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Cath Lab Digest - ISSN: 1073-2667 - Volume 16 - Issue 1 - January 2008
Cath Lab Spotlight:
Central Baptist Hospital
Nanette Jackson, RT(R), Director, Cardiovascular Services, Debbie Gatewood, RN, BSN, Cath Lab Educator, and Christine McIntyre, RN, BSN, MHA, Director of the Central Baptist Heart and Vascular Institute, Lexington, Kentucky
Marsha Holton, CCRN, RCIS, FSICP Cardiovascular Orientation Programs, Indian Head, Maryland

18:20 To Denver — One Student’s First Clinical Experience
Cassidy Lilienthal, CVT Student Spokane Community College, Spokane, Washington

What Do You Think?
Answer or pose a question at cathlabdigest@aol.com.
Multiple new and ongoing questions from readers. Your responses are welcome!

The Ten-Minute Interview with…
Heather Vardon, RN Supervisor, Interventional Cardiovascular Services Aurora BayCare Medical Center, Green Bay, Wisconsin

DRUG-ELUTING STENT SOLUTIONS: The Massachusetts Stent Study
Laura Mauri, MD, MSc

The Value of Educating Staff
Carol Dombrowicki, Recruitment Consultant, Corazon, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ask the Clinical Instructor
Todd Ginapp, EMT-P, RCIS, FSICP

Contrast Media Use in High-Risk Patients
Cath Lab Digest talks with Roxana Mehran, MD

Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy, a.k.a., Transient Left Ventricular Apical Ballooning Syndrome: An Acute Coronary Syndrome Imposter
Brenda McCulloch, RN, MSN, CNS

STEMI Interventions: Searching for the Key to D2B
Dan Scharbach, Regional Director, Invasive Cardiovascular Services Providence Health System, Portland Service Area, Portland, Oregon
Morton Kern, MD
Our bottom line for the IABP is that it has the potential to increase flow across stenoses which are only moderately narrowed.

STEMI Interventions
Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, MBA
Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals:
January 2008 Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP) News

The Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals Holds an RCIS Review Course at New Cardiovascular Horizons
Darren Powell, RCIS, FSICP, Program Director, Invasive Cardiovascular Technology Program, Spokane, Washington

 



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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