June 2011

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Volume 19 Issue 6

Editorial Staff

Clinical Editor
Morton Kern, MD
Executive Editor
Laurie Gustafson
Managing Editor
Rebecca Kapur
Production Manager
Elizabeth Vasil

Editorial Correspondence

Rebecca Kapur, Managing Editor, Cath Lab Digest
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News
Cordis Receives FDA Approval for Exoseal™ Vascular Closure DeviceCordis Corporation announced the approval of the Exoseal™ Vascular Closure Device in the U.S. Exoseal incorporates a number of new advances in technology and simplicity of design to pro…
What Do You Think?
Manual sheath removal and post careI was wondering if there is any educational information you could recommend that I could share with my ICU and Telemetry units to help them to be more proficient in this area.Thank you, Margaret Frank Email: robertf…
News from the Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals (SICP)
SICP UPDATERegister Today: SICP Annual Meeting, July 28-30, 2011, Boston MARegistration is open and available online at www.sicp.com. Please make your plans to participate in this much-anticipated meeting.   
Do You Know Your Radiation Dose During Your Cath?
I recently learned that I could see my real-time x-ray dose while doing a case. My x-ray system (Philips, Bothell, Wash.) has a display (see Figures) on the left side of the monitors that shows my table height, source-to-image distance (SID), and fla…
Looking into the Crystal Ball…Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and the Future
Our December 2009 Cath Lab Digest article entitled “State of the Union: What is Keeping You Up at Night?” made some predictions about the future of healthcare. One prediction was that a new focus on prevention and chronic disease management would sur…
What is the NCDR and Why is it Important to Me?
So much research is happening today in cardiology. Who is doing the research, and where are the patients coming from?There are many hospitals nationwide participating in research as a part of the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR®). The NCD…
Treating a Chronic Total Occlusion Via the Transradial Approach
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Ask the Clinical Instructor: A Q&A Column for Those New to the Cath Lab
“When I was first taught how to do angiograms, I was told that you never want to leave blood in the sidearm of the sheath. I was to aspirate to make sure there was no clot and then flush with sterile heparinized saline. Now, we are composing a protoc…
Rotational Atherectomy: An Invaluable Tool for Complex Lesions
One of the Achilles’ heels of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is severe, complex calcification. The presence of severe calcification in vessels may prevent the full balloon dilatation of a lesion. Optimal stent expansion and apposition are t…
A Peripheral Fem-to-Fem Bypass With Impella Use
Cath Lab Digest talks with Wissam Gharib, MD, FACC, FSCAI, West Virginia University Heart Institute, West Virginia University Hospitals, Morgantown, West Virginia, about his use of the left ventricular assist Impella device (Abiomed, Danvers, Mass.).…