Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories: Should Every Hospital Have One?

Should every adult patient in the hospital have an internist?

ACC/AHA guidelines for cardiac catheterization and cardiac catheterization laboratories. American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Ad Hoc Task Force on Cardiac Catheterization.

It is evident that the practice of cardiac catheterization has undergone, and continues to undergo, marked change. Most prominent are the recent very rapid proliferation of catheterization laboratories in general and the development of newer types of catheterization laboratory. No uniform definitions exist for these newer laboratories, so meaningful communication is difficult. The new settings ...

Heliox should be available in every community hospital.

The June special issue of RESPIRATORY CARE features 6 symposium papers about the use of heliox gas. I agree with the guest editor, James Fink, that the issue is a “valuable resource for clinicians.”1 I write this letter because I think heliox has a special role in community hospitals; in fact, I believe that heliox should be available in every community hospital. In community hospitals, surgeon...

Mobile cardiac catheterization laboratories increase use of cardiac care in women and African Americans.

BACKGROUND Women and minorities traditionally have shown less use of diagnostic cardiac catheterization. We sought to determine whether mobile cardiac catheterization laboratories may increase the use of catheterization among women and minorities by bringing the technology to remote communities. METHODS We collected data on consecutive patients undergoing cardiac catheterization at mobile lab...

What every pediatrician should know about liver transplantation

Liver transplantation is the treatment of choice for children with end-stage liver disease.  Improvement in outcomes (allograft and patient survival) has led to widespread use of pediatric LT worldwide. This success is due to improvement in patient selection, transplant surgery, anesthesia/postoperative care and immunosuppression management. This review will focus on different aspects of LT whi...