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Your Path to Success: Expert Advice
Engaging Your Docs: Strategies for Initial and Ongoing Retention of Key Physicians
04/03/2018

Stacey Lang, Senior Vice President, Corazon, Inc.

 
Stacey Lang, Senior Vice President, C...
The best way to ensure a fully engaged medical staff is by securing only those physicians that will fit the organization from a cultural perspective, as well as a clinical one.
The best way to ensure a fully engaged medical staff is by securing only those physicians that will fit the organization from a cultural perspective, as well as a clinical one.
The best way to ensure a fully...
04/03/2018
Cath Lab Digest
News
News: Clinical Trial Finds Philips` Instant Wave-Free Ratio (iFR) More Cost-Effective Than Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) in Guidance of PCI for Heart Disease
04/03/2018
Health economic data from the DEFINE-FLAIR trial demonstrates an iFR-guided strategy reduces costs and improves patient comfort compared to an FFR-guided strategy, while delivering consistent cost savings and patient outcome.
Health economic data from the DEFINE-FLAIR trial demonstrates an iFR-guided strategy reduces costs and improves patient comfort compared to an FFR-guided strategy, while delivering consistent cost savings and patient outcome.
Health economic data from the...
04/03/2018
Cath Lab Digest
Your Path to Success: Expert Advice
Bundles are Here. Where are the Opportunities?
03/01/2018
In this month’s article, we have asked Anne Beekman, MedAxiom Consulting, and Keely Macmillan, Archway Health, to discuss what the new voluntary bundles offer as an opportunity for cath lab programs considering percutaneous coronary...
In this month’s article, we have asked Anne Beekman, MedAxiom Consulting, and Keely Macmillan, Archway Health, to discuss what the new voluntary bundles offer as an opportunity for cath lab programs considering percutaneous coronary...
In this month’s article, we have...
03/01/2018
Cath Lab Digest
Case Report
Interventional Techniques Utilizing an Interdisciplinary Approach for Treatment of PVD
03/01/2018

Nina Pistalo, CCL RN, P. Ramon Llobet, MD, FACC, St. Catherine Hospital, East Chicago, Indiana

Nina Pistalo, CCL RN, P. Ramon Llobet...
When possible, percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) should be considered as a first-line choice for diabetic patients with foot ulcers and peripheral arterial disease with obstruction, as opposed to amputation.
When possible, percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) should be considered as a first-line choice for diabetic patients with foot ulcers and peripheral arterial disease with obstruction, as opposed to amputation.
When possible, percutaneous...
03/01/2018
Cath Lab Digest
Your Path to Success: Expert Advice
An Invasive Disaster: A Cath Lab Without Leadership
02/28/2018

Jason Bisesi, Placement Specialist, Corazon, Inc.

Jason Bisesi, Placement Specialist, C...
When identifying an individual to lead a cath lab, Corazon advocates that a candidate’s experience should perhaps be given almost equal weight in comparison to education.
When identifying an individual to lead a cath lab, Corazon advocates that a candidate’s experience should perhaps be given almost equal weight in comparison to education.
When identifying an individual...
02/28/2018
Cath Lab Digest
Calcium Corner
ATTRACT Trial Signals Reduction in Post Thrombotic Syndrome Severity with Interventional Treatment of Acute Deep Venous Thrombosis
02/26/2018

Cath Lab Digest talks with venous specialist Timothy E. Yates, MD, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida, about his DVT treatment results and how they compare to ATTRACT.

 
Cath Lab Digest talks with venous spe...
We must educate and work with our colleagues to understand that DVT is a chronic disease state, and that treating it aggressively and early in our patient population is crucial.
We must educate and work with our colleagues to understand that DVT is a chronic disease state, and that treating it aggressively and early in our patient population is crucial.
We must educate and work with...
02/26/2018
Cath Lab Digest
Your Path to Success: Expert Advice
New Year — New Bundle! 2018 welcomes the new voluntary Bundled Payments for Care Improvement – Advanced Initiative (BPCI Advanced)
02/06/2018
Programs and providers may have different points of view on how and where to reduce unnecessary care and control the costs of healthcare; bundles have had success in reducing costs while meeting or improving quality benchmarks. Today, bundles...
Programs and providers may have different points of view on how and where to reduce unnecessary care and control the costs of healthcare; bundles have had success in reducing costs while meeting or improving quality benchmarks. Today, bundles...
Programs and providers may have...
02/06/2018
Cath Lab Digest
CLI Perspectives
My Favorite Wires in Tibial and Plantar Circulation: A Case-Based Presentation
02/06/2018

CLI Perspectives is headed by section editor J.A. Mustapha, MD, Advanced Cardiac and Vascular Amputation Prevention Centers, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

J.A. Mustapha, MD, Fadi Saab, MD, Advanced Cardiac and Vascular Amputation Prevention Centers, Grand Rapids, Michigan

CLI Perspectives is headed by section...
Treating complex lesions in tibial and plantar vessels require a unique combination of flexibility and strength. The operator needs to think about wires that can assist in crossing complex long lesions or chronic total occlusions (CTOs).
Treating complex lesions in tibial and plantar vessels require a unique combination of flexibility and strength. The operator needs to think about wires that can assist in crossing complex long lesions or chronic total occlusions (CTOs).
Treating complex lesions in...
02/06/2018
Cath Lab Digest
Case Series
Fem-Pop Graft Failure: Resurrection with the CrossLock LP
02/06/2018

Richard R. Heuser, FACC, FACP, FESC, FSCAI, Chief of Cardiology, St. Luke’s Medical Center; Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona School of Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona

Eddie Lipan, MD, Tempe St. Luke’s Wound Care Center

Phoenix, Arizona

Richard R. Heuser, FACC, FACP, FESC, ...
Even though many cases of critical limb ischemia can be treated with either an endovascular or surgical approach, this small series discusses three cases that underwent a surgical approach that subsequently failed. In each case, the surgeon...
Even though many cases of critical limb ischemia can be treated with either an endovascular or surgical approach, this small series discusses three cases that underwent a surgical approach that subsequently failed. In each case, the surgeon...
Even though many cases of...
02/06/2018
Cath Lab Digest
Your Path to Success: Expert Advice
What are High-Performing Cardiac Catheterization Labs Doing Right?
12/28/2017
This month, we have a great article from Anne Beekman, Senior Consultant with MedAxiom. Her overview of a recent survey conducted among cath labs across the country is very telling and should be viewed with an eye towards looking inward at...
This month, we have a great article from Anne Beekman, Senior Consultant with MedAxiom. Her overview of a recent survey conducted among cath labs across the country is very telling and should be viewed with an eye towards looking inward at...
This month, we have a great...
12/28/2017
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