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Volume 19 - Issue 6 - June 2011

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Clinical and Industry News
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06/02/2011

Compiled by CathLab Digest

Compiled by CathLab Digest
Cordis Receives FDA Approval for Exoseal™ Vascular Closure DeviceCordis Corporation announced the approval of the Exoseal™ Vascular Closure Device in the U.S. Exoseal incorporates a number of new advances in technology and simplicity of...
Cordis Receives FDA Approval for Exoseal™ Vascular Closure DeviceCordis Corporation announced the approval of the Exoseal™ Vascular Closure Device in the U.S. Exoseal incorporates a number of new advances in technology and simplicity of...
Cordis Receives FDA Approval for...
06/02/2011
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What Do You Think?
What Do You Think?
06/02/2011
Reader-Submitted Questions Answered by Readers
Reader-Submitted Questions Answered b...
Manual sheath removal and post careI was wondering if there is any educational information you could recommend that I could share with my ICU and Telemetry units to help them to be more proficient in this area.Thank you, Margaret Frank Email:...
Manual sheath removal and post careI was wondering if there is any educational information you could recommend that I could share with my ICU and Telemetry units to help them to be more proficient in this area.Thank you, Margaret Frank Email:...
Manual sheath removal and post...
06/02/2011
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Editor's Corner
Do You Know Your Radiation Dose During Your Cath?
06/01/2011
I recently learned that I could see my real-time x-ray dose while doing a case. My x-ray system (Philips, Bothell, Wash.) has a display (see Figures) on the left side of the monitors that shows my table height, source-to-image distance (SID),...
I recently learned that I could see my real-time x-ray dose while doing a case. My x-ray system (Philips, Bothell, Wash.) has a display (see Figures) on the left side of the monitors that shows my table height, source-to-image distance (SID),...
I recently learned that I could...
06/01/2011
Cath Lab Digest
Ask the Clinical Instructor
Ask the Clinical Instructor: A Q&A Column for Those New to the Cath Lab
06/01/2011
“When I was first taught how to do angiograms, I was told that you never want to leave blood in the sidearm of the sheath. I was to aspirate to make sure there was no clot and then flush with sterile heparinized saline. Now, we are composing...
“When I was first taught how to do angiograms, I was told that you never want to leave blood in the sidearm of the sheath. I was to aspirate to make sure there was no clot and then flush with sterile heparinized saline. Now, we are composing...
“When I was first taught how to...
06/01/2011
Cath Lab Digest

Department

SICP Section
News from the Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP)
06/02/2011

Compiled by CathLabDigest

Compiled by CathLabDigest
SICP UPDATERegister 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.   
SICP UPDATERegister 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.   
SICP UPDATERegister Today: SICP...
06/02/2011
Cath Lab Digest
Your Path to Success: Expert Advice
Looking into the Crystal Ball…Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and the Future
06/01/2011
Our December 2009 Cath Lab Digest article entitled “State of the Union: What is Keeping You Up at Night?” made some predictions about the future of healthcare. One prediction was that a new focus on prevention and chronic disease management...
Our December 2009 Cath Lab Digest article entitled “State of the Union: What is Keeping You Up at Night?” made some predictions about the future of healthcare. One prediction was that a new focus on prevention and chronic disease management...
Our December 2009 Cath Lab...
06/01/2011
Cath Lab Digest
Data Registries
What is the NCDR and Why is it Important to Me?
06/01/2011
So much research is happening today in cardiology. Who is doing the research, and where are the patients coming from?There are many hospitals nationwide participating in research as a part of the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR®)....
So much research is happening today in cardiology. Who is doing the research, and where are the patients coming from?There are many hospitals nationwide participating in research as a part of the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR®)....
So much research is happening...
06/01/2011
Cath Lab Digest
Devices in the Lab
Rotational Atherectomy: An Invaluable Tool for Complex Lesions
06/01/2011
One of the Achilles’ heels of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is severe, complex calcification. The presence of severe calcification in vessels may prevent the full balloon dilatation of a lesion. Optimal stent expansion and...
One of the Achilles’ heels of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is severe, complex calcification. The presence of severe calcification in vessels may prevent the full balloon dilatation of a lesion. Optimal stent expansion and...
One of the Achilles’ heels of...
06/01/2011
Cath Lab Digest
A Peripheral Fem-to-Fem Bypass With Impella Use
06/01/2011
Cath Lab Digest talks with Wissam Gharib, MD, FACC, FSCAI, West Virginia University Heart Institute, West Virginia University Hospitals, Morgantown, West Virginia, about his use of the left ventricular assist Impella device (Abiomed, Danvers,...
Cath Lab Digest talks with Wissam Gharib, MD, FACC, FSCAI, West Virginia University Heart Institute, West Virginia University Hospitals, Morgantown, West Virginia, about his use of the left ventricular assist Impella device (Abiomed, Danvers,...
Cath Lab Digest talks with...
06/01/2011
Cath Lab Digest

Feature

Case Report
Treating a Chronic Total Occlusion Via the Transradial Approach
06/01/2011
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Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FAHA, FACC 

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