Bonnie H. Weiner, MD, MBA, FSCAI, FACC

Left Main PCI in Interventional Labs Without On-Site Surgery: When is High Risk Too High?

What’s the purpose of the Accreditation for Cardiovascular Excellence (ACE) organization? The overall purpose is to accredit facilities performing invasive cardiovascular and endovascular procedures. By doing so, we hope to set an objective,...

What’s the purpose of the...

09/20/2010

Cath Lab Digest

Clinical Editor's Corner

02/16/2023

Kirk N. Garratt , MD, MSc;

Conversations in Cardiology – Does Every Primary PCI Lab Need an Impella* (or Its Equivalent)?

Christopher J. White , DO, MD;

The issue of what constitutes safe practice in the no-SOS labs is not trivial. Before I present a summary of the revised consensus statement, I thought I would stimulate our thinking by providing a real case from our lab, what my colleagues...

The issue of what constitutes...

02/16/2023

Cath Lab Digest

Clinical Editor's Corner

07/26/2016

Aaron V. Kaplan ;

Lloyd W. Klein , MD;

Gregg W. Stone , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Peter B. Berger , MD;

David E. Kandzari , MD;

George W. Vetrovec , MD;

Ted Feldman , MD, FSCAI, FACC, FESC;

Jim Blankenship , MD;

Navin Kumar Kapur , MD;

Should Diagnostic-Only Operators Continue? Retool or Retire Redux

Christopher J. White , DO, MD;

Jeffrey W. Moses , MD;

Ajay J. Kirtane , MD, SM;

Steven R. Bailey , MD;

In this “Conversation in Cardiology”, Dr. Ted Feldman from Evanston Hospital, Evanston, Illinois, asks, “Is the availability of Impella a requirement for every STEMI [ST-elevation myocardial infarction] program (even in lower volume programs...

In this “Conversation in...

07/26/2016

Cath Lab Digest

Clinical Editor's Corner

12/05/2021

Mitchell W. Krucoff , MD;

Samuel M. Butman , MD;

Jeffrey Marshall ;

Carl L. Tommaso , MD;

J. Dawn Abbott , MD;

David J. Cohen , MD, MPH, MSc;

Conversations in Cardiology: Futility in Patients With STEMI – Do All for All? (Includes Video Discussion)

An interventionist in the southeastern United States asked me this question at TCT. The issue is quite an old one, but still relevant and perhaps more so now with the proliferation of fractional flow reserve (FFR), instantaneous wave-free...

An interventionist in the...

12/05/2021

Cath Lab Digest

Clinical Editor's Corner

03/02/2021

Stephen R. Ramee , MD;

Timothy D. Henry , MD;

Mitchell W. Krucoff , MD;

George W. Vetrovec , MD;

Samuel M. Butman , MD;

Jeffrey Marshall ;

Paul S. Teirstein , MD, FACC;

Spencer B. King III, MD;

Carl L. Tommaso , MD;

Steven L. Goldberg , MD;

Conversations in Cardiology: How Should We Report the Stenosis – Worst View, Averaged, or Just Forget About a Number?

Richard Chazal , MD;

Steven R. Bailey , MD;

Michael Ragosta , MD;

Kirk N. Garratt , MD, MSc;

Lloyd W. Klein , MD;

How should we manage the ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patient coming to the emergency department (ED) who appears to be so critically ill that further care would be futile?

How should we manage the...

03/02/2021

Cath Lab Digest

Clinical Editor's Corner

01/06/2016

Mitchell W. Krucoff , MD;

Samuel M. Butman , MD;

Lloyd W. Klein , MD;

Aaron V. Kaplan ;

Gregg W. Stone , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Carl L. Tommaso , MD;

James C. Blankenship , MD;

John Hodgson , MD, FSCAI, FACC;

Whatever Happened to the Routine Use of Protamine?

Jeffrey W. Moses , MD;

George W. Vetrovec , MD;

Ajay J. Kirtane , MD, SM;

Allen Jeremias , MD, MSc;

Barry F. Uretsky , MD;

Jeffrey J. Popma , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Our colleague and cath lab expert, Dr. Barry Uretsky from the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, started this conversation with one of the oldest and probably most important questions about coronary angiography, and that is, how should we...

Our colleague and cath lab...

01/06/2016

Cath Lab Digest

Clinical Editor's Corner

08/04/2021

Mauricio G. Cohen , MD, FACC;

Steven R. Bailey , MD;

Stephen R. Ramee , MD;

Nils P. Johnson , MD, MS;

Farouc A. Jaffer , MD, PhD;

Samuel M. Butman , MD;

Jeffrey Marshall ;

Kreton Mavromatis , MD;

Chet Rihal ;

Kirk N. Garrett ;

From Cath Lab Digest: Cath and COVID-19: What Should We Do?

Pranav M. Patel ;

Jeffrey W. Moses , MD;

Dean J. Kereiakes , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Steven L. Goldberg , MD;

Neal S. Kleiman , MD;

Early in the field of cardiac catheterization, heparin anticoagulation was required for almost every procedure in order to prevent thrombosis on the catheter, as the initial catheter materials, like Dacron, were highly thrombogenic. Often the...

Early in the field of cardiac...

08/04/2021

Cath Lab Digest

News

03/16/2020

James C. Blankenship , MD;

Habib Samady , MD;

Herbert D. Aronow , MD, MPH, FACC, FSCAI;

Arnold H. Seto , MD, MPA, CCDS, FACC, FSCAI;

Ajay J. Kirtane , MD, SM;

James M. McCabe , MD, FACC;

Steven R. Bailey , MD;

Prashant Kaul , MD, FACC, FSCAI;