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Cath Lab Digest - ISSN: 1073-2667 - Volume 16 - Issue 3 - March 2008 | |
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| Deryck Yarde, RN, BSN, CCRN, Manager, Cardiac Cath Lab,
Haleh Eskandari, RN, MSN, CCRN, RCIS, Clinical Educator, Cardiac Cath Lab, Atlanta, Georgia
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Cath Lab Digest talks with Robert O. Bonow, MD, Goldberg Distinguished Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Chief, Division of Cardiology, Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Co-director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Chicago, Illinois
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STEMI Interventions: Commentary
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| Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, MBA |
Dr. Mehta will be commenting on the important work going on around the world as societies and their hospitals struggle to educate patients about the importance of timely intervention in ST-elevation myocardial infarction, and work collaboratively to decrease the time from patient arrival to intervention.
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Advantages of a New Digital Lab at Baystate Medical Center |
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Cath Lab Digest talks with Marc J. Schweiger, MD, FACC, Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Gregory R. Giugliano, MD, SM, FACC, FSCAI,
Associate Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Cardiology Research,
Springfield, Massachusetts.
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NtenseV Care |
| Tammy Sommer, RT
Cardiac Cath Lab
Sherman Health, Elgin, Illinois |
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A Citywide Protocol for Primary PCI in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction |
| Michel R. Le May, MD, Derek Y. So, MD, Richard Dionne, MD, Chris A. Glover, MD, Michael P.V. Froeschl, MD, George A. Wells, PhD, Richard F. Davies, MD, Heather L. Sherrard, RN, Justin Maloney, MD, Jean-François Marquis, MD, Edward R. O’Brien, MD, John Trickett, RN, Pierre Poirier, ACP, Sheila C. Ryan, BSc, Andrew Ha, MD, Phil G. Joseph, MD, and Marino Labinaz, MD |
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Precious Minutes |
| Gerard Lagasse, RCIS
Borgess Medical Center
Kalamazoo, Michigan
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Vascular Care in the Cath Lab: Planning a Smooth Transition |
| James Burns, Vice President, Corazon, Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Overall, the most important part of incorporating these
procedures into your lab is
planning. Programs can
succumb to physician or
administration pressures before there is a completely thought-out plan to implement change.
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What Do You Think? |
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Multiple new and ongoing questions from readers.
Your responses are welcome!
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Experience with a New Guidewire:
The Terumo Runthrough NS |
| Cath Lab Digest talks with Samin Sharma, MD, FACC, Co-Director of the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health, and Director of Interventional Cardiology and the Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York about his experience with the Runthrough NS (Terumo Interventional Systems, Somerset, New Jersey).
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The Ostial Pro™ Stent Positioning System:
Perfecting Aorto-Ostial Stent Placement |
| Frank S. Saltiel, MD, FACC, FSCAI, President, Illinois Heart & Vascular Foundation; Director, Interventional Cardiology Adventist Midwest Health, Lagrange, Illinois
Tim A. Fischell, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Director, Cardiovascular Research;
Professor of Medicine, Michigan State University
Borgess Heart Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan |
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Intravascular Ultrasound in the Cath Lab: A powerful — and underutilized — tool to improve patient outcomes |
| Cath Lab Digest talks with Michael C. Foster, MD, FACC, South Carolina Heart Center, Columbia, South Carolina; Medical Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Providence Hospital, Columbia, South Carolina |
Cath Lab Digest talks with Michael C. Foster, MD, FACC, South Carolina Heart Center, Columbia, South Carolina; Medical Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Providence Hospital, Columbia, South Carolina
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DRUG-ELUTING STENT SOLUTIONS |
| Dr. Adhir R. Shroff and Peter T. Kondos, BS, RT |
This monthly column in Cath Lab Digest reviews important points of distinction in drug-eluting stents (DES), from characteristics to techniques, so that physicians have valuable and relevant information about this revolutionary technology.
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A Workflow Revolution in Cath Lab Reporting |
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Cath Lab Digest talks with Paul A Webster Jr, RT(R), Lead Technologist, Children’s Hospital of Michigan Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Detroit, Michigan, about his cath lab’s use of syngo® Dynamics (Siemens Medical, Malvern, PA).
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Cardiac Computed Tomography:
What does it mean for the cath lab? |
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Cath Lab Digest talks to Stephan Achenbach, MD, FESC, FACC, of the Department of Cardiology, University of Erlangen–Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany. Dr. Achenbach is the founding and immediate past president of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT).
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Cellular Cardiomyoplasty and Cardiac Regeneration |
| Lakshmana Pendyala, MD1, Radhika Gadesam, MD1,
Ioana Ghiu, MD, Dongming Hou, MD, PhD1, and
Nicolas Chronos, MD1
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| Neil E. Holtz, BS, EMT-P, CVT, Phyllis Williams, RN, AND, CEN, CVT, Pattie Freschett, RN, BSN, CVT, Charles O. Williams, BS, RPA, RT(R)(CV)(CI), RCIS, CPFT, CCT, FSICP |
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