Multimodality imaging in the cardiac catheterization lab continues to develop with rapid advancements in the use of intracardiac echocardiography, 3D and multidetector computed tomography with ...

Sharon Holmes, a catheterization laboratory — cath lab — nurse at Sinai Hospital, has been in the profession for 18 years. I graduated from an accredited nursing school and started my career in a ...

The American Heart Association (AHA) has released a new scientific statement that clarifies the role of the cath lab in managing patients who’ve experienced out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), both ...

Upstream activation of the catheterization laboratory by emergency medical services (EMS) technicians and emergency department physicians for patients suspected of suffering an ST-segment elevation ...

People who went into cardiac arrest in the cardiac catheterization lab were more likely to survive to hospital discharge than those who had a cardiac arrest in the intensive care unit (ICU), yet less ...

However, for procedures in the catheterization lab, fasting may not reduce aspiration risk and there are downsides, such as patient discomfort, water depletion, poor blood sugar control and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Time is heart, and time is brain," said President and Chief Administrative Officer of Cumberland Medical Center Randy Davis. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University Hospitals Portage Medical Center has opened a cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology laboratory at the Ravenna ...

The manifolds inside these kits have been linked to a significant risk of contamination. The FDA is urging users to place a ...

Interv Cardiol. 2013;5(3):335-344. In the authors' experience, CT-overlay can be particularly useful in patients presenting for paravalvular leak closure or pulmonary vein stenting. With accurate ...