Cath Lab Digest

June 2013, Vol. 21, No. 6

Bonus distribution: C3: Complex Cardiovascular Catheter Therapeutics
June 17-21, 2013, Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel, Orlando, Florida

Cath Lab Management
Making Peer Review Painless
Interventional Cardiology Catheterization Laboratory Quality Self Improvement Audits and the American Medical Foundation for Peer Review and Education
Andrew Eisenhauer, MD, Donald Cutlip, MD and Evelyn Baram-Clothier, PhG, JD

Cath Lab Spotlight
St. Mary’s Hospital
Madison, Wisconsin

Pioneers
Doing It All and Always Learning: Dr. Sievert’s Unique Cath Lab in Germany
Cath Lab Digest talks with Horst Sievert, MD, FESC, FACC, FSCA Professor of Medicine, Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Vascular Medicine of the CardioVascular Center Frankfurt, Sankt Katharinen; Head of Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, Sankt Katharinen Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; and Sameer Gafoor, MD

Case Reports: Peripheral Vascular
Percutaneous Repair of an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm with Left Renal Artery Involvement Using the Snorkel Graft Technique: A Case Study
Richard J. Merschen, Ed.S. RT(R)(CV), RCIS, Clinical Instructor, Jefferson School of Health Professions, Senior Staff Technologist, Pennsylvania Hospital;
Scott Midwall, MD, Pennsylvania Hospital,
Daniel McCormick, DO, FACC, Director of Cardiovascular and Interventional Therapy, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Access & Closure
Opening With Closure in Mind: The Arstasis Axera

Case Report
Pulmonary Embolism Treated With Ultrasonic Thrombolysis in the Cath Lab: First Two Patients at Banner Desert Medical Center
Kayla Ford, RN, MSN-L, Senior RN Manager, Cardiac Cath Lab, Banner Desert Medical Center, Mesa, Arizona

Case Report: Tips & Tricks
The Anchor Balloon Technique for Difficult Chronic Total Occlusions
Rajiv Goswami, DO, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Ben Taub Hospital, Houston, Texas

Case Files by Dr. George
Jon C. George, MD, Division of Interventional Cardiology and Endovascular Medicine, Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, New Jersey

Case Report
Multivessel Transradial Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in a Patient with a Single Coronary Artery
Stefano Rigattieri, MD, Cristian Di Russo, MD, Alessandro Sciahbasi, MD and Paolo Loschiavo, MD, Interventional Cardiology Unit, Sandro Pertini Hospital, Rome, Italy

In Every Issue
• Clinical Editor’s Corner: Morton Kern, MD
• Your Path to Program Success (sponsored by Corazon, Inc.)
• Education Center: CEUs offered by Cath Lab Digest & the North American Center for CMEs (NACCME)-Princeton CME
• Industry News & Products
• Clinical Meetings Calendar
• Personnel Announcements

*Note: Articles subject to change at the discretion of the editor.

IMPORTANT DATES FOR THE JUNE 2013 ISSUE

Reservations: May 9, 2013
Materials due: May 16, 2013
Mail date: June 11, 2013

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January 2013, Vol. 21, No. 1

To be distributed at ISET (International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy), January 19-23, Miami, FL

Meeting Update
VeithSymposium: Hot Topics in the Peripheral Vasculature
1) Engelhardt: Single-Center Experience Using Ekos for Massive and Submassive PE and the SEATTLE II Trial;
2) Laird: 3-Year Results of the RESILIENT Trial with the Lifestent: Are the Results of SFA Stents Durable?;
3) Liistro: Drug-Eluting Balloons are Better for Below-Knee Lesions Than SESs: 1-Year Results;
4) Manzi: Extreme Approaches To CTOs via Retrograde Puncture of Pedal Loop and Digital Arteries;
5) Powell: Stem Cell Therapy Will Have an Increasing Role in the Treatment of CLI;
6) Zeller: Atherectomy and Drug-Eluting Balloons for Native Disease and In-Stent Restenosis in the SFA and Popliteal: Stents Can be Avoided Completely

Cath Lab Spotlight
Frederik Meijer Heart & Vascular Institute, Spectrum Health System
Ryan D. Madder, MD, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Cath Lab Management
A Journey Toward Better Patient Care: The Accreditation for Cardiovascular Excellence (ACE) Accreditation Process
Forbes Regional Hospital, Monroeville, Pennsylvania

Case Report: Anomalies
Hyperdominant Left Anterior Descending Artery Continuing as Posterior Descending
Artery: A Rare Coronary Artery Anomaly
Boochi Babu Mannuva, MD, Senior Resident; Rajasekhar Durgaprasad, MD, DM, FACC, Dean, Professor & Head; Vanajakshamma Velam, MD, DM, Professor Department of Cardiology, SVIMS, Tirpati, A.P., India.

The Transradialists
Kintur Sanghvi, MD, Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, New Jersey

Ask the Transradial Expert
Presented by Orlando Marrero, RCIS, MBA, Tampa, Florida.

Case Files by Dr. George
Jon C. George, MD, Division of Interventional Cardiology and Endovascular Medicine, Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, New Jersey

In Every Issue
• Clinical Editor’s Corner: Morton Kern, MD — When Do You Decide Not to Take a STEMI Patient to the Cath Lab? Addressing an Ethical Dilemma
• Your Path to Program Success (sponsored by Corazon, Inc.)
• Ask the Clinical Instructor by Todd Ginapp, EMT-P, RCIS, FSICP
• Education Center: CEUs offered by Cath Lab Digest & the North American Center for CMEs (NACCME)-Princeton CME
• Industry News & Products
• Clinical Meetings Calendar
• Personnel Announcements

*Note: Articles subject to change at the discretion of the editor.

IMPORTANT DATES FOR THE JANUARY 2013 ISSUE

Reservations: December 10, 2012
Materials due: December 17, 2012
Mail date: January 5, 2013

Contact

800-237-7285

Jeff Martin, ext. 238
Carson McGarrity, ext. 234
Jeff Benson, ext. 270

Please send ad materials to:

Attn: Elizabeth Vasil
HMP Communications, LLC
83 General Warren Blvd, Ste. 100,
Malvern, PA 19355
Telephone: (800) 237-7285 / (610) 560-0500

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