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April 2013

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Volume 21 Issue 4
Christiana Care Health System Receives AHA’s Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award
Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, Delaware, has received the Get With The Guidelines–Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association (AHA).
SICP News: April 2013
Review courses and more information from the SICP.
What’s Your Hemodynamic IQ? Some Questions and Answers Regarding Hemodynamic Calculations and Other Issues in the Cath Lab
I love hemodynamics in the cath lab and appreciate the opportunity to address problems with measurements and their interpretation. Dr. Safwan Kassas, from the Michigan Cardiovascular Institute, asked the following questions concerning hemodynamic cal…
The 10-Minute Interview with… Patrick Hoier, BS, RCIS, FSICP
Patrick is the Director of the Invasive Cardiovascular Technology program at Southeast Technical Institute in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Aberrant Circumflex Coronary Artery Intervention Using the “Anchoring Wire” Technique
We present herein a case of successful intervention of sequential lesions in an aberrant circumflex artery arising from the right coronary ostium, using a 5 French guide catheter and an anchoring wire into the normal right coronary artery to enable s…
Severe Ebstein’s Anomaly with Ventricular Communications and Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome Presenting with Excess Pulmonary Blood Flow and Congestive Heart Failure
We present an infant with Ebstein’s anomaly and ventricular communications that permitted excess pulmonary blood flow in neonatal period.
Lesion Characterization Using Optical Coherence Tomography to Guide Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
We present a case of a lesion within a previously placed right coronary artery stent that was determined to be thrombotic in nature, thereby guiding the strategy for percutaneous coronary intervention.
Proposal of Manifold Variation for Use During Cardiac Catheterization
In order to decrease the rate of systemic or coronary air embolization during intracoronary medication delivery, our cardiac catherization laboratory has modified a 3-line manifold by inserting a stopcock pigtail attached to a 5 mL drug (nitroglyceri…
Congratulations!
Notification of cardiovascular professionals’ recent accomplishments. Email information to cathlabdigest@aol.com.
Trauma-Induced Coronary Artery Dissection
We report the case of a 22-year-old male with a dissected right coronary artery following a motor vehicle collision while riding his bicycle, and the steps taken to repair the dissection.