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Cath Lab Digest - ISSN: 1073-2667 - Volume 12 - Issue 10 - October 2004
Brenda McCulloch, RN, MSN, Cardiovascular Clinical Nurse Specialist, Carol Prinzo, RN, Cath Lab Director, and Margaret Mette RN, MN, Assistant Administrator
Sutter Medical Center, located in California's capital city Sacramento, is a 550-bed, two-campus, tertiary care facility that serves patients throughout the greater Sacramento-Sierra region.
Sent to Cath Lab Digest by alert reader and CLD board member Kenneth Gorski, RN, RCIS, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
A revision to the rules and regulations pertaining to Radiologic Technology Licensure in Arkansas

Time in the Cath Lab & Outside the Lab

Drug-Eluting Stent Solutions
Keith D. Dawkins, MD, FRCP, FACC
Reviewing the TAXUS VI Clinical Trial Results

Experience with the Chito-SealTM Topical Hemostasis Pad at Glendale Memorial Heart Center
Cath Lab Digest talks with John Johnson, RCIS and Michael Yeh, MD

Management of a Patient with Severe Coronary Artery Disease and Cardiogenic Shock after Prolonged Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Francis Q. Almeda, MD, R. Jeffrey Snell, MD

Minimize the Stress, Maximize the Comfort
Bernie Gehrki, AIA, and Mike Tangney, AIA
Cath lab design greatly impacts the quality of care for patients while also impacting staff efficiency.

Non-invasive Testing is Not Specific Enough: Why and How to Obtain Objective Signs of Ischemia in the Cath Lab
Nico H.J. Pijls, MD, PhD
Why do we need an invasive assessment of ischemia? In effect, this question can be further divided into two questions: 1. Do we need assessment of ischemia, and if we do; 2. How is functional information about ischemia obtained? Why should it be invasive? Question 1: Do we need assessment of ischemia? Let's start with two provocative examples.

Cardiovascular Laboratory Performance Improvement: A 27-Month Angioplasty Program Evaluation
Submitted by Jill Price, RN
The following presentation was created by the Cardiovascular Laboratory Team: Dr. Kendall Griffith, Dr. Michael Potts, Dr. Dante Galiber, Dr. Roy Arcamo, Jill Price RN, Lorie Trotman RN, Zanna Gardner RN, Fernando Suarez RT

Email Discussion Group: IABP Removal by Registered Nurses?
Discussion group members responded to the questions below, and emails are included for any questions readers may have regarding a particular lab’s policies. If you’d like to join our group, please send an email to: cathlabdigest@hotmail.com
Held September 27–October 1, 2004, in Washington, D.C.

News from the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Meeting (TCT): Part II
Held September 27–October 1, 2004, in Washington, D.C.

Clinical & Industry News
Letter from the Editor:
The Meeting Season

 



The 2005 Cath Lab Digest Salary Survey
Cath Lab Digest conducted its fifth annual salary survey in an attempt to assess the market value of cardiac catheterization laboratory professionals across the country. The survey will also be available on our website, www.cathlabdigest.com, as a PDF file. Cath Lab Digest had 108 survey responses.

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