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...
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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...
Ross Swanson, Vice President,
Corazon, Inc.,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ross Swanson, Vice President,
Corazon...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Charles (Chuck) Gibaut, RCP, RCIS, Assistant Director
Cardiovascular Services, Community Hospital of the
Monterey Peninsula, Monterey, California
Charles (Chuck) Gibaut, RCP, RCIS, As...
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...
Charles O. Williams, BS, RPA, RCIS, RT(R)(CV)(CI),CPFT,
CCT, FSICP; Phyllis C. Williams, RN, CEN, ASN, CVT; Neil
E. Holtz, BS, RCIS, EMT-P; Lorena Hendry, PA-C, BS; Terry
Scott, RN, BSN, CVT; Jeff Mays, RN, ASN, CVT; Betty Brooks,
RN, ASN, CEN, TNCC, CVT
Charles O. Williams, BS, RPA, RCIS, R...
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,...
MORTON KERN, MD
Clinical Editor
Professor of Medicine
Associate Chief Cardiology
University of California Irvine
Orange, California
mortonkern005@hotmail.com
MORTON KERN, MD
Clinical Editor
Profe...
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....
Jack P. Chen, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FCCP and
Refat Jabara, MD, FACC
Saint Joseph’s Translational Research Institute, Saint Joseph’s
Heart and Vascular Institute, Atlanta, Georgia
Jack P. Chen, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FCCP a...
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...
