Volume 16 - Issue 11 - November, 2008
Column
New Ideas
11/05/2008
Evelyn Korjack, RN
Citrus Memorial Health Systems
Inverness, Florida
Evelyn Korjack, RN
Citrus Memorial He...
Four years ago, I watched quizzically as a PACU nurse neatly placed an emesis basin and Yankauer suction beneath my post cardiac cath female’s perineum. She did this in response to the patient’s request for a bedpan. I was stunned!
There was...
Four years ago, I watched quizzically as a PACU nurse neatly placed an emesis basin and Yankauer suction beneath my post cardiac cath female’s perineum. She did this in response to the patient’s request for a bedpan. I was stunned!
There was...
Four years ago, I watched...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Ask the Clinical Instructor
11/05/2008
Questions are answered by:
Todd Ginapp, EMT-P, RCIS, FSICP
Questions are answered by:
Todd Ginap...
There are two very important tools in the cath lab that are often misunderstood. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and fractional flow reserve (FFR) analysis are two totally separate tools looking at two different things. Basic comprehension of...
There are two very important tools in the cath lab that are often misunderstood. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and fractional flow reserve (FFR) analysis are two totally separate tools looking at two different things. Basic comprehension of...
There are two very important...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
STEMI Interventions
11/05/2008
Katherine P. Kelly, RN, BSN, MSN
Coordinator, Quality Improvement
Resurrection Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
Katherine P. Kelly, RN, BSN, MSN
Coor...
ABSTRACT: Resurrection Medical Center implemented an initiative to address patients presenting with an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). This facility followed their performance improvement process using evidence-based strategies in...
ABSTRACT: Resurrection Medical Center implemented an initiative to address patients presenting with an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). This facility followed their performance improvement process using evidence-based strategies in...
ABSTRACT: Resurrection Medical...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
11/05/2008
Jeffrey A. Breall, MD, PhD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories and
Interventional Cardiology, Krannert Institute of Cardiology
Indianapolis, Indiana
Jeffrey A. Breall, MD, PhD
Professor ...
Today’s cardiac catheterization laboratory must be many things to many people: fast and efficient for cardiologists, user-friendly for nurses and technologists, cost-effective for administrators and, most of all, expeditious and accurate for...
Today’s cardiac catheterization laboratory must be many things to many people: fast and efficient for cardiologists, user-friendly for nurses and technologists, cost-effective for administrators and, most of all, expeditious and accurate for...
Today’s cardiac catheterization...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
11/05/2008
Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Evanston Northwestern
Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois; Associate Professor of Medicine
at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
Director o...
Today, more than ever, the Internet has become an indispensable source of health news and information for both patients and physicians. As patients find they are increasingly responsible for larger portions of their healthcare bill, many turn...
Today, more than ever, the Internet has become an indispensable source of health news and information for both patients and physicians. As patients find they are increasingly responsible for larger portions of their healthcare bill, many turn...
Today, more than ever, the...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
11/05/2008
This monthly column in Cath Lab Digest reviews important points of distinction in drug-eluting stents, from characteristics to techniques, to provide valuable and relevant information about this technology.
Dr. Kereiakes received his...
This monthly column in Cath Lab Digest reviews important points of distinction in drug-eluting stents, from characteristics to techniques, to provide valuable and relevant information about this technology.
Dr. Kereiakes received his...
This monthly column in Cath Lab...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
11/05/2008
Vicki Rocco, RN, MSN and Craig R. Narins, MD
The Division of Cardiology, The University of Rochester
School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York
Vicki Rocco, RN, MSN and Craig R. Nar...
Managed care has heightened health care professionals’ awareness of the need to provide cost-effective care without compromising quality, a goal that is typically accomplished by providing evidence-based best practice(s). Management of the...
Managed care has heightened health care professionals’ awareness of the need to provide cost-effective care without compromising quality, a goal that is typically accomplished by providing evidence-based best practice(s). Management of the...
Managed care has heightened...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Insights
10-Minute Interview
11/05/2008
Cindy Dirkes, RN, MSN
Delnor Community Hospital
Geneva, Illinois
Cindy Dirkes, RN, MSN
Delnor Communit...
I had a number of years of nursing experience in pediatric critical care that led to an advance practice position in pediatric invasive cardiology. As that niche relegates itself to larger metropolitan centers, I entered into the world of...
I had a number of years of nursing experience in pediatric critical care that led to an advance practice position in pediatric invasive cardiology. As that niche relegates itself to larger metropolitan centers, I entered into the world of...
I had a number of years of...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Commentary
11/05/2008
Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, MBA, is studying ST-elevation myocardial infarction interventions in his work with short door-to-balloon time primary PCI and the Single INdividual Community Experience REgistry for Primary PCI (SINCERE) database at 5...
Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, MBA, is studying ST-elevation myocardial infarction interventions in his work with short door-to-balloon time primary PCI and the Single INdividual Community Experience REgistry for Primary PCI (SINCERE) database at 5...
Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, MBA, is...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
Challenging Cases
11/05/2008
Suwatchai Pornratanarangsi, MD, Seif S. El-Jack, MD, Mark
W. I. Webster, MD, Duncan McNab, MD, James T. Stewart,
MD, John A. Ormiston, MD, Peter N. Ruygrok, MD
Green Lane Cardiovascular Service, Auckland City Hospital,
Auckland, New Zealand.
Suwatchai Pornratanarangsi, MD, Seif ...
Multi-Device Strategies Using Guide Catheters, Distal Vascular Protection Devices and Aspiration Catheters
Management of patients with extensive intracoronary thrombi remains a frontier of interventional cardiology. An initial conservative...
Multi-Device Strategies Using Guide Catheters, Distal Vascular Protection Devices and Aspiration Catheters
Management of patients with extensive intracoronary thrombi remains a frontier of interventional cardiology. An initial conservative...
Multi-Device Strategies Using...
11/05/2008
Cath Lab Digest
