Volume 20 - Issue 1 - January 2012
Department
SICP Section
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Want a HeatheCareer?Did you know the Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP) has an online career center, SICP Career Center? The SICP Career Center is part of the HEALTHeCAREERS Network, an integrated network of hundreds of...
Want a HeatheCareer?Did you know the Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP) has an online career center, SICP Career Center? The SICP Career Center is part of the HEALTHeCAREERS Network, an integrated network of hundreds of...
Want a HeatheCareer?Did you know...
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Careers
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Survey by Springboard Staffing; Edited by Tom Maloney, MHA, RCIS
Survey by Springboard Staffing; Edite...
National data released on compensation trendsDespite a sputtering economy, nationwide opportunities for cath lab professionals to earn higher than average wages exist, with the best-paying positions in the western United States, according to...
National data released on compensation trendsDespite a sputtering economy, nationwide opportunities for cath lab professionals to earn higher than average wages exist, with the best-paying positions in the western United States, according to...
National data released on...
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News
News
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Early Heart Attack Detection Device Developed by Angel Medical SystemsALERTS Pivotal Study will assess safety and effectivenessThe AngelMed Guardian system is designed to track significant changes in the heart’s electrical signal and alert...
Early Heart Attack Detection Device Developed by Angel Medical SystemsALERTS Pivotal Study will assess safety and effectivenessThe AngelMed Guardian system is designed to track significant changes in the heart’s electrical signal and alert...
Early Heart Attack Detection...
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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...
From Wikipedia: “A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system. It is often used to describe a transient fault that corrects itself, and is therefore difficult to troubleshoot. The term is particularly common in the computing and electronics...
From Wikipedia: “A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system. It is often used to describe a transient fault that corrects itself, and is therefore difficult to troubleshoot. The term is particularly common in the computing and electronics...
From Wikipedia: “A glitch is a...
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Your Path to Success: Expert Advice
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Susan N. Heck,
Senior Vice President
Corazon, Inc.,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Susan N. Heck, Senior Vice President ...
As a leader in healthcare over the last year, have you felt as though you were on an emotional roller coaster? Has the uncertainty of healthcare reform caused commotion in your Finance Department, stress for the quality- and...
As a leader in healthcare over the last year, have you felt as though you were on an emotional roller coaster? Has the uncertainty of healthcare reform caused commotion in your Finance Department, stress for the quality- and...
As a leader in healthcare over...
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Column
Cath Lab Management
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Jane Kiah, RN, Director of Invasive Services, Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute, Miami, Florida; Program Director, Innovations in Cardiac and Vascular Care: Advanced Interventions for Nurses and Technologists, The International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET)
Dick Stueve, RT, radiation safety consultant to Philips Healthcare, providing on-site radiation safety courses for physicians, nurses and technologists performing fluoroscopically guided vascular interventions.
Jane Kiah, RN, Director of Invasive S...
Marie Curie died due to excess exposure to her discovery, radium. Thomas Edison invented the fluoroscope, but stopped his work in this area when his assistant died of an x-ray overdose. Many years later, we have a better understanding of the...
Marie Curie died due to excess exposure to her discovery, radium. Thomas Edison invented the fluoroscope, but stopped his work in this area when his assistant died of an x-ray overdose. Many years later, we have a better understanding of the...
Marie Curie died due to excess...
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Technology Pulse
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Cath Lab Digest talks with Justin E. Davies, MBBS, MRCP, PhD, Walport Clinical
Lecturer in Cardiology and Consultant
Cardiologist at the National Heart and Lung Institute
of Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
Cath Lab Digest talks with Justin E. ...
What were some of the issues with fractional flow reserve that led to the development of iFR?Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is a technique that has clearly revolutionized what we do in the cath lab. It has taken us away from a look-and-treat...
What were some of the issues with fractional flow reserve that led to the development of iFR?Fractional flow reserve (FFR) is a technique that has clearly revolutionized what we do in the cath lab. It has taken us away from a look-and-treat...
What were some of the issues...
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Case Files by Dr. George
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Michael Hakimi DO, Ulrich Luft MD, and Jon C. George, MD,
Division of Interventional Cardiology and Endovascular Medicine, Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, New Jersey
Michael Hakimi DO, Ulrich Luft MD, an...
Case ReportA 59-year-old male presented with worsening dyspnea and orthopnea over the past five months. A review of systems revealed anorexia and an unintentional 40-pound weight loss over the past year. The patient has also been...
Case ReportA 59-year-old male presented with worsening dyspnea and orthopnea over the past five months. A review of systems revealed anorexia and an unintentional 40-pound weight loss over the past year. The patient has also been...
Case ReportA 59-year-old male...
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Calcium Corner
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Cath Lab Digest talks with Paul A. Gurbel, MD, Director, Sinai Center for Thrombosis Research, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore; Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Baltimore, Maryland.
Cath Lab Digest talks with Paul A. Gu...
Thirty-day ADAPT-DES (Assessment of Dual AntiPlatelet Therapy with Drug-Eluting Stents) data were presented at TCT in November. Can you describe the study?ADAPT-DES is a large, multi-center registry looking at the relation between...
Thirty-day ADAPT-DES (Assessment of Dual AntiPlatelet Therapy with Drug-Eluting Stents) data were presented at TCT in November. Can you describe the study?ADAPT-DES is a large, multi-center registry looking at the relation between...
Thirty-day ADAPT-DES (Assessment...
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Technology Pulse
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Cath Lab Digest talks with Ivan Feticio, Chief Cardiac Physiologist, Harefield Hospital, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Cath Lab Digest talks with Ivan Fetic...
Ivan Feticio shares his experience handling the Cardiosave™ intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP), the newest IABP from MAQUET Cardiovascular. Currently CE marked and having received FDA 510(k) clearance, Cardiosave is expected to be commercially...
Ivan Feticio shares his experience handling the Cardiosave™ intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP), the newest IABP from MAQUET Cardiovascular. Currently CE marked and having received FDA 510(k) clearance, Cardiosave is expected to be commercially...
Ivan Feticio shares his...
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