Volume 13 - Issue 8 - August, 2005
Feature
06/19/2008
Cath lab professionals help one another with day-to-day dilemmas
Cath lab professionals help one anoth...
Ok to hire surgical/scrub techs?
I am opening a new cath lab in Wisconsin and am wondering if there are any legal guidelines we need to follow in hiring Surgical/Scrub techs (STs) in the cath lab. Where I came from, we had a couple STs that...
Ok to hire surgical/scrub techs?
I am opening a new cath lab in Wisconsin and am wondering if there are any legal guidelines we need to follow in hiring Surgical/Scrub techs (STs) in the cath lab. Where I came from, we had a couple STs that...
Ok to hire surgical/scrub...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Jason Wilson, RCIS
Upon review of a patient’s chart, I read that the patient had metabolic syndrome. What is this?
Metabolic syndrome is a grouping of metabolic factors that predispose people to coronary artery disease and stroke. These factors include central...
Upon review of a patient’s chart, I read that the patient had metabolic syndrome. What is this?
Metabolic syndrome is a grouping of metabolic factors that predispose people to coronary artery disease and stroke. These factors include central...
Upon review of a patient’s...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Roxana Mehran, MD; Fayaz Shawl, MD; Ted A. Bass, MD; Gregory Braden, MD; Paul A. Overlie, MD, FACC, FACP; Norberto Schechtmann, MD; Patrick L. Whitlow, MD; William W. O'Neill, MD; Raoul Bonan, MD
Greg Braden: Let’s discuss the issue of MI patients who live in communities where there is quick access to catheterization laboratories, versus those in remote communities who don’t have easy access to cath labs. We live in a modestly rural...
Greg Braden: Let’s discuss the issue of MI patients who live in communities where there is quick access to catheterization laboratories, versus those in remote communities who don’t have easy access to cath labs. We live in a modestly rural...
Greg Braden: Let’s discuss the...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Cath lab professionals help one another with day-to-day dilemmas
Cath lab professionals help one anoth...
Ok to hire surgical/scrub techs?
I am opening a new cath lab in Wisconsin and am wondering if there are any legal guidelines we need to follow in hiring Surgical/Scrub techs (STs) in the cath lab. Where I came from, we had a couple STs that...
Ok to hire surgical/scrub techs?
I am opening a new cath lab in Wisconsin and am wondering if there are any legal guidelines we need to follow in hiring Surgical/Scrub techs (STs) in the cath lab. Where I came from, we had a couple STs that...
Ok to hire surgical/scrub...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
Jason Wilson, RCIS
Upon review of a patient’s chart, I read that the patient had metabolic syndrome. What is this?
Metabolic syndrome is a grouping of metabolic factors that predispose people to coronary artery disease and stroke. These factors include central...
Upon review of a patient’s chart, I read that the patient had metabolic syndrome. What is this?
Metabolic syndrome is a grouping of metabolic factors that predispose people to coronary artery disease and stroke. These factors include central...
Upon review of a patient’s...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Cardiology Services Director, Northwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center, Clarksdale, Mississippi
Cardiology Services Director, Northwe...
I am happily married to my wife Judy and have three children. One is in the Navy, one is a heavy equipment operator, and one is a patient care attendant for the mentally challenged. I am a 30-year veteran of healthcare with twenty-seven years...
I am happily married to my wife Judy and have three children. One is in the Navy, one is a heavy equipment operator, and one is a patient care attendant for the mentally challenged. I am a 30-year veteran of healthcare with twenty-seven years...
I am happily married to my wife...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Feature
06/19/2008
Elad I. Levy, MD
The Conventional Approach
Among the multiple therapeutic modalities and surgical techniques available to treat spinal conditions such as degenerative disc disease, scoliosis, spondylolisthesis, or spinal fracture, one of the more...
The Conventional Approach
Among the multiple therapeutic modalities and surgical techniques available to treat spinal conditions such as degenerative disc disease, scoliosis, spondylolisthesis, or spinal fracture, one of the more...
The Conventional Approach
Among...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
Annie Ruppert, RN, BSN
When bivalirudin first came on the market, one institution (which wishes to remain unnamed here) did a retrospective analysis of all 475 patients who had a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedure between the months of November 2002...
When bivalirudin first came on the market, one institution (which wishes to remain unnamed here) did a retrospective analysis of all 475 patients who had a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedure between the months of November 2002...
When bivalirudin first came on...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
06/19/2008
John Lasala, MD, PhD, FACC, FACP
Background
ARRIVE I (Taxus Peri-Approval Registry, A U.S. Multi-Center Safety Surveillance Program) has enrolled nearly 2,600 consecutive patients at 50 sites in the United States and features Boston Scientific Corporation’s Taxus® Express2...
Background
ARRIVE I (Taxus Peri-Approval Registry, A U.S. Multi-Center Safety Surveillance Program) has enrolled nearly 2,600 consecutive patients at 50 sites in the United States and features Boston Scientific Corporation’s Taxus® Express2...
Background
ARRIVE I (Taxus...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
Column
Technology Pulse
06/19/2008
Warren Grand, RN
Our cath lab is always in search of ways to improve on an old theme. Being new to the cath lab at Passaic Beth Israel Medical Center, I was very impressed by the dedication and outstanding patient care provided by our RTs, CVTs, RNs and...
Our cath lab is always in search of ways to improve on an old theme. Being new to the cath lab at Passaic Beth Israel Medical Center, I was very impressed by the dedication and outstanding patient care provided by our RTs, CVTs, RNs and...
Our cath lab is always in search...
06/19/2008
Cath Lab Digest
