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March 2008

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Volume 16 Issue 3
James Burns, Vice President, Corazon, Inc.
Vascular Care in the Cath Lab: Planning a Smooth Transition
There is significantly more peripheral vasculature than cardiac, and often disease in one area indicates disease in another. Furthermore, many of the diagnostic and interventional procedures to treat cardiac and vascular disease are based on the same…
CMS 2008 OPPS Final Rule Review
As the range of today’s cardiovascular procedures continues to expand and their sites of service shift, familiarity with coding and reimbursement changes is critically important to assure compliance with CMS’s regulations and appropriate integrity of…
Pattie Freschett, RN, BSN, CVT
An Extensive Set of Review Courses for the CCI Basic Science, Non-Invasive Echocardiography and Vascular, and ARDMS Ultrasound E
Pegasus Lectures, Inc. presented an extensive board review courses for the Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI) Basic Science Review, Echocardiography, and American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Stenographers (ARDMS) Ultrasound Exams in…
Figure 1. Photograph of the Ostial Pro stent positioning system. The panel on the left shows the Ostial Pro with the slit, cylindrical segment just distal to the guide tip. The right panel illustrates the proper position of the device in preparation fo
The Ostial Pro Stent Positioning System:Perfecting Aorto-Ostial Stent Placement
Disclosure: Dr. Saltiel and Dr. Fischell hold a financial interest in Ostial Solutions, Inc., which owns the Ostial Pro. Introduction As the field of interventional cardiology has continued to progress, the need for lesion-specific devices for co…
Precious Minutes
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Mark Bowles, BSN, CCRN
The Ten-Minute Interview with: Mark Bowles, BSN, CCRN
Why did you choose to work in the invasive cardiology field? Critical care nursing is one of the most stable positions when compared to any other nursing job. After 11 years, a change seemed in order. Cardiology was always a favorite subject and thi…
Marshall W. Ritchey, MS, MBA, Presbyterian Hospital, U.P.M.C., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cardiac Cath Lab Clutter or, Spring into Action!
You’ve heard about the spring cleaning. You have heard about organization. But have you heard about cleaning up your act? In the cardiac catheterization laboratory, a great deal of clutter seems to accumulate. Unnecessary items, duplicate, triplicate…
Dr. Adhir R. Shroff
DRUG-ELUTING STENT SOLUTIONS
Dr. Adhir R. Shroff is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Illinois – Chicago Medical School; Director of the Cardiovascular Catheterization Laboratory at the University of Illinois – Chicago Medical Center; and Attending Physicia…
Groin Bleeds and Other Hemorrhagic Complications of Cardiac Catheterization: A list of relevant issues
Hemorrhagic complications of cardiac catheterization remain one of the most common adverse outcomes of the procedure. Along with cerebrovascular events and contrast-induced nephropathy, bleeding complications far outweigh the cardiovascular complicat…
Todd Ginapp, EMT-P, RCIS, FSICP
Ask the Clinical Instructor
Amyloidosis (am’i – loy- doh’sis) is a disease characterized by extracellular accumulation of amyloid in various organs of the body.1 The cause of this disease is the deposit of amyloid, a type of protein, that when abnormally present in the body, ca…