From the Experts

Cath Lab Digest talks with Anthony Zelenka, FACHE, Chief Administrative Officer, and Lynnette Dalton, BSN, MHA, MBA, Director of Cardiovascular and Cardiopulmonary Services, West Virginia University Hospitals-East, Martinsburg, West Virginia.

Gerard Lagasse, RCIS, Senior Staff Member, Borgess Medical Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Michael S. Lee, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Assistant Professor, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Richard J. Merschen, MS, RT(R)(CV), Pennsylvania Hospital, Margaret Coburn, RT(R), Jefferson College of Health Professions, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Cath Lab Digest talks with Mike Rodman, Cath Lab Supervisor, Appleton Medical Center, Appleton, Wisconsin and Theda Clark Medical Center, Neenah, Wisconsin, about his cath labs’ use of lean management techniques. As a result of implementing “lean” thinking, Appleton Medical Center and Theda Clark Medical Center cath labs have been able to reduce their in-house STEMI door-to-balloon times from 120 minutes in 2006 to a current time of 60 minutes.

Cath Lab Digest talks to Matthew J. Price, MD, Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California. Dr. Price is the Principal Investigator for the GRAVITAS trial, investigating the use of the VerifyNow® P2Y12 Assay (Accumetrics, San Diego, CA).