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Cath Lab Digest - ISSN: 1073-2667 - Volume 15 - Issue 1 - January 2007 | |
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| Teri Schmidt, RN, Cath Lab Clinical Educator, Columbus, Ohio |
What is the size of your cath lab facility and number of staff members?
We currently have six procedure rooms, one of which is a dedicated electrophysiology (EPS) lab and another lab utilized for add-on EPS procedures.
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| Cath Lab Digest talks with John McB. Hodgson, MD, FSCAI, Professor of Medicine; Chief, Academic Cardiology, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona about ways stent implantation can be optimized to avoid this complication. |
Along with discontinued anti-platelet therapy, researchers are looking into the role of stent positioning and its association with stent thrombosis. What do we know so far?
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Extracorporeal Circulatory Support in the Cath Lab:
The TandemHeart Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device |
| Cath Lab Digest talks with Dr. Vijay K. Misra, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Section of Interventional Cardiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, about his work with this new device. |
How does the TandemHeart work?
TandemHeart is a percutaneous ventricular assist device offering active circulatory support. It draws oxygenated blood from the left atrium and uses a pump, housed outside the body, to return blood back into the femoral arterial system.
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The TAXUS ATLAS Trial:
Workhorse lesions and direct stenting with the Liberté paclitaxel-eluting stent |
| Cath Lab Digest talks with Mark A. Turco, MD, FACC, SCAI, Director, Center for Cardiac & Vascular Research, Washington Adventist Hospital, Takoma Park, Maryland |
How do the TAXUS Express2 and Liberté stent platforms differ?
The TAXUS Liberté stent was designed specifically for drug delivery. It has a uniform cell architecture and a crossing profile smaller than the crossing profile of the Express2 platform.
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Letter to the Editor |
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Dear Editor,
After reading “The CARE Bill: Regulating minimum education and credentialing standards for allied health professionals involved in radiology procedures,” in the November 2006 issue of Cath Lab Digest, we would like to explain some of the reasons why the Hawaii Society of Radiologic Technologists (HSRT) has come out against the CARE Bill.
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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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Recent consternation about the potential of subacute thrombosis (SAT) of drug-eluting stents (DES) prompted the FDA to examine data from a large series of trials discussing the potential adverse effects for the millions of patients receiving DES.
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Thai Cardiovascular Invasive Society (TCIS) and Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP)
Review Seminar, Cardiac Catheterization 2006
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SICP President's Message |
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Participation in your professional society enriches your career. Please take the time to renew your membership in the Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals. If you are not a member, I urge you to join now. The SICP is the only society dedicated to promoting the practices of invasive cardiovascular professionals and endorsed by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions.
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SICP Chapter News |
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The Emerald Coast Chapter of the SICP would like to invite our fellow cardiovascular professionals to Pensacola, Florida for an RCIS Review Course with Pat Thomas on February 3, 2007.
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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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