Volume 20 - Issue 3 - March 2012
03/02/2012
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AngioDynamics to Acquire Navilyst Medical for $372 MillionAngioDynamics, a provider of innovative, minimally invasive medical devices for vascular access, surgery, peripheral vascular disease and oncology, announced it has entered into a...
AngioDynamics to Acquire Navilyst Medical for $372 MillionAngioDynamics, a provider of innovative, minimally invasive medical devices for vascular access, surgery, peripheral vascular disease and oncology, announced it has entered into a...
AngioDynamics to Acquire...
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03/02/2012
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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 during regular angiographic/interventional procedures, including pacemaker...
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 during regular angiographic/interventional procedures, including pacemaker...
Answered!Mask Wear?We are trying...
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Cath Lab Digest
03/02/2012
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Compiled by CathLabDigest
News from the Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP)Register for an RCIS or RCES Review Course Today! The Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP) will present their Signature Registered Cardiovascular...
News from the Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP)Register for an RCIS or RCES Review Course Today! The Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP) will present their Signature Registered Cardiovascular...
News from the Society of...
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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...
Since the FAME II study made such headlines recently, I thought I would add my two cents and respond to some of the comments, the good and bad, that surrounded the press release from St. Jude at the end of January 2012. But first, my...
Since the FAME II study made such headlines recently, I thought I would add my two cents and respond to some of the comments, the good and bad, that surrounded the press release from St. Jude at the end of January 2012. But first, my...
Since the FAME II study made...
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Vindhya Hindnavis, MD, Sung-Hae Cho, MD,
Sheldon Goldberg, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hahnemann
University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Vindhya Hindnavis, MD, Sung-Hae Cho, ...
Abstract: Saphenous vein grafts are prone to degeneration and occlusion. Vein graft disease continues to be a significant problem in maintaining long-term benefits after coronary artery bypass surgery. The neointimal hyperplasia and...
Abstract: Saphenous vein grafts are prone to degeneration and occlusion. Vein graft disease continues to be a significant problem in maintaining long-term benefits after coronary artery bypass surgery. The neointimal hyperplasia and...
Abstract: Saphenous vein grafts...
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Questions are answered by:
Todd Ginapp, EMT-P, RCIS, FSICP
Questions are answered by: Todd Ginap...
Todd is the Cardiology Manager for Memorial Hermann Southeast in Houston, Texas. He also teaches an online RCIS Review course for Spokane Community College, in Spokane, Washington, and regularly presents with RCIS Review Courses.
Todd is the Cardiology Manager for Memorial Hermann Southeast in Houston, Texas. He also teaches an online RCIS Review course for Spokane Community College, in Spokane, Washington, and regularly presents with RCIS Review Courses.
Todd is the Cardiology Manager...
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David Fuller, Vice President Corazon, Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
David Fuller, Vice President Corazon,...
In Corazon’s experience, the service line management concept, when applied in healthcare, provides an effective means to achieve the full potential of a hospital specialty program. Through the use of this concept and the designation of a...
In Corazon’s experience, the service line management concept, when applied in healthcare, provides an effective means to achieve the full potential of a hospital specialty program. Through the use of this concept and the designation of a...
In Corazon’s experience, the...
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Jim Collins, CPC, CCC
CardiologyBiller.Com
Jim Collins, CPC, CCCCardiologyBiller...
Medicare’s Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Initiative is an outsourcing effort in which contractors assess physician compliance with existing Medicare policy. Medicare gives the contractors authority to summon supporting documentation without...
Medicare’s Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Initiative is an outsourcing effort in which contractors assess physician compliance with existing Medicare policy. Medicare gives the contractors authority to summon supporting documentation without...
Medicare’s Recovery Audit...
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Aleksandr Dzyuin, RN, BSN, RCIS, PCCN-CMC, Staff Nurse, Cardiac Cath Lab, Lakewood Hospital, Lakewood, Ohio
Aleksandr Dzyuin, RN, BSN, RCIS, PCCN...
While angioplasty and angiography procedures are minimally invasive, the prospect of undergoing a procedure on a major organ like the heart often triggers a great deal of patient anxiety, especially when it is the patient’s first time...
While angioplasty and angiography procedures are minimally invasive, the prospect of undergoing a procedure on a major organ like the heart often triggers a great deal of patient anxiety, especially when it is the patient’s first time...
While angioplasty and...
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Cath Lab Digest talks with Dr. Matthias Götberg, Department of Coronary Heart Disease,
Skane University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
Cath Lab Digest talks with Dr. Matthi...
CHILL-MI is a prospective, randomized, multi-center study designed to further evaluate the safety and effectiveness of Philip’s InnerCool RTx endovascular cooling system in patients suffering from ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)....
CHILL-MI is a prospective, randomized, multi-center study designed to further evaluate the safety and effectiveness of Philip’s InnerCool RTx endovascular cooling system in patients suffering from ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)....
CHILL-MI is a prospective,...
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