Cardiovascular Education

This channel includes videos and articles to help explain various cardiovascluar practices, procedures, and technologies.

Videos | Pacemakers

This video, provided by Abbott/St. Jude Medical, demonstrates how the Nanostim leadless pacemaker is delivered via ...

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An example of iterative reconstruction image reconstruction to improve the image quality of low dose CT scans to enable lower dose imaging
Feature | Computed Tomography (CT) | Dave Fornell

Radiation exposure from multidetector computed tomography (CT) has become a pressing public health concern in both lay ...

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Videos | Vena Cava Filters

This video, provided by Crux Biomedical, demonstrates the implantation of the FDA-cleared Crux VCF inferior vena cava ...

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A radial artery angiogram demonstrating perforation of the radial artery at the bifurcation with the brachial artery, with evidence of extravasation of contra
Feature | Radial Access | Asim R. Zaidi, M.D., Mladen I. Vidovich, M.D., Adhir R. Shroff, M.D., and Bernadette Speiser, MSN, CCRN

 


The radial artery approach is exceptionally well-suited for diagnostic angiography and, with a lower incidence of ...

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Videos | Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)

This video, provided by Boston Scientific, shows how to implant the subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator ...

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hybrid OR, hybrid cath lab
Feature | Hybrid OR | Dave Fornell

One of the biggest trends is the creation of hybrid operating rooms (ORs) that bring together the best of both surgical ...

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radial access, transradial hemostasis compression band
Feature | Radial Access | Lidia Bochenek-Cobb BSN, CCRN and Katherine Durham BSN, CCRN, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center

Transradial catheterization is increasingly becoming the access site of choice for many hospitals throughout the United ...

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Choosing Tools for Transradial, Radial access, procedures.
Feature | Radial Access | Angela Iverson RT (R), Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago

When a lab is transitioning from transfemoral to transradial cardiac catheterizations, the process can be either ...

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BMW guidewire, Abbott guidewires, guide wire technology, guidewires 101, what is a guidewire
Feature | Guidewires | Dave Fornell


Tiny guide wires are designed to navigate vessels to reach a lesion or vessel segment. Once the tip of the ...

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radial access side board for radial artery access procedures in the cath lab
Feature | Radial Access | Bernadette Speiser

The femoral artery approach for cardiac catheterizations has been used as the gold-standard in the United States, but ...

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