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Volume 28 - Issue 8 - August 2020

09/04/2020
In this article, three unique clinical scenarios are presented in which endovascular therapy prevented major amputations and improved patient outcomes.
In this article, three unique clinical scenarios are presented in which endovascular therapy prevented major amputations and improved patient outcomes.
In this article, three unique...
09/04/2020
Cath Lab Digest
08/06/2020
View the e-book version of Cath Lab Digest's August 2020 issue: featuring content from Rao, Foteh, Elder, Kern, Ali, Seto, and more!
View the e-book version of Cath Lab Digest's August 2020 issue: featuring content from Rao, Foteh, Elder, Kern, Ali, Seto, and more!
View the e-book version of Cath...
08/06/2020
Cath Lab Digest
08/04/2020
We are in phase one of a multi-state office-based laboratory (OBL) program, but right now we are at one pilot lab, which has now been open for two years. We perform peripheral angiograms and peripheral interventions, which include a spectrum...
We are in phase one of a multi-state office-based laboratory (OBL) program, but right now we are at one pilot lab, which has now been open for two years. We perform peripheral angiograms and peripheral interventions, which include a spectrum...
We are in phase one of a...
08/04/2020
Cath Lab Digest
Tips and Techniques
08/04/2020
Working in an outpatient endovascular center, also known as an office-based lab (OBL), prompts certain considerations that do not exist in a hospital setting. The most important consideration is that there is no immediate availability of an...
Working in an outpatient endovascular center, also known as an office-based lab (OBL), prompts certain considerations that do not exist in a hospital setting. The most important consideration is that there is no immediate availability of an...
Working in an outpatient...
08/04/2020
Cath Lab Digest
08/04/2020
In the OBL, we predominantly treat patients with disabling claudication despite optimal medical therapy, who have failed exercise walking programs. We do treat some patients with limb loss and ulceration in the OBL, but case selection is...
In the OBL, we predominantly treat patients with disabling claudication despite optimal medical therapy, who have failed exercise walking programs. We do treat some patients with limb loss and ulceration in the OBL, but case selection is...
In the OBL, we predominantly...
08/04/2020
Cath Lab Digest
Your Path to Success: Expert Advice
08/04/2020
Through Corazon’s work in developing and re-engineering cardiovascular, neuroscience, and orthopedic programs across the country, we have realized significant value when providers integrate planning efforts across these related specialties....
Through Corazon’s work in developing and re-engineering cardiovascular, neuroscience, and orthopedic programs across the country, we have realized significant value when providers integrate planning efforts across these related specialties....
Through Corazon’s work in...
08/04/2020
Cath Lab Digest

Column

Technology Pulse
08/04/2020
BD has now come out with the Halo One™ Thin-Walled Guiding Sheath, which makes it possible for stents to be placed through a 5 French (Fr) sheath up to a 7 mm diameter, which is phenomenal, especially for someone like myself who really enjoys...
BD has now come out with the Halo One™ Thin-Walled Guiding Sheath, which makes it possible for stents to be placed through a 5 French (Fr) sheath up to a 7 mm diameter, which is phenomenal, especially for someone like myself who really enjoys...
BD has now come out with the...
08/04/2020
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Editor's Corner
08/04/2020
This “Conversation in Cardiology” focuses on how patients needing a patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure in a community hospital are best managed. It is a continuation of an older discussion about how the transmission of high quality, high...
This “Conversation in Cardiology” focuses on how patients needing a patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure in a community hospital are best managed. It is a continuation of an older discussion about how the transmission of high quality, high...
This “Conversation in...
08/04/2020
Cath Lab Digest

Feature

Case Study
08/04/2020
Transradial percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) can accommodate the vast majority of procedures using a 6 French catheter system. In this case, we describe a transradial bifurcation stenting procedure guided by physiology. 
Transradial percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) can accommodate the vast majority of procedures using a 6 French catheter system. In this case, we describe a transradial bifurcation stenting procedure guided by physiology. 
Transradial percutaneous...
08/04/2020
Cath Lab Digest