SCAI launches quality improvement toolkit (SCAI-QIT)

SCAI: Enhancing patient care through quality.

A primary objective of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions is to promote excellence in invasive and interventional cardiovascular medicine through physician education and representation, and the advancement of quality standards to enhance patient care. This focus on quality as it applies to the practice of invasive cardiology is unique to SCAI, and the Society has demon...

SCAI TREC-8 Experiments

This working note reports our experiences with TREC-8 on four tracks: Ad Hoc, Filtering, Web, and QA. The Ad Hoc retrieval engine, SCAIR, has been used for the Web and QA experiments, and the ltering experiments were based on it's own engine. As a second entry to TREC, we focused this year on exploring possibilities of applying machine learning techniques to TREC tasks. The Ad Hoc track employe...

SCAI Experiments on TREC - 9

SCAI/ACC/AHA Expert Consensus Document

2610 Introduction In 2007, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) published an Expert Consensus Document titled “The Current Status and Future Direction of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention without On-Site Surgical Backup.” This document summarized the available data on the performance of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) without on-site surgery in the Unite...

SCAI expert consensus statement for infrapopliteal arterial intervention appropriate use.

Intervention to treat infrapopliteal arterial disease can be challenging because the patients' comorbidities, the anatomic variables, and the limitations of our techniques. Clinical scenarios based on anatomic and clinical variables are presented. Recommendations regarding intervention (appropriate care, may be appropriate care, rarely appropriate care) are made based on best evidence.