Cath Lab Digest Editor's Update

March 2010, Vol. 18, No. 3

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CATH LAB SPOTLIGHT

Mount Sinai Medical Center

New York City, New York

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ACVP MANAGEMENT CORNER

A Project to Improve Efficiency in the Cardiac
Catheterization Laboratory:
An Operational Excellence Initiative

Barbara Boston, Hahnemann University Hospital,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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IMAGING

Impact of Multislice Computed Tomography
to Estimate Difficulty in Wire Crossing in
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for
Chronic Total Occlusion

Mariko Ehara, MD, Mitsuyasu Terashima, MD, Masato Kawai,
RT, et al. Reprinted with permission from the Journal of Invasive
Cardiology November 2009, Vol. 21, No.11

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CAROTID STENTING

The Mo.Ma® Ultra Proximal Cerebral
Protection Device: An Effective New Tool

An interview with L. Nelson Hopkins, MD, FACS, Chairman of
Neurosurgery, Professor of Radiology, Director, Toshiba Stroke
Research Center, University at Buffalo Neurosurgery
State University of New York, Buffalo, New York and Gary M. Ansel,
MD, FACC, FAHA, Director, Peripheral Vascular Intervention,
Riverside Methodist Hospital, MidOhio Cardiology Consultants,
Midwest Cardiology Research Foundation, Columbus, Ohio
Reprinted with permission from Vascular Disease Management
February 2010 (www.vascularmanagement.com)

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CASE REPORT

ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patient
with Severely Depressed Ejection Fraction
Supported by Impella® 2.5

Amid Khan, MD, Eric Gnall, DO, Timothy Shapiro, MD
Lankenau Hospital, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania

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ACCESS

Reduce Bleeding Complications with the
Transradial Approach

Cath Lab Digest talks with Sunil Rao, MD, Assistant Professor of
Medicine at Duke University Medical Center; Director, Cardiac
Cath Lab, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

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CATH LAB SYSTEMS

New IT Role Needed for the Cath Lab

Jim Wade, RN, MBA, FSICP, Rockford, Illinois

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