Volume 19 - Issue 5 - May 2011

News

Clinical and Industry News

05/03/2011

Compiled by Cath Lab Digest

AngioJet® Solent™ Proxi Thrombectomy CatheterMedrad Interventional (Indianola, Pennsylvania) announces the availability of the Solent Proxi thrombectomy catheter, designed for large, difficult-to-remove thrombus like that found in deep vein...

AngioJet® Solent™ Proxi...

05/03/2011

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Column

What Do You Think?

05/03/2011

Reader-Submitted Questions Answered by Readers

Reader-Submitted Questions Answered b...

Questions AnsweredSterile Medication DistributionWho can/cannot hand off medication to the CVT or physician on the sterile field? If the circulator is a CVT, are they still able to handle these medications and put them on sterile field? In...

Questions AnsweredSterile...

05/03/2011

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Department

SICP Section

News from the Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP)

05/03/2011

Compiled by CathLabDigest

Compiled by CathLabDigest

Register Today: SICP Annual Meeting, July 28-30, 2011, Boston MARegistration is open and available online at www.sicp.com. Please make your plans to participate in this much-anticipated meeting. Topics include: exploration of new techniques,...

05/03/2011

Cath Lab Digest

Letters to the Clinical Editor

05/03/2011

CLD Readers

Dear Dr. Kern, I read with interest your article on “Contrast Anaphylactoid Reaction: Is There a Preventative Treatment?” However, after reading the article, I am more puzzled.

Dear Dr. Kern, I read with...

05/03/2011

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In the Lab

Making Waves: The Use of Waveform Capnography for Procedural Sedation in the Cardiac Cath Lab

05/03/2011

Travis Mackey, RN, CCRN, RCIS, EMT-P, Staff Nurse, Cox South, Springfield, Missouri

Travis Mackey, RN, CCRN, RCIS, EMT-P,...

Capnography is an underutilized technology that could potentially save lives. By definition, it is simply the measurement of a patient’s exhaled carbon dioxide represented as a waveform on a monitor, but it is so much more than that. It...

Capnography is an underutilized...

05/03/2011

Cath Lab Digest

Successful Rotoblator Use Via the Right Radial Approach

05/03/2011

Orlando Marrero, RCIS, MBA, Cardiac Cath Lab Director, Bostick Heart Center, Winter Haven Hospital, Winter Haven, Florida

Orlando Marrero, RCIS, MBA, Cardiac C...

An 81-year-old male with a history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia underwent a left heart catheterization procedure following a positive stress test and was referred to Zaheed Tai, DO, for a possible intervention. The left heart cath,...

An 81-year-old male with a...

05/03/2011

Cath Lab Digest

Your Path to Success: Expert Advice

Celebrating Excellence: A Salute to Cardiac Cath Lab Nurses

05/03/2011

Marsha Knapik, RN, MSN, Senior Consultant, Corazon, Inc. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Marsha Knapik, RN, MSN, Senior Consu...

Nurse’s Week allows us to set aside some time each year to acknowledge and celebrate the contribution nurses make in our world. This year, Nurse’s Week will be celebrated from May 6th (also known as Nurse’s Day) ending May 12th (Florence...

Nurse’s Week allows us to set...

05/03/2011

Cath Lab Digest

New Devices

Revolutionizing Femoral Access: A Move to the Arstaotomy Technique in Accessing and Closing the Femoral Artery

05/03/2011

Cath Lab Digest talks with Frank Kresock, MD, Cath Lab Director, Cardiovascular Center, Parker, Arizona

Cath Lab Digest talks with Frank Kres...

Cath Lab Digest talks with Frank Kresock, MD, Cath Lab Director, Cardiovascular Center, Parker, Arizona, about his experience with the Arstasis device, which changes the approach to femoral arterial access in order to facilitate artery...

Cath Lab Digest talks with Frank...

05/03/2011

Cath Lab Digest

Feature

Review

Book Review: "The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart" By Dr. Thomas Amidon and Stephen Amidon

05/03/2011

Review by James McRae, RCIS

The juxtaposition between medicine and literature has provoked a unique book called “The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart.” Co-writer Stephen Amidon is a novelist and literary critic. His previous frame of reference for ...

The juxtaposition between...

05/03/2011

Cath Lab Digest

Case Report

Successful Implantation of Impella 2.5 Through Left Femoral Approach After Angioplasty of Aortic Stent Graft in High-Risk PCI

05/03/2011

Tamam Mohamad, MD, Ahmad Munir, MD, Hamza Aurakzai, MD, Theodore Schreiber, MD, FACC, President, Detroit Medical Center Cardiovascular Institute, Division Chief, Clinical Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology Program Director, Wayne State University-Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan

Tamam Mohamad, MD, Ahmad Munir, MD, H...

AbstractIntroduction. Left ventricular assist devices help in reducing the cardiac workload, and provide circulatory assistance and protection to the myocardium and vital organs in patients with severe systolic dysfunction. Impella 2.5, a...

AbstractIntroduction. Left...

05/03/2011

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