Volume 23 - Issue 1 - January, 2015

Column

Clinical Editor's Corner

SCAI is Opening its Membership to the Entire Cath Lab Team!

01/21/2015

For the first time in the history of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), we now invite our partners in the lab to become members of the SCAI. We work together, play together, and now learn together as...

For the first time in the...

01/21/2015

Cath Lab Digest

Clinical Editor's Corner

Conversations in Cardiology: What Should You Do If Your Guide Wire Breaks? Dealing With Equipment Malfunction

01/13/2015

Compiled by Morton J. Kern with contributions from Malcolm Bell, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Sam Butman, Verde Valley, Arizona; Kirk Garrett, New York City, New York; Allen Jeremias, Stony Brook, New York; Aaron Kaplan, Dartmouth, New Hampshire; Lloyd Klein, Chicago, Illinois; Ajay Kirtane, Columbia University, New York City,
New York; Mitchell Krucoff, Duke University, Raleigh, North Carolina; Michael Ragosta, Charlottesville, Virginia;
George Vetrovec, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia; Mladen Vidovich, University of Illinois, Chicago,
Illinois; Bonnie Weiner, University of Massachusetts, Worchester, Massachusetts.

Compiled by Morton J. Kern with contr...

A challenging access case required a coronary 0.014-inch wire to deliver a micropuncture sheath into the internal jugular vein (the standard micropuncture wire couldn’t be manipulated into the superior vena cava [SVC]). At some point during...

A challenging access case...

01/13/2015

Cath Lab Digest

Case Files by Dr. George

Alcohol Septal Ablation as a Percutaneous Therapy for Symptomatic Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy

01/13/2015

Thomas Waggoner, DO, Richard Kovach, MD, Kintur Sanghvi, MD, Vincent Varghese, DO, and Jon C. George, MD, Department of Interventional Cardiology and Endovascular Medicine, Deborah Heart & Lung Center, Browns Mills, New Jersey

Thomas Waggoner, DO, Richard Kovach, ...

Percutaneous alcohol septal ablation has received more recent attention as an attractive alternative for drugrefractory hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and can be performed with excellent results and immediate clinical outcomes. We...

Percutaneous alcohol septal...

01/13/2015

Cath Lab Digest

Calcium Corner

ABSORB III and IV: Evaluating the Safety and Effectiveness of the Absorb Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold

01/13/2015

Cath Lab Digest talks with James B. Hermiller, MD, FACC, FSCAI,
Director of Interventional Cardiology, St. Vincent Medical Group,
Indianapolis, Indiana.

Cath Lab Digest talks with James B. H...

With the Absorb BVS, by a year, there is a loss of some of the radial strength. By two years, we start to see loss of the scaffold itself, meaning the mass and structure of the device, and by three to three and a half years, the BVS is gone.

With the Absorb BVS, by a year,...

01/13/2015

Cath Lab Digest

Congratulations!

01/19/2015

This month, Cath Lab Digest would like to congratulate...

This month, Cath Lab Digest would lik...

This month, Cath Lab Digest would like to congratulate…

This month, Cath Lab Digest...

01/19/2015

Cath Lab Digest

Your Path to Success: Expert Advice

A Look Ahead… Further Implementation of Healthcare Reform in 2015: Cardiac Cath Program Implications

01/13/2015

Ross Swanson, Executive Vice President, Corazon, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ross Swanson, Executive Vice Presiden...

It has become quite apparent that the impact of national healthcare reform is going to be broadly felt across hospital departments, and the confines of the cardiac catheterization laboratory (CCL) are no exception.

It has become quite apparent...

01/13/2015

Cath Lab Digest

Applying a Cost-Effectiveness Methodology to Angina

01/13/2015

Cath Lab Digest talks with David J. Cohen, MD, MSc, Professor of Medicine,
University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Director of Cardiovascular Research,
Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, Missouri.

Cath Lab Digest talks with David J. C...

There are many causes of angina, but what is very clear from research that has been done over the last several decades is that angina has an important impact on patients’ quality of life. It limits the activities they do, it limits their...

There are many causes of angina,...

01/13/2015

Cath Lab Digest

Feature

Commentary & Technique

An Alternative to Complex Saphenous Vein Graft Intervention With a Covered Stent: The Suck-U-Surge Technique

01/13/2015

Richard R. Heuser, MD, FACC, FACP, FESC, FSCAI, Chief of Cardiology, St. Luke’s Medical Center, Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona,
College of Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona

Richard R. Heuser, MD, FACC, FACP, FE...

When embolic protection is not possible, physicians can use this fairly simple technique in order to prevent distal embolization. Although we do not disagree with the utilization of a covered stent for a complex lesion, sometimes the use of a...

When embolic protection is not...

01/13/2015

Cath Lab Digest

Department

CLI Perspectives

An Overview of CLI Therapies

01/13/2015

J.A. Mustapha, MD, Metro Health Hospital, Wyoming, Michigan

J.A. Mustapha, MD, Metro Health Hospi...

Introducing a new, monthly column for CLD readers, headed by section editor J.A. Mustapha, MD, Metro Health Hospital, Wyoming, Michigan. Dr. Mustapha shares his perspective on available therapies for critical limb ischemia and his plans for...

Introducing a new, monthly...

01/13/2015

Cath Lab Digest

Cath Lab Spotlight

Spotlight: Sheridan Memorial Hospital Cardiac Cath Lab

01/13/2015

Jennifer Rasp-Vaughn, RN, BS, RCIS, Cath Lab Manager, Sheridan, Wyoming

Jennifer Rasp-Vaughn, RN, BS, RCIS, C...

Like most of Wyoming, Sheridan is very remote to most other facilities and cath labs in the state. Up until July 2014, Sheridan was only the third cath lab in the state.

Like most of Wyoming, Sheridan...

01/13/2015

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