When a lab is transitioning from transfemoral to transradial cardiac catheterizations, the process can be either ...
Cath Lab
The catheterization lab channel includes content related to interventional technologies for coronary and peripheral artery disease (PAD). Other cath lab transcatheter device technologies covered on this page included percutaneous treatment for stroke, venous interventions, heart valves, hypertension, heart failure and percutenous coronary interventions (PCI).
Feature | Radial Access | Angela Iverson RT (R), Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago
May 18, 2011
Feature | Intravascular Imaging | Dave Fornell
There are many advantages to using optical coherence tomography (OCT) intravascular imaging. However ...
May 18, 2011Feature | Mladen I. Vidovich, M.D., FACC, FSCAI
There were 15 abstracts presented describing radial access and intervention during the American College of Cardiology ...
May 18, 2011Sponsored Content
Blog | Contrast Media Injectors
Adjustable parameters on the ACIST® CVI® Contrast Delivery System include, flow rate, volume, pressure limit, rise time ...
August 22, 2023
Feature | Adhir Shroff, M.D., MPH
The results of the highly anticipated RIVAL (RadIal Vs. femorAL access for coronary intervention)[1,2] trial were ...
May 18, 2011
Feature | Dave Fornell
As medicine continues its march away from open surgical procedures to minimally invasive and transcatheter treatments ...
May 18, 2011
May 16, 2011 - The German Supreme Court (BGH) declared a structural heart occluder patent case to be invalid. In the ...
May 16, 2011Sponsored Content
Blog | Enterprise Imaging
As medical advancements continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in the field of structural heart ...
August 10, 2023Alcohol Injections Safer, Less Costly Than Surgery for Thickened Heart Muscle
May 10, 2011 – In a “real-world” test ...
May 10, 2011May 6, 2011 — When health quality experts take out a magnifying glass these days, they aren’t just looking at procedural ...
May 06, 2011May 6, 2011 – African American patients who undergo angioplasty and stenting fare worse over the long run than patients ...
May 06, 2011Sponsored Content
Case Study | Baylor Scott and White Heart Hospital
While the current positive revolution in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) practice has been made possible by the ...
May 05, 2023
Feature | Dave Fornell
In a move that will likely have a significant impact on how many patients are treated for carotid artery disease, the U ...
May 06, 2011May 4, 2011 – Doctors should consider using catheterization as a treatment tool in addition to its established role in ...
May 04, 2011
Death rates are similar at one year for a catheter-based aortic valve replacement procedure and conventional surgery in ...
April 28, 2011Sponsored Content
During cardiology fellowship, my institution had a hand manifold system. I found it difficult to use at times, and it ...
April 11, 2023
The RIVAL Trial, the largest randomized trial to compare radial access and femoral access for coronary angiography and ...
April 28, 2011
April 21, 2011 - Philips Healthcare and Corindus Inc. today announced an alliance agreement to add Corindus’ robotic ...
April 20, 2011
April 20, 2011 – Philips has announced the world’s first hybrid operating room (OR) with the new FlexMove - a ...
April 20, 2011