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Rebecca Kapur
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Rebecca Kapur, Managing Editor, Cath Lab Digest
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May 2015

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Volume 23 Issue 5
Hospital and Cardiologist Alignment: What’s Next? Making a Case for the Cath Lab Purchased Services Agreement (PSA)
Adopting a dyad structure to manage their cardiovascular service line may be the best option for providers, especially for the high-cost cardiac cath lab.
Spotlight: Osceola Regional Medical Center
We have 4 rooms, including 1 electrophysiology (EP) lab and 2 catheterization labs utilizing GE Innova imaging, and 1 hybrid lab utilizing Philips imaging.
A Newly Demonstrated Safe Approach: The Rationale for Intravenous rtPA Used in Acute Stroke Patients with an NIHSS of 5 or Less
As catheterization procedural volumes increase and the population ages, Corazon believes that preparation in the cath lab for an increased frequency of stroke is warranted.
Same Problem, Different Solution
The recently introduced Prodigy support catheter (Radius Medical) can be utilized both with complex percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) as well as in chronic total occlusion (CTO) cases.
Conversations in Cardiology: Should You Still Prepare the Femoral Site for Radial Cases?
Gus Pichard, Washington Heart Center, asks, “Mort, who among the radialists has stopped shaving the groin?
When to Use Adjunctive Therapy for Common Femoral Artery Revascularization in Non-Surgical Patients
The CFA is an important site for vascular access as well as an important site for bypass surgical procedures; therefore, typically, stenting is not considered an ideal treatment, although several reports have shown excellent stent patency.
ICD-10 Challenges in the Cath Lab
Without a doubt, the ICD-10-PCS transition will create a myriad of challenges for coding within the cath lab and throughout the healthcare industry.
The Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals New 2015 Educational Guidelines for Invasive Cardiovascular Technology Personnel in the Cardiovascular Catheterization Laboratory
The 2015 Educational Guidelines for Invasive Cardiovascular Technology Personnel in the Cardiovascular Catheterization Laboratory standards are intended to provide a framework for invasive cardiovascular programs as they develop or refine their curri…
How to Find and Train Inexperienced Staff to Work in the Cardiac Cath Lab
Sounds pretty easy, right? In reality, it is a very difficult task to find and train inexperienced staff to work in the cardiac cath lab.  
The Use of iFR Measurements to Simplify Decision Making for PCI
iFR assesses whether a stenosis is causing a limitation of blood flow in coronary arteries with subsequent ischemia without the requirement of running adenosine.