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Volume 18 - Issue 10 - October, 2010

10/18/2010
Sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Washington, D.C., September 21-26, 2010
Sponsored by the Cardiovascular Resea...
EVEREST II Data Show Clinical Benefit From Mitral Valve Clip Device A percutaneous mitral valve clip designed to stop mitral valve regurgitation demonstrated clinical benefit as measured by the degree of mitral regurgitation, according to a...
EVEREST II Data Show Clinical Benefit From Mitral Valve Clip Device A percutaneous mitral valve clip designed to stop mitral valve regurgitation demonstrated clinical benefit as measured by the degree of mitral regurgitation, according to a...
EVEREST II Data Show Clinical...
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Cath Lab Digest
Your Path to Success: Expert Advice
10/18/2010
Nicole McKenna, Consultant, Corazon, Inc. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nicole McKenna, Consultant, Corazon, ...
Many hospitals across the country are facing the same or similar challenges: the need to reduce expenses and/or pressure to enhance revenue. Initiatives to achieve these and other more detailed financial goals affect all levels of the...
Many hospitals across the country are facing the same or similar challenges: the need to reduce expenses and/or pressure to enhance revenue. Initiatives to achieve these and other more detailed financial goals affect all levels of the...
Many hospitals across the...
10/18/2010
Cath Lab Digest
10/18/2010
Gerald Lagasse, RCIS, Borgess Medical Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Gerald Lagasse, RCIS, Borgess Medical...
Almost 10 years ago, Cath Lab Digest’s September 2001 issue included the article, “The Process of Developing Competencies for Cath Lab Skills: “To perc, or not to perc; that is the question…” by Gerald Lagasse, available online at...
Almost 10 years ago, Cath Lab Digest’s September 2001 issue included the article, “The Process of Developing Competencies for Cath Lab Skills: “To perc, or not to perc; that is the question…” by Gerald Lagasse, available online at...
Almost 10 years ago, Cath Lab...
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Cath Lab Digest

Column

Ask the Clinical Instructor
10/18/2010
Todd Ginapp, EMT-P, RCIS, FSICP
Todd Ginapp, EMT-P, RCIS, FSICP ...
We recently were performing a right heart catheterization on a patient. Our policy is that all patients get oxygen during their procedure. We had a debate about whether we should do this for the right heart cath portion. – Orlando, Florida...
We recently were performing a right heart catheterization on a patient. Our policy is that all patients get oxygen during their procedure. We had a debate about whether we should do this for the right heart cath portion. – Orlando, Florida...
We recently were performing a...
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Cath Lab Digest
Ask the Expert
10/18/2010
Questions answered by Orlando Marrero, RCIS, MBA, Cardiac Cath Lab Director Bostick Heart Center Winter Haven Hospital Winter Haven, Florida Email your question to Orlando.Marrero@WinterHavenHospital.org
Questions answered by Orlando Marrer...
Does your physician do any peripherals through the radial artery?
Does your physician do any peripherals through the radial artery?
Does your physician do any...
10/18/2010
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Editor's Corner
10/18/2010
Morton Kern, MD, Clinical Editor, Professor of Medicine Associate Chief Cardiology, University of California Irvine Orange, California. E:mail: mortonkern005@hotmail.com
Morton Kern, MD, Clinical Editor, Pro...
There are many tests and procedures in medicine, and specifically in cardiology, that require patients to take nothing by mouth (NPO) for several hours before the procedure. NPO has been the standard of care for cardiac cath since its...
There are many tests and procedures in medicine, and specifically in cardiology, that require patients to take nothing by mouth (NPO) for several hours before the procedure. NPO has been the standard of care for cardiac cath since its...
There are many tests and...
10/18/2010
Cath Lab Digest
STEMI Interventions
10/16/2010
Paul Trenteseaux, CVT Orange Park Medical Center, Orange Park, Florida
Paul Trenteseaux, CVT Orange Park Med...
Let’s face it, when it comes to myocardial ischemia, minutes count. Period. The nationwide door-to-balloon (D2B) guideline is under 90 minutes, but we all know major adverse cardiac events (MACE), necrosis of heart muscle, and reducing...
Let’s face it, when it comes to myocardial ischemia, minutes count. Period. The nationwide door-to-balloon (D2B) guideline is under 90 minutes, but we all know major adverse cardiac events (MACE), necrosis of heart muscle, and reducing...
Let’s face it, when it comes to...
10/16/2010
Cath Lab Digest

Feature

Case Report
10/15/2010
Lakshminarayan Yerra, MD, Ajanta De, MD, Neeraj Jolly, MD, DM University of Chicago Medical Center Chicago, Illinois
Lakshminarayan Yerra, MD, Ajanta De,...
Balloon angioplasty/stenting has emerged as a highly effective revascularization procedure for renal artery stenosis (RAS).1 The major complications of balloon angioplasty of the renal artery are dissection, perforation and thrombosis.2 Use...
Balloon angioplasty/stenting has emerged as a highly effective revascularization procedure for renal artery stenosis (RAS).1 The major complications of balloon angioplasty of the renal artery are dissection, perforation and thrombosis.2 Use...
Balloon angioplasty/stenting has...
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Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Experience
10/15/2010
Shishir Murarka, MD, Banner Estrella Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona; John E. Lassetter, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Phoenix Heart Center, Phoenix, Arizona; Karen L. Waters, MS, FNC-P, Phoenix Heart Center, Phoenix, Arizona; Stuart Scherger, St. Luke’s Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona; Richard R. Heuser, MD, FACC, FACP, FESC, FSCAI, Phoenix Heart Center, Phoenix, Arizona; Chief of Cardiology, St. Luke’s Medical Center, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona
Shishir Murarka, MD, Banner Estrella ...
Chronic total occlusions (CTO) in the coronary circulation present a major challenge for the interventional cardiologist. The past few years have witnessed the development of novel techniques and devices to successfully revascularize this...
Chronic total occlusions (CTO) in the coronary circulation present a major challenge for the interventional cardiologist. The past few years have witnessed the development of novel techniques and devices to successfully revascularize this...
Chronic total occlusions (CTO)...
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Cath Lab Digest

Department

Cath Lab Spotlight
10/15/2010
Ruth Russell, RT(R), CVT, Cath Lab Manager Wichita, Kansas
Ruth Russell, RT(R), CVT, Cath Lab Ma...
The Robert J. Dole Veteran Affairs Medical Center contains two cath labs, a GE Innova 3100 lab and a GE Innova 4100 lab (GE Medical Systems, Waukesha, WI). In these labs, we not only do cardiac caths and coronary interventions, but...
The Robert J. Dole Veteran Affairs Medical Center contains two cath labs, a GE Innova 3100 lab and a GE Innova 4100 lab (GE Medical Systems, Waukesha, WI). In these labs, we not only do cardiac caths and coronary interventions, but...
The Robert J. Dole Veteran...
10/15/2010
Cath Lab Digest

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