Volume 19 - Issue 9 - September 2011

News

Clinical and Industry News

09/06/2011

Compiled by CathLab Digest

Compiled by CathLab Digest

ACIST Medical Systems Contrast Delivery System Facilitates Diagnosis of 10 Millionth PatientACIST Medical Systems, Inc., a Bracco Group company, offering contrast injection system technology for cardiovascular angiography, announced that...

ACIST Medical Systems Contrast...

09/06/2011

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News from the Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP)

09/06/2011

Compiled by CathLabDigest

Compiled by CathLabDigest

El Centro College Allied Health and Nursing Center, Dallas, TX: Providing an Exceptional Health Sciences Education ExperienceGeorge L. Nelson, Jr. RCIS, RCP, Coordinator ICVT ProgramEl Centro College, Dallas, TexasThe opening of the El Centro...

El Centro College Allied Health...

09/06/2011

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What Do You Think?

09/06/2011

Reader-Submitted Questions Answered by Readers

Reader-Submitted Questions Answered b...

Contact us with your question or respond to a question at cathlabdigest@aol.com. Answered!Mask Wear?We are trying to collect data from cath labs about requirements for the circulator and whether cath labs require the circulator to wear a mask...

09/06/2011

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Clinical Editor's Corner

Evaluation of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Lesions in the Cath Lab

09/06/2011

Morton Kern, MD
Clinical Editor
Chief Cardiology, Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital;
Associate Chief Cardiology, University California Irvine;
Professor of Medicine, UCI
Orange, California
mortonkern2007@gmail.com

Morton Kern, MDClinical EditorChief C...

Many of our patients undergoing cardiac catheterization have had bypass graft surgery (CABG). Some patients have had surgery over a decade or more ago; others within the last several years. Rarely do patients need to come to the cath lab...

Many of our patients undergoing...

09/06/2011

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New Devices

Pressure-Controlled Intermittent Coronary Sinus Occlusion (PICSO) for the Treatment of Inadequate Myocardial Reperfusion in STEMI Patients

09/06/2011

Cath Lab Digest talks with Jan Piek, MD, PhD, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Cath Lab Digest talks with Jan Piek, ...

The PICSO system (Miracor Medical Systems, Vienna, Austria) attempts to improve myocardial perfusion by redistributing blood flow into the damaged microcirculation immediately following percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial...

The PICSO system (Miracor...

09/06/2011

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Your Path to Success: Expert Advice

Building or Renovating an Interventional Suite: Proven Solutions for Common Pitfalls

09/06/2011

Stacey Lang, Director
Corazon, Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Stacey Lang, Director Corazon, Inc. P...

Whether the decision at your organization is to upgrade the existing facility or to build from the ground-up, construction or renovation of an interventional suite is no longer about the square footage and equipment selection alone. The...

Whether the decision at your...

09/06/2011

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Tips and Techniques

New Wire-Retained Method to Performing the Pre-Close Technique of Percutaneous Closure During Large-Bore Femoral Procedures

09/06/2011

Mirvat Alasnag, MD, FACP, FSCAI, King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia;
Branavan Umakanthan, DO, FACC, FSCAI, Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, Las Vegas, Nevada

Mirvat Alasnag, MD, FACP, FSCAI, King...

Large-bore vessel sheaths are being utilized more frequently in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, especially with the advent of newer technologies which demand larger bore sheaths, such as the Impella 2.5 ventricular assist device...

Large-bore vessel sheaths are...

09/06/2011

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New Devices

Arterial Closure is Now the First Step

09/06/2011

Cath Lab Digest talks with Kalyan Veerina, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Cardiovascular Institute of the South – Opelousas General Hospital, Opelousas, Louisiana, about his experience with the Axera^™ Access Device (Arstasis, Redwood City, California).

Cath Lab Digest talks with Kalyan Vee...

The arstaotomy procedure with the Axera Access device creates a surgically precise, ultra-low angle arteriotomy through the arterial wall and into the artery. The procedure begins with a thin-wall needle to puncture into the lumen of the...

The arstaotomy procedure with...

09/06/2011

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How and Why We Use Intravascular Ultrasound

09/06/2011

Cath Lab Digest talks with Daniel H. Steinberg, MD
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina

Cath Lab Digest talks with Daniel H. ...

Tell us about your lab.The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has 4 dedicated cath labs with 9 practicing interventionalists, 6 of whom are on faculty at MUSC. We do coronary, peripheral, and structural procedures.

Tell us about your lab.The...

09/06/2011

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Platelet Function Testing: Why We Do It on Everybody

09/06/2011

Cath Lab Digest talks with Richard A. Shlofmitz, MD
Chairman, Department of Cardiology, St. Francis Hospital
Roslyn, New York

Cath Lab Digest talks with Richard A....

09/06/2011

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