Volume 19 - Issue 3 - March, 2011
Column
What Do You Think?
03/03/2011
Reader-Submitted Questions Answered by Readers
Reader-Submitted Questions Answered b...
03/03/2011
Cath Lab Digest
Clinical Editor's Corner
03/03/2011
Morton Kern, MD
Clinical Editor, Professor of Medicine, Associate Chief Cardiology
University of California Irvine, Orange, California
mortonkern2007@gmail.com
Morton Kern, MD
Clinical Editor, Prof...
Several timely articles in leading newspapers across the country are spotlighting the recent surge in radial artery cardiac catheterization. For example, Suzanne Hoholik wrote the article “Some surgeons inserting stents through the wrist” for...
Several timely articles in leading newspapers across the country are spotlighting the recent surge in radial artery cardiac catheterization. For example, Suzanne Hoholik wrote the article “Some surgeons inserting stents through the wrist” for...
Several timely articles in...
03/03/2011
Cath Lab Digest
03/03/2011
Dear Dr. Kern,
I just came across a great article about unintentional hypothermia as it relates to the OR environment. It seems to me this article should apply to the cath lab environment as well. The article, “Unintentional hypothermia:...
Dear Dr. Kern,
I just came across a great article about unintentional hypothermia as it relates to the OR environment. It seems to me this article should apply to the cath lab environment as well. The article, “Unintentional hypothermia:...
Dear Dr. Kern,
I just came...
03/03/2011
Cath Lab Digest
In the Lab
03/02/2011
Cath Lab Digest talks with Charles E. Chambers, MD, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, MS Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania; Quality Improvement Committee Chair, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
Cath Lab Digest talks with Charles E....
Tell us about the creation of the new guidelines.
It was actually in 2006, after completing the 1992 infection control guidelines update, that the SCAI Lab Standards Committee (now the Quality Improvement Committee), looked at renewing the...
Tell us about the creation of the new guidelines.
It was actually in 2006, after completing the 1992 infection control guidelines update, that the SCAI Lab Standards Committee (now the Quality Improvement Committee), looked at renewing the...
Tell us about the creation of...
03/02/2011
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
Clinical Update
03/03/2011
Michael S. Lee, MD, FACC, FSCAI,
University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Michael S. Lee, MD, FACC, FSCAI,
Uni...
Orthotopic heart transplantation is an effective therapy for patients with end-stage congestive heart failure.1 Complications and comorbidities associated with orthotopic heart transplant and the medications needed to prevent rejection...
Orthotopic heart transplantation is an effective therapy for patients with end-stage congestive heart failure.1 Complications and comorbidities associated with orthotopic heart transplant and the medications needed to prevent rejection...
Orthotopic heart transplantation...
03/03/2011
Cath Lab Digest
Case Report
03/02/2011
Santhosh Reddy Mannem, MD+†,
Rajesh Lall, MD† and Stephen Peck, MD†+Division of Internal Medicine, Columbia University at Harlem Hospital Center, New York;
†Division of Cardiology, Borgess Medical Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Santhosh Reddy Mannem, MD+†,
Rajesh ...
Abstract
Implantable port-catheter systems are being used increasingly for long-term intravenous therapy. Intracardiac catheter embolization is a serious complication and most reported cases have been right-sided embolizations. Left-sided...
Abstract
Implantable port-catheter systems are being used increasingly for long-term intravenous therapy. Intracardiac catheter embolization is a serious complication and most reported cases have been right-sided embolizations. Left-sided...
Abstract
Implantable...
03/02/2011
Cath Lab Digest
Department
Cath Lab Spotlight
03/02/2011
Beth Ferguson, RT(R), Cardiovascular Specialist, Greensboro, North Carolina
Beth Ferguson, RT(R), Cardiovascular ...
Can you tell us about your cath lab?
The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital Cardiac Cath Lab has 6 cardiovascular labs, 1 electrophysiology lab and 2 peripheral vascular labs. We have 50 staff members, including management, made up of a mix...
Can you tell us about your cath lab?
The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital Cardiac Cath Lab has 6 cardiovascular labs, 1 electrophysiology lab and 2 peripheral vascular labs. We have 50 staff members, including management, made up of a mix...
Can you tell us about your cath...
03/02/2011
Cath Lab Digest
Cath Lab Spotlight
03/02/2011
Beth Ferguson, RT(R), Cardiovascular Specialist, Greensboro, North Carolina
Beth Ferguson, RT(R), Cardiovascular ...
Can you tell us about your cath lab?
The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital Cardiac Cath Lab has 6 cardiovascular labs, 1 electrophysiology lab and 2 peripheral vascular labs. We have 50 staff members, including management, made up of a mix...
Can you tell us about your cath lab?
The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital Cardiac Cath Lab has 6 cardiovascular labs, 1 electrophysiology lab and 2 peripheral vascular labs. We have 50 staff members, including management, made up of a mix...
Can you tell us about your cath...
03/02/2011
Cath Lab Digest
