Cath Lab Digest Editor's Update
July 2013, Vol. 21, No. 7
Case Report
Early Drug-Eluting Stent Restenosis Due to Aggressive Neoatherosclerotic Degeneration, an Optical Coherence Tomography Finding
Johan Bennett1, MD, Giovanni Jacopo Ughi2, M Eng, Bert Ferdinande1, MD, Christophe Dubois1,2, MD PhD, Tom Adriaenssens1, MD; 1Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium; 2Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium
Cath Lab Spotlight
Cayuga Heart Institute Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Ithaca, New York
Transradial Management
A Review of the Starboard Radial Arm Board
Jason Money, RN, RCIS, Specialty Nurse PCI, Tauranga Hospital, Bay of Plenty DHB, New Zealand
Case Report
Acute Myocardial Infarction in a Young Patient With Severe Hyper-Homocysteinemia Secondary to Pernicious Anemia
Jason Litskyaa, DO, MS, Stephanie M. Mellerbb, BA, Chirdeep Patelcc, MD, aYale University School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine; bYale University School of Medicine; cTemple University Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine
Cath Lab Management
A Suggested Approach for Improving Flow in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Jennifer Papin RN BSN, Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Mercy Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
In the Lab
A Focus on Women: Radiation and Safety with a Robotic Assisted Cath Lab
Case Files by Dr. George
Endovascular Pseudoaneurysm Repair Using Transarterial Thrombin Injection and Covered Stent
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
Basic Echocardiography: A Primer of the Common Echo Images for the Cath Lab
• The Transradialists
Complication of Transradial Catheterization Series: Radial Artery Dissection
Matthew Cholankeril, MD, Seton Hall University School of Graduate Medical Education, South Orange, New Jersey, Kintur Sanghvi, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Director, Transradial Program, Clinical Associate Professor, Deborah Heart and Lung Institute, Browns Mills, New Jersey
• Your Path to Program Success (by Corazon, Inc.)
• Ask the Transradial Expert: Orlando Marrero, RCIS, MBA
• 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 JULY 2013 ISSUE
Reservations: June 6, 2013
Materials due: June 13, 2013
Mail date: July 11, 2013
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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
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