Volume 21 - Issue 4 - April 2013
04/04/2013
Cath Lab Digest talks with J. Brent Muhlestein, MD, FACC, Co-Director of Cardiology Research, Intermountain Health Care and Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah; Professor of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Cath Lab Digest talks with J. Brent M...
In acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients who receive stents in the cath lab, studies have demonstrated that if there is an inadequate amount of platelet inhibition despite the administration of dual antiplatelet therapy, many of these...
In acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients who receive stents in the cath lab, studies have demonstrated that if there is an inadequate amount of platelet inhibition despite the administration of dual antiplatelet therapy, many of these...
In acute coronary syndrome (ACS)...
04/04/2013
Cath Lab Digest
04/04/2013
Cath Lab Digest talks with Carlos E. Ruiz, MD, PhD, Professor of
Pediatrics and Medicine, Director, Structural and Congenital Heart
Disease, Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute-NSLIJ Health
System, New York, New York.
Cath Lab Digest talks with Carlos E. ...
A heart team approach means that the evaluation of the patients, the assessment, the decision-making process, the analysis, everything, is done from beginning to end in a joint manner and the procedures are done together. That is what we...
A heart team approach means that the evaluation of the patients, the assessment, the decision-making process, the analysis, everything, is done from beginning to end in a joint manner and the procedures are done together. That is what we...
A heart team approach means that...
04/04/2013
Cath Lab Digest
04/04/2013
Michele Impreveduto, MPA, RNC, Nurse Manager, Cardiac Cath Lab, Lenox Hill Hospital, on behalf of the Structural Heart Team at Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute-North Shore LIJ Health System, New York City, New York
Michele Impreveduto, MPA, RNC, Nurse ...
Under the FDA-approved expanded use protocol, the Structural Heart Team at Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute-NSLIJ Health System has successfully implanted the first CoreValve inside a degenerative aortic bioprosthesis (ViV) in the U.S.
Under the FDA-approved expanded use protocol, the Structural Heart Team at Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute-NSLIJ Health System has successfully implanted the first CoreValve inside a degenerative aortic bioprosthesis (ViV) in the U.S.
Under the FDA-approved expanded...
04/04/2013
Cath Lab Digest
Column
Cath Lab Management
04/04/2013
Kristin Truesdell and Cheyne Vernon, Corazon, Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Kristin Truesdell and Cheyne Vernon, ...
With profit margins narrowing, there has been increasing scrutiny of proper reimbursement, most particularly in the cath lab, since more and more procedures are shifting to the outpatient setting.
With profit margins narrowing, there has been increasing scrutiny of proper reimbursement, most particularly in the cath lab, since more and more procedures are shifting to the outpatient setting.
With profit margins narrowing,...
04/04/2013
Cath Lab Digest
Department
Cath Lab Spotlight
04/04/2013
Ashley Voet, RCIS, Stefanie Roper, RN, RT(R)(CI), Stephanie Kee, RN, Rocky Bailar, RCIS, Kearney, Nebraska
Ashley Voet, RCIS, Stefanie Roper, RN...
We recently moved into The Ron and Carol Cope Heart Center, a brand new addition to our hospital in September 2012. It features 3 GE labs with two primarily used for cardiac, and one dedicated to peripheral and pacemakers. A fourth lab is...
We recently moved into The Ron and Carol Cope Heart Center, a brand new addition to our hospital in September 2012. It features 3 GE labs with two primarily used for cardiac, and one dedicated to peripheral and pacemakers. A fourth lab is...
We recently moved into The Ron...
04/04/2013
Cath Lab Digest