TCT-637 Accuracy of Pre-Hospital EKG for Cath Lab Activation

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Managing Coronary Thrombus in the Cath Lab During PCI

The last two articles specifically address the question of therapeutic maneuvers for dealing with intracoronary thrombus during PCI. Either the thrombus is removed by aspiration or manual thrombectomy or embolic protection devices are deployed to prevent downstream embolization. Are there any other methods in selected cases? No one in the symposium has considered thrombolytic therapy as a metho...

Evaluation of Patient's Dose and Estimate of Cancer Risk in Electrophysiology Studies and Ablation in Cath Lab Center of Afshar Hospital, Yazd, Iran

Introduction: Today electrophysiology studies and ablation have been developed due to increasing arrhythmias disorder of heart. In these diagnostic – treatments methods, the use of fluoroscopy can be causes patient radiation dose, therefore evaluation of patient's absorbed dose is necessary to protection of the radiation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the absorbed dose in patients under...

Cath lab accreditation: our ACE in the hole.

This morning on the Fox News program ‘‘House Call,’’ internist and commentator Dr. Marc Siegel told viewers that one out of every seven patients who receives an angioplasty does not meet the criteria for it and that one out of every two patients gets an unnecessary stent. What people must do, he said, is make sure they have ‘‘a proper cardiologist treating you . . . one who won’t have a knee je...

Radiation exposure in different cardiac catheterization procedures in cath lab.

BACKGROUND Interventional procedures render cardiologolists and their team members to high doses of radiations. This study was conducted to assess the radiation exposure in various cardiac catheterization procedures. METHODS This descriptive cross sectional study was conducted at the catheterization laboratory of Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar from November 2008 to December 2009. Patients wer...