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Volume 26 - Issue 2 - February 2018

Column

Clinical Editor's Corner
02/06/2018

Morton J. Kern, MD

Morton J. Kern, MD
When FFRCT and angio-derived FFR technology ultimately become more widely available, they will radically change the way diagnostic angiography is performed in the same way that invasive FFR changed the way we approach patients needing...
When FFRCT and angio-derived FFR technology ultimately become more widely available, they will radically change the way diagnostic angiography is performed in the same way that invasive FFR changed the way we approach patients needing...
When FFRCT and angio-derived FFR...
02/06/2018
Cath Lab Digest

Department

Cath Lab Spotlight
02/06/2018

Derrick Bowen, BSN, RN, Team Lead; Roxanne Gardner, RCES, Lead  Invasive Cardio Tech, Angela Knox, MSN, Jason Weatherly, BSN, CCRN

Rami Khouzam, MD, FACC, FACP, FASNC, FASE, FSCAI, Program Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship, Vice Chair of Medicine, Associate Chief of Cardiology, Associate Program Director, Cardiology Fellowship; Associate Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center; Medical Director, Cardiac Cath Lab, Methodist University Hospital; President, Unified Medical Staff, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Memphis, Tennessee

Derrick Bowen, BSN, RN, Team Lead; Ro...
As a teaching facility, Methodist University Cath Lab serves as a model for the organization in integrating new technology.
As a teaching facility, Methodist University Cath Lab serves as a model for the organization in integrating new technology.
As a teaching facility,...
02/06/2018
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Spotlight
02/06/2018

Derrick Bowen, BSN, RN, Team Lead; Roxanne Gardner, RCES, Lead  Invasive Cardio Tech, Angela Knox, MSN, Jason Weatherly, BSN, CCRN

Rami Khouzam, MD, FACC, FACP, FASNC, FASE, FSCAI, Program Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship, Vice Chair of Medicine, Associate Chief of Cardiology, Associate Program Director, Cardiology Fellowship; Associate Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center; Medical Director, Cardiac Cath Lab, Methodist University Hospital; President, Unified Medical Staff, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Memphis, Tennessee

Derrick Bowen, BSN, RN, Team Lead; Ro...
As a teaching facility, Methodist University Cath Lab serves as a model for the organization in integrating new technology.
As a teaching facility, Methodist University Cath Lab serves as a model for the organization in integrating new technology.
As a teaching facility,...
02/06/2018
Cath Lab Digest
CLI Perspectives
02/06/2018

CLI Perspectives is headed by section editor J.A. Mustapha, MD, Advanced Cardiac and Vascular Amputation Prevention Centers, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

J.A. Mustapha, MD, Fadi Saab, MD, Advanced Cardiac and Vascular Amputation Prevention Centers, Grand Rapids, Michigan

CLI Perspectives is headed by section...
Treating complex lesions in tibial and plantar vessels require a unique combination of flexibility and strength. The operator needs to think about wires that can assist in crossing complex long lesions or chronic total occlusions (CTOs).
Treating complex lesions in tibial and plantar vessels require a unique combination of flexibility and strength. The operator needs to think about wires that can assist in crossing complex long lesions or chronic total occlusions (CTOs).
Treating complex lesions in...
02/06/2018
Cath Lab Digest
02/06/2018

Cath Lab Digest talks with David E. Kandzari, MD, Director of Interventional Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research, Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, Georgia.

Cath Lab Digest talks with David E. K...
There is evidence to suggest that as many as one in three patients are never screened for SCD risk; this is something that needs to be addressed. Interventional cardiologists are in the best position to identify and screen all patients who...
There is evidence to suggest that as many as one in three patients are never screened for SCD risk; this is something that needs to be addressed. Interventional cardiologists are in the best position to identify and screen all patients who...
There is evidence to suggest...
02/06/2018
Cath Lab Digest
Your Path to Success: Expert Advice
02/06/2018
Programs and providers may have different points of view on how and where to reduce unnecessary care and control the costs of healthcare; bundles have had success in reducing costs while meeting or improving quality benchmarks. Today, bundles...
Programs and providers may have different points of view on how and where to reduce unnecessary care and control the costs of healthcare; bundles have had success in reducing costs while meeting or improving quality benchmarks. Today, bundles...
Programs and providers may have...
02/06/2018
Cath Lab Digest
Your Path to Success: Expert Advice
02/06/2018
For those of us at Corazon who worked directly with Dr. Wharton, his loss is more than that of a friend and colleague, but of someone who was willing to challenge the establishment and status quo in true, unwavering patient advocacy.
For those of us at Corazon who worked directly with Dr. Wharton, his loss is more than that of a friend and colleague, but of someone who was willing to challenge the establishment and status quo in true, unwavering patient advocacy.
For those of us at Corazon who...
02/06/2018
Cath Lab Digest

Feature

Case Report
02/06/2018

Cath Lab Digest talks with Ankur Kalra, MD, FACP, FACC, FSCAI, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Structural Heart Interventional Cardiologist, Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio.

 
Cath Lab Digest talks with Ankur Kalr...
The entire duration of the case took almost 6 hours and we were not able to establish flow until the very last stent.
The entire duration of the case took almost 6 hours and we were not able to establish flow until the very last stent.
The entire duration of the case...
02/06/2018
Cath Lab Digest
Case Report
02/06/2018

Edward H. Nabet, DO, Bora Toklu, MD, Kishore Nallu, MD, John T. Fox, MD, Ramesh M. Gowda, MD

Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York

Edward H. Nabet, DO, Bora Toklu, MD, ...
We report a case of cardiac arrest caused by total occlusion of the left main coronary artery during Impella-assisted percutaneous coronary intervention. Manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation combined with revascularization of the left main...
We report a case of cardiac arrest caused by total occlusion of the left main coronary artery during Impella-assisted percutaneous coronary intervention. Manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation combined with revascularization of the left main...
We report a case of cardiac...
02/06/2018
Cath Lab Digest
Case Series
02/06/2018

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

Eddie Lipan, MD, Tempe St. Luke’s Wound Care Center

Phoenix, Arizona

Richard R. Heuser, FACC, FACP, FESC, ...
Even though many cases of critical limb ischemia can be treated with either an endovascular or surgical approach, this small series discusses three cases that underwent a surgical approach that subsequently failed. In each case, the surgeon...
Even though many cases of critical limb ischemia can be treated with either an endovascular or surgical approach, this small series discusses three cases that underwent a surgical approach that subsequently failed. In each case, the surgeon...
Even though many cases of...
02/06/2018
Cath Lab Digest

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