Contrast Management

Quality Improvement

Incorporating the DyeVert System Into Focused Protocols: A Hard Stop for Contrast-Induced Acute Kidney Injury

09/05/2019

Cath Lab Digest talks with Barry Bertolet, MD and Carla Durham, RN, North Mississippi Medical Center Cath Lab Manager, North Mississippi Medical Center, Tupelo, Mississippi.

Cath Lab Digest talks with Barry Bert...

At North Mississippi Medical Center, we use 1.5x GFR to determine the maximum contrast threshold.

At North Mississippi Medical...

09/05/2019

Cath Lab Digest

Clinical Editor's Corner

How Low Can We Go? Use of Ultra-Low Contrast Volume in Patients Undergoing PCI

07/31/2019

Morton J. Kern, MD

We should try to reduce contrast media in all patients and especially in those patients with impaired renal function, diabetes, or congestive heart failure.

We should try to reduce contrast...

07/31/2019

Cath Lab Digest

Clinical Update

AKI Awareness: Variation in Contrast Usage Across ACC-NCDR CathPCI Operators

09/06/2017

Cath Lab Digest talks with Amit P. Amin, MD, MSc, Cardiovascular Division, Washington University School of Medicine; Barnes-Jewish Hospital; Center for Value and Innovation, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri.

Cath Lab Digest talks with Amit P. Am...

The more contrast you use, the greater the risk of AKI. We have actually applied our findings at Barnes Jewish Hospital (BJH), where we predict in advance how much contrast a patient can safely tolerate

The more contrast you use, the...

09/06/2017

Cath Lab Digest

Clinical Review

Contrast-Induced Nephropathy: What Do We Know? A Literature Analysis

06/07/2017

Michael O’Bleness, MBA, MSN, RN, Staff Nurse Interventional Radiology/Cardiology, Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center, Vallejo, California

Michael O’Bleness, MBA, MSN, RN, Staf...

Contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN)/acute kidney injury (AKI) is the third leading cause of hospital-acquired acute renal failure. As diagnostic imaging increases in interventional procedures such as coronary and peripheral angiography, along...

Contrast-induced nephropathy...

06/07/2017

Cath Lab Digest

Case Report

Septal Sobriety: Aborted Alcohol Septal Ablation for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Secondary to Diffuse Coronary-Cameral Fistulae

03/03/2016

Loren Garrison Morgan, MD, Arun Kumar Nagabandi, MBBS, Paul Poommipanit, MD, FACC, FSCAI, The Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Augusta, Georgia

Loren Garrison Morgan, MD, Arun Kumar...

The extravasation of echocontrast into this patient’s ventricles after selective engagement of the septal perforators was indicative of severe, diffuse coronary-cameral fistulae.

The extravasation of...

03/03/2016

Cath Lab Digest