Education

Editor's Opinion

To Teach and To Learn: Why the Right Publication Process Is Important

08/03/2021

Lia van Rijswijk, DNP, RN, CWCN, Clinical Editor

Sharing what we know comes naturally to health care professionals. We share what we know with patients, caregivers, colleagues, and students, not to mention our relatives, neighbors, friends, and acquaintances looking for a second (or first)...

Sharing what we know comes...

08/03/2021

Wound Management & Prevention

Clinical Editor's Corner

The Use and Abuse of Social Media in the Cath Lab

07/09/2019

Morton Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA
Clinical Editor; Chief of Medicine
Long Beach VA Medical Center
Long Beach, California;
Associate Chief Cardiology,
University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California
mortonkern2007@gmail.com
On Twitter: @drmortkern

Morton Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA Cl...

Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms have changed the way we see our world. Social media will be the way we communicate, educate, notify, and share our views across wide groups of users, particularly in the cardiovascular...

Twitter, Facebook, and other...

07/09/2019

Cath Lab Digest

New Accredited Online Professional Certificate Program in Electrophysiology

07/08/2019

Letitia P. Esbenshade-Smith, MS Ed., RCES, RCIS, Coordinator; Cardiac Electrophysiology Program, Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Letitia P. Esbenshade-Smith, MS Ed., ...

Pennsylvania College’s Professional Certificate Program in Cardiac Electrophysiology is the first online program to be granted initial accreditation. On March 15, 2019, the Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences was awarded initial...

Pennsylvania College’s...

07/08/2019

Cath Lab Digest

CLI Perspectives

Reflections on the 8th Annual AMPutation Prevention Symposium (AMP)

10/07/2018

J.A. Mustapha, MD, Founder and Director, AMPutation Prevention Symposium, Founding Board Member, CLI Global Society; Advanced Cardiac and Vascular Amputation Prevention Centers, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

J.A. Mustapha, MD, Founder and Direct...

It was exciting to see complex CLI cases performed by some of the best CLI operators in the world, who were able to show us extreme, unique approaches to treat complex disease from the groin to the toes.

It was exciting to see complex...

10/07/2018

Cath Lab Digest

Education & Social Media

Cath Lab Digest talks with WikiDoc creator C. Michael Gibson, MS, MD, about WikiDoc, Tweetbook, and his work as CEO of the Baim Institute for Clinical Research.

10/07/2018

Information wants to be free. Let information flow freely from patients to doctors and from doctors to patients, and when you have free-flowing information, healthcare is enriched.

Information wants to be free....

10/07/2018

Cath Lab Digest

Original Research

Microsurgery Competency During Plastic Surgery Residency: An Objective Skills Assessment of an Integrated Residency Training Program

06/02/2018

Matthew A. Applebaum

Erin L. Doren

Ali M. Ghanem

Simon R. Myers

Michael Harrington

David J. Smith

These data suggest that the objective assessment of hand motion is a valid tool for the evaluation of microsurgical skill.

These data suggest that the...

06/02/2018

ePlasty

Clinical Editor's Corner

What Does It Mean to Be a Mentor in the Cath Lab?

04/05/2018

Morton J. Kern, MD

In everyone’s career life, including the nursing and technical staff in the cath lab, mentors take on a multitude of roles during the training periods and early work life, and continue to have an impact well into the future years of the daily...

In everyone’s career life,...

04/05/2018

Cath Lab Digest

Ask the Expert

Enjoying and Teaching the Ins and Outs of Transradial Access

01/07/2016

Cath Lab Digest talks with Sandeep Nathan, MD, MSc, FACC, FSCAI, ThinkRadial Course Director and Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program and Co-Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at the University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.

Cath Lab Digest talks with Sandeep Na...

Irrespective of the type of patients you are seeing or the acuity of the patients you are generally seeing, radial has an impact. It certainly has had an impact at the University of Chicago.

Irrespective of the type of...

01/07/2016

Cath Lab Digest

Becoming a Radialist

11/03/2015

Anthony J. Minisi, MD, McGuire VA Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia

Anthony J. Minisi, MD, McGuire VA Med...

I readily acknowledge that my initial reaction to innovation is skepticism. As a result, my response to early reports of performing catheterization through the right radial artery was dismissive.

I readily acknowledge that my...

11/03/2015

Cath Lab Digest

Clinical and Industry News

Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center School of Invasive Cardiovascular Technology Receives National Accreditation

09/07/2015

First in New England to establish growing program

First in New England to establish gro...

The Hoffman Heart and Vascular Institute of Connecticut School of Invasive Cardiovascular Technology at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut, recently received programmatic accreditation from the national...

The Hoffman Heart and Vascular...

09/07/2015

Cath Lab Digest