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Cath Lab Digest - ISSN: 1073-2667 - Volume 14 - Issue 12 - December 2006 | |
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| Patricia Bailey, RN, BSN, Cardiac Cath/EP Lab Manager, Huntsville, Alabama
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What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members?
Our cath lab consists of 5 cardiology labs and 1 dedicated EP lab. One cardiology lab is also equipped for peripheral/cerebral imaging and interventions. We have a total of 41 FTEs with 12 RTs, 12 RNs and 1 scrub tech in the cath lab. There are several staff members who have worked in the cath lab for more than 20 years. A separate unit nearby handles outpatient admissions and discharges, as well as doing sheath pulls.
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| Ramon Quesada, MD, Medical Director of Interventional Cardiology at Baptist Cardiac and Vascular Institute, Miami, Florida and ISET Course Director |
These are exciting times for interventionalists interested in exploring new territory. Once solely a surgical domain, structural heart disease repair is the new frontier for endovascular therapy.
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Transradial Access: Learning with a New Virtual Reality Tool
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| Cath Lab Digest talks with J. Tift Mann III, MD, FACC, Wake Heart and Vascular Associates, Raleigh, North Carolina, about his experience with transradial access and a new simulator to enhance the skills of novel transradial operators. |
Transradial access is growing in popularity. What are the latest developments?
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Orientation – Cardiac Catheterization
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| Doug Langager, RCIS, Winchester Medical Center, Winchester, Virginia
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
– David Starr Jordan
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Held in Chicago, Illinois; November 12-15, 2006
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| Morton Kern, MD, Clinical Editor, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Associate Chief Cardiology, University of California Irvine,
Orange, California
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2006 has been an exceptional year for advances in interventional cardiology. These developments have demonstrated both the positive and negative aspects of important clinical advances. New devices and studies have focused our attention on unexpected events related to drug-eluting stents (DES), the approaching deployment of catheter-based percutaneous valvular implantation and repair, new devices for chronic total occlusions and forthcoming bioabsorbable stents.
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SICP Q&A |
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Question: Since the RT to RPA crossover program has worked in some places, will there be an RCIS to PA program?
Chuck Finfrock
Cath Lab/EP supervisor
Beverly Hospital
Beverly, MA
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Credentialing, Professional Standards and You
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| Kenneth A. Gorski, RN, RCIS, FSICP, Assistant Manager, Sones Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; Chairman, Professional Standards Committee, The Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals
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“There is but one worthy ambition for us all. Do better whatever we do.
No matter how capable, we must work, think, study, and do better.
This alone leads to Mastery, Leadership, and Independence.”
- Gutzon Borglum
Sculptor, Artist, Engineer
Mount Rushmore
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The 2005 Cath Lab Digest Salary Survey
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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.
Click here to learn more |
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