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Volume 16 - Issue 11 - November, 2008

News

Clinical and Industry News
Clinical and Industry News
11/06/2008
Mouse Study Shows Fetal Heart Can Grow Cells to Repair Disease Damage A recent study in mice shows the ability of the fetal heart to grow healthy cells to compensate for cardiac tissue lost to disease. The mice are normal at birth and their...
Mouse Study Shows Fetal Heart Can Grow Cells to Repair Disease Damage A recent study in mice shows the ability of the fetal heart to grow healthy cells to compensate for cardiac tissue lost to disease. The mice are normal at birth and their...
Mouse Study Shows Fetal Heart...
11/06/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Discussion Group
What Do You Think?
11/06/2008
Multiple new and ongoing questions from readers. Your responses are welcome! Answer or pose a question at cathlabdigest@aol.com Inside the Cath Lab What do other labs do about hats, masks, etc., for setting up tables for cath/PTCA...
Multiple new and ongoing questions from readers. Your responses are welcome! Answer or pose a question at cathlabdigest@aol.com Inside the Cath Lab What do other labs do about hats, masks, etc., for setting up tables for cath/PTCA...
Multiple new and ongoing...
11/06/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Your Path to Success: Expert Advice
Investments in Leadership: The Value of Interim Management to the Cardiac Cath Lab
11/05/2008
Ross Swanson
Most hospital hospital leaders appreciate the difficulty in recruiting and retaining talented individuals to lead their cardiovascular programs. It is particularly difficult to find leaders for specialty areas such as the cardiac...
Most hospital hospital leaders appreciate the difficulty in recruiting and retaining talented individuals to lead their cardiovascular programs. It is particularly difficult to find leaders for specialty areas such as the cardiac...
Most hospital hospital leaders...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest

Department

Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
11/06/2008
September 11, 2008 Dear Editor, RE: Article by Jackson Thatcher, MD, FACC, entitled “Groin Bleeds and Other Hemorrhagic Complications of Cardiac Catheterization: A List of Relative Issues” (Cath Lab Digest March 2008, Volume 16.) Available...
September 11, 2008 Dear Editor, RE: Article by Jackson Thatcher, MD, FACC, entitled “Groin Bleeds and Other Hemorrhagic Complications of Cardiac Catheterization: A List of Relative Issues” (Cath Lab Digest March 2008, Volume 16.) Available...
September 11, 2008 Dear...
11/06/2008
Cath Lab Digest
SICP Section
November 2008 Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP) News
11/06/2008
SICP News Renew for 2009 today at www.sicp.com. Please make every effort to renew your membership prior to January 31, 2009. Remember, your membership is based on a calendar year! If you have questions regarding your membership, please...
SICP News Renew for 2009 today at www.sicp.com. Please make every effort to renew your membership prior to January 31, 2009. Remember, your membership is based on a calendar year! If you have questions regarding your membership, please...
SICP News Renew for 2009 today...
11/06/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Meeting Update
Selected News from Transcatheter Cardiovascular Interventions (TCT): October 12-17, 2008, Washington, D.C.
11/06/2008
Medtronic: Danish Study, SORT OUT III, Looks at TLR, Stent Thrombosis for Endeavor® and Cypher® Stents Medtronic, Inc. announced that the target lesion revascularization (TLR) rate for the company’s Endeavor® drug-eluting stent in the...
Medtronic: Danish Study, SORT OUT III, Looks at TLR, Stent Thrombosis for Endeavor® and Cypher® Stents Medtronic, Inc. announced that the target lesion revascularization (TLR) rate for the company’s Endeavor® drug-eluting stent in the...
Medtronic: Danish Study, SORT...
11/06/2008
Cath Lab Digest
ACVP Management Corner
The Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist (RCIS) Credential
11/05/2008
Charles Gibaut, RCP, RCIS
Recognition & Support through the Alliance of Cardiovascular Professionals (ACVP) I have been in and out of a cardiac catheterization laboratory since 1969. I received my start in the Navy by going through their cardiopulmonary technologist...
Recognition & Support through the Alliance of Cardiovascular Professionals (ACVP) I have been in and out of a cardiac catheterization laboratory since 1969. I received my start in the Navy by going through their cardiopulmonary technologist...
Recognition & Support through...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Meeting Update
Hurricane Ike Threatens, but the 9th Annual New Cardiovascular Horizons Conference Goes On
11/05/2008
Jeffery C. Mays, RN, ASN, CVT; Betty Brooks, RN, ASN, CEN, CVT; Phyllis C. Williams, RCSA, RN, CEN, TCCN, ASN, CVT; Charles Ody Williams, BS , RCIS, CPFT, CCT, FSICP, BSRS; Neil E. Holtz, BS , RCIS, EMT-P, CVT; Lorena Hendry, PA-C, BS ; Terry Scott, RN, BSN, CVT
The Cardiovascular Institute of the South held the 9th Annual New Cardiovascular Horizons and Management of the Diabetic Foot and Wound Healing Conference at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, from September 10-13,...
The Cardiovascular Institute of the South held the 9th Annual New Cardiovascular Horizons and Management of the Diabetic Foot and Wound Healing Conference at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, from September 10-13,...
The Cardiovascular Institute of...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest

Column

Clinical Editor's Corner
What’s Your Approach to New Technology? Early Adopter or Prisoner of Tribal Customs?
11/06/2008
Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA
Technology and new information come to the cath lab nearly every month. The use of new stents and techniques in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (for example, bifurcation management or thrombus aspiration methods) continues to evolve....
Technology and new information come to the cath lab nearly every month. The use of new stents and techniques in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (for example, bifurcation management or thrombus aspiration methods) continues to evolve....
Technology and new information...
11/06/2008
Cath Lab Digest

Feature

Clinical Images
The Broken Heart Within
11/05/2008
Refat Jabara, MD, FACC; Jack P. Chen, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FCCP
A 50-year-old male, chronic crack-cocaine abuser, presented with angina after a “binge.” He had undergone left anterior descending drug-eluting stent deployment 3 weeks earlier for myocardial infarction and admitted to medication...
A 50-year-old male, chronic crack-cocaine abuser, presented with angina after a “binge.” He had undergone left anterior descending drug-eluting stent deployment 3 weeks earlier for myocardial infarction and admitted to medication...
A 50-year-old male, chronic...
11/05/2008
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Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FAHA, FACC 

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Rebecca Kapur, rkapur@hmpglobal.com

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