Volume 16 - Issue 2 - February, 2008
06/19/2008
Answer or pose a question at cathlabd...
New Questions Manual Pressure I work in the cath lab. My main job is to hold manual pressure on all post cath patients. I am trying to find out how many cath labs use manual pressure compared to closure devices. Do any other cath labs have...
New Questions Manual Pressure I work in the cath lab. My main job is to hold manual pressure on all post cath patients. I am trying to find out how many cath labs use manual pressure compared to closure devices. Do any other cath labs have...
New Questions Manual Pressure I...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Industry Insider
06/19/2008
Common Drug-Eluting Coronary Stents Appear to Have Similar Clinical Outcomes A comparison of use of the first two commercially available drug-eluting coronary stents (for the medications sirolimus and paclitaxel) among patients in “everyday...
Common Drug-Eluting Coronary Stents Appear to Have Similar Clinical Outcomes A comparison of use of the first two commercially available drug-eluting coronary stents (for the medications sirolimus and paclitaxel) among patients in “everyday...
Common Drug-Eluting Coronary...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
Answer or pose a question at cathlabd...
New Questions Manual Pressure I work in the cath lab. My main job is to hold manual pressure on all post cath patients. I am trying to find out how many cath labs use manual pressure compared to closure devices. Do any other cath labs have...
New Questions Manual Pressure I work in the cath lab. My main job is to hold manual pressure on all post cath patients. I am trying to find out how many cath labs use manual pressure compared to closure devices. Do any other cath labs have...
New Questions Manual Pressure I...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
For more information about the SICP at New Cardiovascular Horizons, see: Powell D. The Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals Holds an RCIS Review Course at New Cardiovascular Horizons. Cath Lab Digest Jan 2008;16(1):43-44
For more information about the SICP a...
For more information about the SICP at New Cardiovascular Horizons, see: Powell D. The Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals Holds an RCIS Review Course at New Cardiovascular Horizons. Cath Lab Digest Jan 2008;16(1):43-44.
Thank...
For more information about the SICP at New Cardiovascular Horizons, see: Powell D. The Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals Holds an RCIS Review Course at New Cardiovascular Horizons. Cath Lab Digest Jan 2008;16(1):43-44.
Thank...
For more information about the...
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Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
Questions are answered by:
Todd Ginapp, EMT-P, RCIS, FSICP
Questions are answered by:
Todd Gina...
The registered cardiovascular invasive specialist (RCIS) exam does require the candidate to be familiar with a few different ways to calculate cardiac output. In reality, some are more reliable and accurate than others. It also appears that...
The registered cardiovascular invasive specialist (RCIS) exam does require the candidate to be familiar with a few different ways to calculate cardiac output. In reality, some are more reliable and accurate than others. It also appears that...
The registered cardiovascular...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
The Illinois Chapter of the Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals held their winter meeting December 4th, 2007 at Maggiano’s Little Italy in Schaumburg, IL. The topic of discussion was ‘PCI Drug-Eluting Stent Safety,’ presented by...
The Illinois Chapter of the Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals held their winter meeting December 4th, 2007 at Maggiano’s Little Italy in Schaumburg, IL. The topic of discussion was ‘PCI Drug-Eluting Stent Safety,’ presented by...
The Illinois Chapter of the...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
I have been in the healthcare industry since May of 1983. I started my nursing career in the critical care unit (CCU) while working in the Army Nurse Corps. Once I left the Army Nurse Corps, I was a flight nurse with the Air National Guard...
I have been in the healthcare industry since May of 1983. I started my nursing career in the critical care unit (CCU) while working in the Army Nurse Corps. Once I left the Army Nurse Corps, I was a flight nurse with the Air National Guard...
I have been in the healthcare...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Recently, the Washington Hospital Center presented a unique analysis on the clinical impact of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) on drug-eluting stent (DES) placement at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Heart Association. What was the...
Recently, the Washington Hospital Center presented a unique analysis on the clinical impact of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) on drug-eluting stent (DES) placement at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Heart Association. What was the...
Recently, the Washington...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
James Burns, Vice President, Corazon, Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
James Burns, Vice President, Corazon,...
Several years ago, I attended an educational seminar that focused on healthcare finance and economics. While I don’t remember a great deal about what was presented that day, one thing stands out in my mind as clear as if it happened...
Several years ago, I attended an educational seminar that focused on healthcare finance and economics. While I don’t remember a great deal about what was presented that day, one thing stands out in my mind as clear as if it happened...
Several years ago, I attended an...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Neelima Penugonda, MD, Jennifer Jones, MD,
J. Richard Spears, MD, Theodore Schreiber, MD
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Neelima Penugonda, MD, Jennifer Jones...
Background
Although clinical trial data suggest that the incidence of hemorrhagic and vascular complications associated with invasive coronary procedures is relatively low, contemporary data from ‘real world, non-trial related’data...
Background
Although clinical trial data suggest that the incidence of hemorrhagic and vascular complications associated with invasive coronary procedures is relatively low, contemporary data from ‘real world, non-trial related’data...
Background
Although clinical...
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