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Cath Lab Digest - ISSN: 1073-2667 - Volume 14 - Issue 9 - September 2006 | |
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| Tom Leighow RT(R)(CV), RCVT/RCIS*, ACLS,
Monroe, North Carolina
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What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members?
We have a diverse range of experience and education within our staff, made up of a total of 14 staff members, including our cath lab director, Steven Dence RT(R), RCIS. Our team’s experience level ranges from a 30-year veteran to our least experienced member, who has 4 years of cath lab experience, and with the rest of our staff falling within this range.
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Correction: Cath Lab Digest published an incorrect photo of St. Francis staff in the August issue article, “Becoming More Efficient While Tackling a Total Catheterization Lab Redesign” by Peggy Coltrin, Clinical Manager, Heart & Vascular Center, St. Francis Hospital, Federal Way, WA. We regret the error.
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Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement
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| Cath Lab Digest talks with William O'Neill, MD, Professor of Medicine and Dean of Clinical Affairs, University of Miami School of Medicine, Coral Gables, Florida |
Dr. O’Neill discusses his work with the Cribier-Edwards Percutaneous Aortic Heart Valve (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, CA), delivered on a balloon-expandable stainless steel stent.
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Commentary |
| Chuck Williams, BS, RPA, Atlanta, Georgia
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A commentary on "Lint and Particle Contamination During Diagnostic and Interventional Procedures in the Cardiac Catheterization Lab" by Dr. Wava Truscott.
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Contamination in the Cath Lab: Any Less Important Than in the OR? |
| David E. Allie, MD
Director of Cardiothoracic and Endovascular Surgery; Director of Noninvasive Vascular Labs,
Cardiovascular Institute of the South/Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana |
A commentary on "Lint and Particle Contamination During Diagnostic and Interventional Procedures in the Cardiac Catheterization Lab" by Dr. Wava Truscott.
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GP IIb/IIIa Cost Savings Initiative (Eptifibatide) |
| Dennis Holloway, MBA, CVT
Director of Diagnostic, Cardiovascular Services, Bay Medical Hospital, Panama City, Florida |
Expense reduction is a primary concern for any facility. With the ever-changing state of reimbursement conditions, it is not clear from one year to the next what will be reimbursed, how much and for how long. It is up to us as cath lab managers and staff to stay ahead of this constantly changing curve in order to be cost effective and provide the standard of care that all of our patients deserve.
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What Do You Think?
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Multiple new and ongoing questions from readers.
Your responses are welcome!
Answer or pose a question at cathlabdigest@aol.com.
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Ask the Clinical Instructor: A Q&A column for those new to the cath lab
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| Questions are answered by:
Jason Wilson, RCIS
Ellis Hospital Clinical Instructor
Schenectady, New York |
Still learning about the wide variety of patients that visit the cath lab? Could your question be one that others share as well? CLD can help.
Submit your question to:
Jason Wilson, RCIS, at hrtfixr7@yahoo.com
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Systemic Anaphylactoid Reactions to Iodinated Contrast Media During Cardiac Catheterization Procedures:
Guidelines for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
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| Jerome E. Goss, MD, Charles E. Chambers, MD, Frederick A. Heupler, MD, and Members of the Laboratory Performance Standards Committee of the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions.
From the New Mexico Heart Clinic, Albuquerque; Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey; Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
Members of the Laboratory Standards Committee: Frederick A. Heupler, Jr., MD, Chairman; Jerome E. Goss, MD, Vice Chairman; Arfan J. Al-Hani, MD; William T. Armstrong, MD; Stephen Balter, PhD; Airlie A. C. Cameron, MD; Charles E. Chambers, MD; Larry S. Dean, MD; Wayne E. Dear, MD; Manuel de la Llata, MD; John P. Dervan, MD; James C. Dillion, MD; Lowell I. Gerber, MD; Kenneth R. Jutzy, MD; Neal S. Kleiman, MD; Francis Y. K. Lau, MD; Jeffrey W. Moses, MD; William J. Phillips, MD; Sheldon S. Sbar, MD; William C. Sheldon, MD.
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This article is reprinted with permission from Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis 1995;34:99-104.
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New
Cardiovascular
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| Cath Lab Digest talks with Dr. David Allie, conference co-chair and Director of Cardiothoracic and Endovascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Institute of the South, Lafayette, Louisiana
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New Cardiovascular Horizons is being held
November 1-4, 2006, in New Orleans.
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| Morton Kern, MD |
Three weeks after successfully treating a patient with an acute anterior myocardial infarction (MI), I received a letter from the hospital administration, offering “congratulations on achieving a door-to-balloon (DTB) time of 58 minutes in the treatment of this patient.” The following week, I was chastised for being closer to 100 minutes for a “similar” ST-elevation MI (STEMI) patient.
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The SICP and New Cardiovascular Horizons
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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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On Demand Medical Education
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