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, hypertensionheart failure and percutenous coronary interventions (PCI).

Feature | Carolyn Dickens, NP, University of Illinois at Chicago

With the increased use of transradial cardiac catheterization throughout hospitals across the country, several results ...

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Feature | John Kao, M.D., FACC

Heart disease remains the number one killer of both men and women in the United States, with ST elevation ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

Over the last 10 years, hospitals have phased out analog image intensifiers for flat-panel, digital detector angiography ...

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March 18, 2011 – A clinical trial testing a robotic system to remotely deliver and manipulating coronary guide ...

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March 18, 2011 – Circulating through the bloodstream of every human being is a rare and powerful type of cell, one ...

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March 10, 2011 – A newly introduced catheter provides a superior answer for percutaneous fluid aspirations and ...

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Physio-Control has acquired Swedish-based Jolife AB, the developer and manufacturer the automated Lucas Chest ...

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Circadian rhythms affect the incidence of coronary stent thrombosis, with more events occurring during the early ...

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March 7, 2011 – Last week Medtronic Inc. cancelled its five contracts with Novation LLC, one of the largest U.S ...

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March 7, 2011 – A pilot study testing a system designed to improve acute coronary syndrome (ACS) revascularization ...

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March 4, 2011 - Occlutech GmbH received a favorable court ruling in Stockholm, Sweden in the ongoing patent ...

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March 4, 2011 – A new generation of a mobile C-arm has been launched, offering outstanding imaging and a liquid ...

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March 2, 2011 – The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) announced recommendations for ...

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February 28, 2011 – Scientists have identified a protein that plays a key role in debilitating changes that occur ...

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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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