each other...
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Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Barry Rutherford, MD, St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri
Barry Rutherford, MD, St. Luke's Hosp...
Approximately how many are chronic total occlusion (CTO) patients?
Eight to ten percent are CTO attempts.
What is your crossing success rate?
Our crossing rate now is in the range of 80%. There are nine interventionalists working at the...
Approximately how many are chronic total occlusion (CTO) patients?
Eight to ten percent are CTO attempts.
What is your crossing success rate?
Our crossing rate now is in the range of 80%. There are nine interventionalists working at the...
Approximately how many are...
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Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Launched February 24, 2006 at the Third International Chronic Total Occlusion Summit (New York, NY) the Asahi Tornus® specialty catheter (Abbott Vascular Devices, Redwood City, CA) is a new catheter for crossing chronic total occlusions in...
Launched February 24, 2006 at the Third International Chronic Total Occlusion Summit (New York, NY) the Asahi Tornus® specialty catheter (Abbott Vascular Devices, Redwood City, CA) is a new catheter for crossing chronic total occlusions in...
Launched February 24, 2006 at...
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Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Monica Harrington and Jason Kahn
Cardiovascular Research Foundation
New York, New York
Monica Harrington and Jason Kahn
Card...
Patient Selection and Safety
David E. Kandzari, MD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, addressed patient selection by discussing results showing improvement of left ventricle (LV) function after CTO recanalization.1 In a study...
Patient Selection and Safety
David E. Kandzari, MD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, addressed patient selection by discussing results showing improvement of left ventricle (LV) function after CTO recanalization.1 In a study...
Patient Selection and...
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Cath Lab Digest
Department
Cath Lab Spotlight
06/19/2008
Jason L. Davis, RN, Cath Lab Team Leader, Richard Slagle, MD, Hospital Chief of Staff, Richard Lowry, MD Tulsa, Oklahoma
Jason L. Davis, RN, Cath Lab Team Lea...
We have 18 full-time clinical staff, consisting of RNs, RT(R)s, and CVTs. The staff that are employed here all have significant amounts of interventional radiology, cath lab, and cardiology experience. The average experience for our staff is...
We have 18 full-time clinical staff, consisting of RNs, RT(R)s, and CVTs. The staff that are employed here all have significant amounts of interventional radiology, cath lab, and cardiology experience. The average experience for our staff is...
We have 18 full-time clinical...
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Cath Lab Digest
Column
Letter from the Editor
06/19/2008
morton kern, MD
Clinical Editor
Pacific Cardiovascular
Associates, Inc.
Costa Mesa, California;
Adjunct Clinical Professor,
Keck School of Medicine,
University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, California
morton kern, MD
Clinical Editor
Paci...
Presented at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation’s third international CTO Summit, held in February 2006, several renowned investigators highlighted new methods and success rates for crossing chronic total occlusions with the latest...
Presented at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation’s third international CTO Summit, held in February 2006, several renowned investigators highlighted new methods and success rates for crossing chronic total occlusions with the latest...
Presented at the Cardiovascular...
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Cath Lab Digest
