Volume 17 - Issue 2 - February, 2009
News
Clinical and Industry News
01/29/2009
vProtect™ Luminal Shield Stabilizes Plaque
Healthy Vessel Seen in 6-Month Follow-up Exam on First Patient to Receive Preventive Treatment for Vulnerable Plaque
The first patient receiving focal preventive treatment for vulnerable plaque...
vProtect™ Luminal Shield Stabilizes Plaque
Healthy Vessel Seen in 6-Month Follow-up Exam on First Patient to Receive Preventive Treatment for Vulnerable Plaque
The first patient receiving focal preventive treatment for vulnerable plaque...
vProtect™ Luminal Shield...
01/29/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Department
SICP Section
01/29/2009
Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP) Chapter Spotlight: Emerald Coast Chapter
The Emerald Coast Chapter (ECC), located in northwest Florida, was established in April 2005. Most ECC founding members continue to work in...
Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP) Chapter Spotlight: Emerald Coast Chapter
The Emerald Coast Chapter (ECC), located in northwest Florida, was established in April 2005. Most ECC founding members continue to work in...
Society of Invasive...
01/29/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Poetry
01/29/2009
By Prithwish Banerjee, MD, Consultant Cardiologist and Head of Heart Failure Services, Department of Cardiology, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Email: banerjeep@aol.com
By Prithwish Banerjee, MD, Consultant...
You won’t hear them breathe
In the cath lab.
A calm silence usually
Prevails, interrupted occasionally
By some familiar sounds:
A warm chatter with the patient
As he is wheeled in;
Witty remarks exchanged
Between a young registrar
And the...
You won’t hear them breathe
In the cath lab.
A calm silence usually
Prevails, interrupted occasionally
By some familiar sounds:
A warm chatter with the patient
As he is wheeled in;
Witty remarks exchanged
Between a young registrar
And the...
You won’t hear them breathe
In...
01/29/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Discussion Group
01/29/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Your Path to Success: Expert Advice
01/29/2009
Katherine Kay Brown, MSN, RN
Corazon Inc.,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Katherine Kay Brown, MSN, RN
Corazon ...
Over the last several years, as hospitals build and renovate, industry trends have revealed that the goal is no longer to simply assure that procedural space can accommodate equipment and/or that rooms are sized according to code. Rather,...
Over the last several years, as hospitals build and renovate, industry trends have revealed that the goal is no longer to simply assure that procedural space can accommodate equipment and/or that rooms are sized according to code. Rather,...
Over the last several years, as...
01/29/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Column
Clinical Editor's Corner
01/29/2009
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...
Retroperitoneal hemorrhage (RPH) is a potentially fatal complication and is most often related to invasive cardiac procedures using the femoral artery access route. RPH rarely occurs spontaneously. For cardiac cath procedures, RPH is more...
Retroperitoneal hemorrhage (RPH) is a potentially fatal complication and is most often related to invasive cardiac procedures using the femoral artery access route. RPH rarely occurs spontaneously. For cardiac cath procedures, RPH is more...
Retroperitoneal hemorrhage (RPH)...
01/29/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Unique Teams
01/29/2009
Julie Logan, RN, Regina Deible BSN, RN, Johanna (Tina) Evans, RN, MSN, and Marsha Holton, BS, CCRN, RCIS, work together to create the Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT) nurse and technologist symposium each year (this year’s CRT meeting is March 4-6, in the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.). But the real story is in their dynamic career histories and unique perspectives on the field.
Julie Logan, RN, Regina Deible BSN, R...
You’ve traveled to cath labs all over the world. Tell us how that came about.
I have been extremely fortunate over the years with the opportunities that presented themselves. My background was primarily ICU-CV and neuro. Early in my...
You’ve traveled to cath labs all over the world. Tell us how that came about.
I have been extremely fortunate over the years with the opportunities that presented themselves. My background was primarily ICU-CV and neuro. Early in my...
You’ve traveled to cath labs all...
01/29/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Ask the Clinical Instructor
01/29/2009
Questions are answered by:
Todd Ginapp, EMT-P, RCIS, FSICP
Questions are answered by:
Todd Ginap...
Todd is the Cardiology Manager for Memorial Hermann Southeast in Houston, Texas. He also teaches an online RCIS Review course for Spokane Community College, in Spokane, Washington, and regularly presents with RCIS Review...
Todd is the Cardiology Manager for Memorial Hermann Southeast in Houston, Texas. He also teaches an online RCIS Review course for Spokane Community College, in Spokane, Washington, and regularly presents with RCIS Review...
Todd is the Cardiology Manager...
01/29/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Insights
10-Minute Interview
01/29/2009
James A. Lincoln, RCIS
SICP Advocacy Committee Chair
The Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals;
Charlton Memorial Hospital, Fall River, Massachusetts
James A. Lincoln, RCIS
SICP Advocacy ...
I am a cardiovascular technologist who has worked in several cardiovascular/electrophysiology labs since 1997, passing my invasive registry RCIS (Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist) in 2006. Prior to coming to the cardiovascular...
I am a cardiovascular technologist who has worked in several cardiovascular/electrophysiology labs since 1997, passing my invasive registry RCIS (Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist) in 2006. Prior to coming to the cardiovascular...
I am a cardiovascular...
01/29/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
Single-Center Experience
01/28/2009
Charles L. Brown, III, MD, FACC, FACP
Chief Executive Officer, Piedmont Heart Institute Physicians,
Atlanta, Georgia
Charles L. Brown, III, MD, FACC, FACP...
The Piedmont Heart Institute is a cardiovascular care center serving patients in the greater Atlanta area. It operates an innovative cardiovascular healthcare delivery model that integrates a continuum of care for patients from primary and...
The Piedmont Heart Institute is a cardiovascular care center serving patients in the greater Atlanta area. It operates an innovative cardiovascular healthcare delivery model that integrates a continuum of care for patients from primary and...
The Piedmont Heart Institute is...
01/28/2009
Cath Lab Digest
