Volume 17 - Issue 12 - December, 2009
News
Clinical and Industry News
12/09/2009
Vascular Solutions Launches the Guardian® II Hemostasis Valve
Vascular Solutions, Inc. announces the availability of the Guardian® II Hemostasis Valve. Unlike conventional rotating hemostasis valves, the Guardian II has an ergonomic...
Vascular Solutions Launches the Guardian® II Hemostasis Valve
Vascular Solutions, Inc. announces the availability of the Guardian® II Hemostasis Valve. Unlike conventional rotating hemostasis valves, the Guardian II has an ergonomic...
Vascular Solutions Launches the...
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Department
SICP Section
12/09/2009
Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals: Illinois Chapter News
The Illinois Chapter of the Society of the Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals held a meeting October 15, 2009 at Shaw’s Crab House, Schaumburg, IL. The topic of...
Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals: Illinois Chapter News
The Illinois Chapter of the Society of the Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals held a meeting October 15, 2009 at Shaw’s Crab House, Schaumburg, IL. The topic of...
Society of Invasive...
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
ACVP Management Corner
12/09/2009
John R. Florio
Executive Director, Cardiovascular Services
The University of Kansas Hospital
Kansas City, Kansas
John R. Florio
Executive Director, Ca...
Picture yourself at your hospital’s employee benefits fair. In front of you is the funny guy from the cafeteria. Ahead of him is the CEO’s secretary. Behind you are the hospital’s cardiologists.
The hospital’s cardiologists?
Ten years ago,...
Picture yourself at your hospital’s employee benefits fair. In front of you is the funny guy from the cafeteria. Ahead of him is the CEO’s secretary. Behind you are the hospital’s cardiologists.
The hospital’s cardiologists?
Ten years ago,...
Picture yourself at your...
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Column
What Do You Think?
12/09/2009
Multiple new and ongoing questions from readers. Your responses are welcome!
Answer or pose a question at cathlabdigest@aol.com
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Questions!
Post Recovery Situation
I am interested in knowing what the post...
Multiple new and ongoing questions from readers. Your responses are welcome!
Answer or pose a question at cathlabdigest@aol.com
_______________________________
Questions!
Post Recovery Situation
I am interested in knowing what the post...
Multiple new and ongoing...
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Editor's Corner
12/09/2009
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...
I was recently asked at our Cath Lab Basics 2009 course in Seattle, “What can the techs/nurses do to introduce a new and better way of doing something in the lab to the physicians and ultimately to the patients?” For example, how does one...
I was recently asked at our Cath Lab Basics 2009 course in Seattle, “What can the techs/nurses do to introduce a new and better way of doing something in the lab to the physicians and ultimately to the patients?” For example, how does one...
I was recently asked at our Cath...
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Morale
12/09/2009
Healthcare is an incredibly rewarding field. Rich Bluni, RN, author of Inspired Nurse, reveals methods that will help you look at your job in a whole new (positive) way.
Anyone who’s been in healthcare for more than five minutes can tell you...
Healthcare is an incredibly rewarding field. Rich Bluni, RN, author of Inspired Nurse, reveals methods that will help you look at your job in a whole new (positive) way.
Anyone who’s been in healthcare for more than five minutes can tell you...
Healthcare is an incredibly...
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Management
12/09/2009
Dennis L. Kaiser, AIA, NCARB, LEED® AP, principal, Perkins and Will, Boston, Massachusetts
Dennis L. Kaiser, AIA, NCARB, LEED® A...
Consolidating catheterization and surgical units is an economical solution, once cultural objections are overcome.
The economic case for consolidating a hospital’s catheterization and surgical units, is, in many ways, a no-brainer.
In an...
Consolidating catheterization and surgical units is an economical solution, once cultural objections are overcome.
The economic case for consolidating a hospital’s catheterization and surgical units, is, in many ways, a no-brainer.
In an...
Consolidating catheterization...
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Continuing Education
Education
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
12/09/2009
Carol Humble, RN, Memorial Health Care System Cath Lab Inventory Manager, with an introduction by Scott Hardin, Director of Cardiovascular Services at Memorial Health Care System, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Carol Humble, RN, Memorial Health Car...
Introduction
by Scott Hardin, Director of Cardiovascular Services
When it comes to caring for patients, Carol Humble, cath lab inventory manager at Memorial Health Care System in Chattanooga, Tenessee, knows what it takes. After 14 years of...
Introduction
by Scott Hardin, Director of Cardiovascular Services
When it comes to caring for patients, Carol Humble, cath lab inventory manager at Memorial Health Care System in Chattanooga, Tenessee, knows what it takes. After 14 years of...
Introduction
by Scott Hardin,...
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest talks with Juan F. Granada, MD, Medical Director, The Skirball Center for Cardiovascular Research, Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, New York
Cath Lab Digest talks with Juan F. Gr...
What is unique about the vProtect™ Luminal Shield?
This stent is part of a new generation of self-expandable nitinol stents. In this particular stent design, the radial force has been calculated to achieve less chronic outward force — an...
What is unique about the vProtect™ Luminal Shield?
This stent is part of a new generation of self-expandable nitinol stents. In this particular stent design, the radial force has been calculated to achieve less chronic outward force — an...
What is unique about the...
12/09/2009
Cath Lab Digest
