Volume 17 - Issue 3 - March, 2009
News
Clinical and Industry News
03/04/2009
Vascular Solutions Launches Minnie Support Catheter
Vascular Solutions, Inc. announced the launch of its Minnie support catheter. The new catheter is designed to provide superior guidewire support and exchange for complex interventions,...
Vascular Solutions Launches Minnie Support Catheter
Vascular Solutions, Inc. announced the launch of its Minnie support catheter. The new catheter is designed to provide superior guidewire support and exchange for complex interventions,...
Vascular Solutions Launches...
03/04/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Department
SICP Section
03/04/2009
Letter from the President:
Tracy Simpson, RCIS, FSICP, RN
Letter from the President:
Tracy Simp...
SICP leadership met January 23-25, 2009 at SICP Headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina. The weekend of strategic planning brought together many longtime SICP leaders as well as several new volunteers. The group identified several initiatives...
SICP leadership met January 23-25, 2009 at SICP Headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina. The weekend of strategic planning brought together many longtime SICP leaders as well as several new volunteers. The group identified several initiatives...
SICP leadership met January...
03/04/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Poetry
03/04/2009
Prithwish Banerjee, MD, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and Head of Heart Failure Services, Department of Cardiology, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Prithwish Banerjee, MD, Consultant In...
I. Primary Angioplasty (doctor)
Sarah’s cheerful face
Popped through the cath lab door,
“There’s an inferior MI in A&E
34-year-old man. Other lab is busy.”
I had just finished Angio-Sealing
The last double-vessel PCI;
“Ready when you are...
I. Primary Angioplasty (doctor)
Sarah’s cheerful face
Popped through the cath lab door,
“There’s an inferior MI in A&E
34-year-old man. Other lab is busy.”
I had just finished Angio-Sealing
The last double-vessel PCI;
“Ready when you are...
I. Primary Angioplasty...
03/04/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Letters to the Editor
03/04/2009
Dear Editor,
I would like to give credit to the easy, quick and painless ECG test.
I started my medical career as an ECG tech in 1971, advanced to monitor tech, then CV tech at an on-the-job training program offered at the Washington...
Dear Editor,
I would like to give credit to the easy, quick and painless ECG test.
I started my medical career as an ECG tech in 1971, advanced to monitor tech, then CV tech at an on-the-job training program offered at the Washington...
Dear Editor,
I would like to...
03/04/2009
Cath Lab Digest
SICP Section
03/04/2009
Sebrena Palmer, RN
Clinical Coordinator of the Cardiovascular Lab
Baptist Hospital, Pensacola, Florida
Sebrena Palmer, RN
Clinical Coordina...
My name is Sebrena Palmer. I live in Gulf Breeze, Florida. I have been an RN for 24 years and will soon celebrate 23 years at Baptist Hospital.
Why did you choose to work in the invasive cardiology field?
Initially, I was a critical care...
My name is Sebrena Palmer. I live in Gulf Breeze, Florida. I have been an RN for 24 years and will soon celebrate 23 years at Baptist Hospital.
Why did you choose to work in the invasive cardiology field?
Initially, I was a critical care...
My name is Sebrena Palmer. I...
03/04/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Discussion Group
03/04/2009
Multiple new and ongoing questions from readers.
Your responses are welcome!
Answer or pose a question at cathlabdigest@aol.com
New Questions!
Safety Of Obturators
I am looking for information about using obturators in sheaths when there...
Multiple new and ongoing questions from readers.
Your responses are welcome!
Answer or pose a question at cathlabdigest@aol.com
New Questions!
Safety Of Obturators
I am looking for information about using obturators in sheaths when there...
Multiple new and ongoing...
03/04/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Your Path to Success: Expert Advice
03/04/2009
Kevin Miracle, Recruiter, Corazon, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Kevin Miracle, Recruiter, Corazon, In...
If you have ever been contacted by a recruiter, they most likely have been contracted by a hospital or practice to identify and screen candidates with a background similar to the skill set you currently possess for an open position....
If you have ever been contacted by a recruiter, they most likely have been contracted by a hospital or practice to identify and screen candidates with a background similar to the skill set you currently possess for an open position....
If you have ever been contacted...
03/04/2009
Cath Lab Digest
03/04/2009
Cath Lab Digest talks with Samin Sharma, MD, FACC,
Co-Director of the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health, and Director of Interventional Cardiology and the Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York
Cath Lab Digest talks with Samin Shar...
Mount Sinai Hospital cath lab accomplishes over 5,000 interventions annually, making it one of the busiest cath labs in the country. In 2008, the cath lab performed 5,254 interventions, a 7% increase over 2007 (4,908 interventions). The cath...
Mount Sinai Hospital cath lab accomplishes over 5,000 interventions annually, making it one of the busiest cath labs in the country. In 2008, the cath lab performed 5,254 interventions, a 7% increase over 2007 (4,908 interventions). The cath...
Mount Sinai Hospital cath lab...
03/04/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Column
Clinical Editor's Corner
03/04/2009
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...
How sterile does the cardiac catheterization laboratory have to be? In the initial years of catheterization at The Cleveland Clinic, Mason Sones was seen performing the procedure in a sterile gown and glove with a sterile mosquito clip at his...
How sterile does the cardiac catheterization laboratory have to be? In the initial years of catheterization at The Cleveland Clinic, Mason Sones was seen performing the procedure in a sterile gown and glove with a sterile mosquito clip at his...
How sterile does the cardiac...
03/04/2009
Cath Lab Digest
Ask the Clinical Instructor
03/04/2009
Questions are answered by:
Todd Ginapp, EMT-P, RCIS, FSICP
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 Courses.
Questions are answered by:
Todd Gina...
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“We have so many different ways that we administer nitroglycerine. Which one is best?”
— RCIS Online Class Student
Yes, it can be confusing sometimes. However, as I will explain, there isn’t a ‘best...
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“We have so many different ways that we administer nitroglycerine. Which one is best?”
— RCIS Online Class Student
Yes, it can be confusing sometimes. However, as I will explain, there isn’t a ‘best...
...
03/04/2009
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