Volume 11 - Issue 5 - May, 2003
Email Discussion Group:Cited by JCAHO
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H&P incomplete
Yes. Our hospital (lab) was cited for incomplete admission History and Physical. This was not specific to the lab, but an overall hospital problem.
H&P too brief
We were cited because our physicians used the very brief review of systems contained in the consult note as their H&P. At a mock survey, we were cited for having flammable hairspray in lockers.
ASA classification & airway
The ASA classification and Airway had to be defined by the physician and the form signed prior to local being given. The JCAHO doctor and nurse were adamant ab
Cardiac Cath 2003
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Cath Lab Digest is pleased to report that approximately 160 cardiac cath professionals enjoyed Cardiac Cath 2003, a traveling educational one-day seminar which most recently took place in Chicago, Saturday, April 12th.
Attendees were riveted by engaging lecturers who spoke knowledgeably on topics like adjunctive pharmacology in PCI, coated stents, and emerging technologies. During breaks, they chatted with representatives at booths featuring Cordis, Centocor, Amersham Health, Boston Scientific, and Merit Medical.
Lunchtime conversation was devoted to at my lab exchanges. A
What Do You Think?
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From March 2003: Patient Follow Up
Our lab is going to start following patients after discharge to home. The plan is to call patients at home and ask them various questions about their post-hospital recovery period. We’d like to know what other labs do in regards to:
Follow up time-frame;
How they document these interviews;
What questions are asked during the interview;
Where is the data stored;
Who is responsible for accomplishing this (i.e. cath lab nurses/techs, clinic staff, same day admissions);
What is your staffing ratio
How is ti
Letter to the Editor
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Editor’s note: Reader Mike Martin wrote us regarding the article recommended in CLD’s March Email Discussion Group on drug-eluting stents (DES), pages 60-64. The article reference is reprinted below.
Gunn J, Morton AC, Wales C, et al. Drug eluting stents: maximizing benefit and minimizing cost. Heart 2003;89:127-131.
This is the only rational approach to DES! It’s one that we plan to follow. I will be watching the use of DES very closely and speaking to each physician who seems to be deploying them inappropriately.
Mike Martin
Cardiac Services Manager
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Harvard Symposium on the Clinical Efficacy and Hemostatic Mechanism of Action of Poly-N-Acetyl Glucosamine
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This symposium provided a forum for several prominent clinicians and scientists. They presented summaries of their laboratory and clinical data on the use and hemostatic mechanism of poly-N-acetyl glucosamine, the material that makes up the SyvekPatch in its entirety.
Dr. S.F. Khuri of Harvard Medical School presented the results of a blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of the SyvekPatch in improving hemostasis in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization. Also, data were presented on the details of the interaction of blood cells with poly-N-ac
May 2003 Clinical Events Calendar
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Cardiac Catheterization 2003
Regional meetings for cath lab professionals
Upcoming locations:
May 17 - Philadelphia, PA
May 30 - Houston, TX
September 6 - Cincinnati, OH
Website: www.cathlabdigest.com
Contact: 800-766-6014
May 7-10
SCA&I 26th Annual Scientific Sessions
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Description: The annual meeting for the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions
Website: www.scai.org
May 14 - 17
North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE)
24th Annual Scientific Sessions
Location: New Washing
Site Verification Enthusiasts (are you out there?) Score!
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Readers discussed site verification, and at the time the April issue went to press, we became aware of a JCAHO ruling which seemed to indicate that site verification is now a mandatory practice in the cath lab. (Editor's Note, May 20: This no longer appears to be the case. Please visit the JCAHO website for the latest ruling on site verification). Most cath lab veterans shook their heads in disbelief that such a practice would ever be necessary. A few shared experiences of recent discussions with JCAHO surveyors, where recommendations were made despite well-honed arguments. There was a
Clinical and Industry News
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FDA Approves Cordis’ CYPHER Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent
Cordis Corporation, a Johnson & Johnson company, has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its CYPHER Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent, making it the first U.S.-approved combination drug device intended to help reduce restenosis of a treated coronary artery.
Cordis is very pleased to bring this remarkable and innovative treatment to patients, hospitals and interventional cardiologists, said Johnson & Johnson Company Group Chairman Robert Croce, who has worldwide management respons
Baptist DeKalb
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What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members?
Our cath lab facility includes one cardiac catheterization suite with a staff of six, including:
Four registered nurses,
One registered radiology technologist,
One registered respiratory therapist.
All employees have worked for the Baptist System for an average of 13 years.
What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members?
Our cath lab facility includes one cardiac catheterization suite with a staff of six, including:
Four registered nurses,
Ergonomics in the Cath Lab(or, how to save staff backs, necks, wrists...)
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The application of the relatively new field of ergonomics has been a trial-and-error procedure for the last twenty years. Trying to actually define ergonomics is an interesting experiment, as it’s not located in any dictionary published before 1985.
If you break down ergonomics into its root forms, you find:
ERGO = Latin for therefore
NOMY = Latin for a system of laws or body of knowledge about a field.
(Clear as mud to me definitely sounds like something the government would come up with.)
So what is ergonomics, and what does it have to do with the world of the cardi
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