The hybrid cath lab is a new concept for delivering advanced patient care. In a hybrid application, the cath lab doubles as an operating room so that a patient undergoing a cardiac cath procedure can immediately have surgery if required. This cutting-edge setting allows physicians to address patient needs quickly, eliminating the need to schedule additional surgical procedures, and may become increasingly commonplace in contemporary healthcare facilities. However, combining the requirements of surgery rooms and cardiac cath rooms in an existing cath room does pose design and construction chall

Mistake #1: Not planning for the proper amount of time.

How many meetings have you attended where the presenter says, I've got a lot of slides. We're going to fly through this information. Stay with me, since we only have a short period of time? For the next 60 minutes, you see a myriad of slides, with the speaker flipping through them almost as if you're watching a moving picture. With all due respect to individuals who have spent hours, days, months and years in research, you can't take a sip of water from a fire hydrant. Presenters must format their presentations to fit the exact

In the Patient’s Shoes

I remember how upsetting it was for me when I got triaged and still had to wait for several more hours to be seen by a doctor. When I was a patient (and everybody knows nurses and doctors make the worst patients), I wanted help the minute I was sick enough to come to the emergency department. I wanted help then, not later. I would sometimes become tearful, ugly, mad and say things that weren’t nice, just like some of my previous patients. After this experience, I now try hard to remember how I felt or what I might have done so I can better help patients du

Five-year Fractional Flow Reserve Data Confirms Benefit of Stenting Deferral

Radi PressureWire® System Provides Definitive Information
About Which Lesions To Stent And Those Which May Be Deferred

Patients treated based on fractional flow reserve (FFR) results achieve long term outcomes equal, or superior to, patients who undergo stenting solely based on angiographic evidence, according to the results of a study published in the May 29 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The authors report the five-year follow-up results of the DEFER study, which in