Mauricio G. Cohen, MD, FACC

Watch/listen (video included in article below) as Dr. Kern and Dr. Arnold H. Seto discuss this article in a 30-minute Clinical Editor's Corner Live presentation that took place on Thurs, January 28th at 1:30pm ET.

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12/28/2020

Cath Lab Digest

Commentary

Bivalirudin and Transradial Access ‚Äì The End of the Bleeding Era for Catheterization Procedures?

02/28/2011

Mauricio G. Cohen , MD, FACC;

Apurva Badheka , MD;

The most common complications of catheterization procedures are access-site bleeding and hematoma which occur in 2–10% of all procedures.1 Even after multivariable adjustment, numerous studies have shown periprocedural bleeding to be an...

The most common complications of...

02/28/2011

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Clinical Editor's Corner

Securing the Radial Sheath: An Update on a Pesky But Persistent Little Problem

11/03/2020

Peter J. Golden , RN;

Gurpreet S. Sandhu , MD, PhD;

Joe Moore ;

Larry S. Dean , MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI;

Karen Smith ;

Kirk N. Garratt , MD, MSc;

Emmanouil S. Brilakis , MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI;

Neal S. Kleiman , MD;

Morton J. Kern , MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA;

David J. Cohen , MD, MPH, MSc;

Jeffrey W. Moses , MD;

John Bittl , MD;

Mauricio G. Cohen , MD, FACC;

Mitchell W. Krucoff , MD;

Keith G. Oldroyd , MD, MBChB, FRCP;

Jeffrey Marshall ;

My daughter, at age 6, said to me many years ago when I was struggling with some vexing problem, “Dad, it’s not rocket surgery”. She meant to say rocket science, but we talked a lot of medicine then. Okay, I agree that securing the radial...

My daughter, at age 6, said to...

11/03/2020

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Cath Lab Spotlight

University of Miami Hospital Elaine and Sydney Sussman Cardiac Catheterization Lab

09/13/2010

Kymberlee Manni , RCIS, PhD;

Chris Sheffield , RN;

George Benelli , RT(R), RA;

Mauricio G. Cohen , MD, FACC;

Tell us about your cath lab. The University of Miami Hospital (UMH) has 5 total procedure rooms, including 1 hybrid room, 2 electrophysiology procedure (EP) rooms, and 2 cath labs. We performed 3,409 procedures in 2009. In 2010, we are...

Tell us about your cath lab. The...

09/13/2010

Cath Lab Digest

Clinical Editor's Corner

Bare Metal Stents – RIP?

10/02/2022

Allen Jeremias , MD, MSc;

William M. Suh , MD;

Stephen R. Ramee , MD;

Peter Ver Lee , MD;

Mitchell W. Krucoff , MD;

Samuel M. Butman , MD;

Aaron V. Kaplan ;

Morton J. Kern , MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA;

Jonathan M. Tobis , MD;

Jeffrey W. Moses , MD;

Dean J. Kereiakes , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Kirk N. Garrett ;

Bernhard Meier , MD, FACC, FESC;

Sunil V. Rao , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Malcolm R. Bell , MD;

Ajay J. Kirtane , MD, SM;

Neal S. Kleiman , MD;

Larry S. Dean , MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI;

Mauricio G. Cohen , MD, FACC;

David G. Rizik , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

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

For at least a decade, we have been in a drug-eluting stent (DES) era. Almost all studies point to superiority of DES over bare metal stents with regard to restenosis, but past controversies included the incidence of thrombosis and short...

For at least a decade, we have...

10/02/2022

Cath Lab Digest

Cath Lab Spotlight

University of Miami Hospital Elaine and Sydney Sussman Cardiac Catheterization Lab

09/13/2010

Mauricio G. Cohen , MD, FACC;

Chris Sheffield , RN;

George Benelli , RT(R), RA;

Kymberlee Manni , RCIS, PhD;

Tell us about your cath lab. The...

09/13/2010

Cath Lab Digest

Clinical Editor's Corner

Conversations in Cardiology: Do We Need to Document Balloon Inflation Pressures?

04/20/2023

Lloyd W. Klein , MD;

James C. Blankenship , MD;

Neal S. Kleiman , MD;

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

Mitchell W. Krucoff , MD;

Ken Rosenfeld , MD;

Samuel M. Butman , MD;

Morton J. Kern , MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA;

David A. Cox , MD;

Jeffrey W. Moses , MD;

Prashant Kaul , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Barry F. Uretsky , MD;

Matthew J. Price , MD;

Mauricio G. Cohen , MD, FACC;

Chet Rihal ;

Gurpreet S. Sandhu , MD, PhD;

Mr. Phillip Mumford asked, “We are changing our patient documentation to Epic at my facilities. Do you know if it’s required to still document balloon inflation pressures (ATM) and time (seconds) when charting the procedure?"

Mr. Phillip Mumford asked, “We...

04/20/2023

Cath Lab Digest

Case Report

First Experience with Intra-Renal Fenoldopam in a Patient with Heart Failure

08/01/2008

Mauricio G. Cohen , MD, FACC;

Patients with chronic kidney disease have a high prevalence of heart failure. According to the United States Renal Data System, nearly 40% of incident dialysis patients had a clinical diagnosis of heart failure.1 Furthermore, deterioration in...

Patients with chronic kidney...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Clinical Editor's Corner

TAVR: Who Should Prep the Device? The Role of Industry Representatives’ Participation in the Cath Lab

01/03/2022

Christopher J. White , DO, MD;

Morton J. Kern , MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA;

Michael Ragosta , MD;

David J. Cohen , MD, MPH, MSc;

Ramon Quesada , MD, FACP, FACC, FSCAI;

Susheel K. Kodali , MD;

Stephen R. Ramee , MD;

Samuel M. Butman , MD;

Amir Kaki , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Duane S. Pinto , MD, MPH;

William F. Fearon , MD;

Mauricio G. Cohen , MD, FACC;

Robert J. Applegate , MD;

Aaron V. Kaplan ;

David G. Rizik , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Jeffrey Marshall ;

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

After years of having the industry clinical support staff prep the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) valves in the lab (without a single adverse event because of faulty prep, to my knowledge) some administrators have now begun to...

After years of having the...

01/03/2022

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