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CONSULTING EDITORS MORTON KERN, MD Clinical Editor, Cath Lab Digest Clinical Professor of Medicine Associate Chief Cardiology University of California Irvine • Orange, CA ROBERT J. BASILE, SR., RT(R) Hackettstown Regional Medical Center Hackettstown, NJ A Product, News and Clinical Update for the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Specialist March 2008 vol.16 no.3 DOUGLAS S. BEINBORN, MA, RN Mayo Clinic • Rochester, MN Saint Joseph’s Hospital Deryck Yarde, RN, BSN, CCRN, Manager, Cardiac Cath Lab, Haleh Eskandari, RN, MSN, CCRN, RCIS, Clinical Educator, Cardiac Cath Lab, Atlanta, Georgia HEIDI N. BONNEAU, RN, MS Highlands Consulting, Inc. • San Jose, CA 54 Groin Bleeds and Other Hemorrhagic Complications of Cardiac Catheterization: A list of relevant issues Jackson Thatcher, MD, FACC, Director of Inpatient Cardiology The Park Nicollet Heart Center at Methodist Hospital, St. Louis Park, Minnesota GEORGANN BRUSKI, RT(R), CRT, ARRT Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center • Boston, MA JACK P. CHEN, MD, FACC, FSCAI Northside Cardiology P.C. • Atlanta, GA Are You Being Paid Fair Market Value in 2008? A Cardiac Cath Lab Professionals Survey by Cath Lab Digest and the Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals. Thomas H. Maloney MS, RCIS, Richmond, Virginia 58 Ask the Clinical Instructor: A Q&A column for those new to the cath lab Questions are answered by: Todd Ginapp, EMT-P, RCIS, FSICP. Todd is the Cardiology Manager for Memorial Hermann Southeast in Houston, Texas. He also teaches an online RCIS Review course for Spokane Community College, in Spokane, Washington, and regularly presents with RCIS Review Courses. PATTI COBLENTZ, RN, BSN Provena Covenant Medical Center Urbana, IL Invasive Imaging Tools for Optimizing Coronary Stent Deployment Michael C. McDaniel, MD, Habib Samady, MD, FACC, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia ANDREA E. DAVIS, BA, RCIS, FSICP George Washington University Hospital Washington, D.C. MICHELE DOUGHTY VOELTZ, MD Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta, Georgia 16 A Workflow Revolution in Cath Lab Reporting Cath Lab Digest talks with Paul A Webster Jr, RT(R), Lead Technologist, Children’s Hospital of Michigan Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Detroit, Michigan, about his cath lab’s use of syngo® Dynamics (Siemens Medical, Malvern, PA). 62 Experience with a New Guidewire: The Terumo Runthrough NS Cath Lab Digest talks with Samin Sharma, MD, FACC, Co-Director of the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and the MarieJosée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health, and Director of Interventional Cardiology and the Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York about his experience with the Runthrough NS (Terumo Interventional Systems, Somerset, New Jersey). 64 DEPARTMENTS 6 60 75 83 83 84 Clinical Editor’s Corner What Do You Think? Cath Laughs Meetings Calendar CEU Education Center Clinical & Industry News 90 Classifieds 94 Advertisers Index © 2008, HMP Communications, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited. Opinions expressed by authors, contributors, and advertisers are their own and not necessarily those of HMP Communications, LLC, the editorial staff, or any member of the editorial advisory board. HMP Communications, LLC is not responsible for accuracy of dosages given in articles printed herein. 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HMP Communications Holdings, LLC’s whollyowned subsidiary, the North American Center for Continuing Medical Education (www.NACCME.com), provides a wide array of accredited CME offerings with industry thought leaders participating in Round Table Meetings, Webcasts, Symposia, Conferences, Seminars, Podcasts, and Satellite Programs. Discover more about HMP’s products and services at www.hmpcommunications.com. KENNETH A. GORSKI RN, RCIS, FSICP Sones Cardiac Catheterization Labs Cleveland Clinic Foundation • Cleveland, OH 17 Advantages of a New Digital Lab at Baystate Medical Center Cath Lab Digest talks with Marc J. Schweiger, MD, FACC, Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Gregory R. Giugliano, MD, SM, FACC, FSCAI, Associate Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Cardiology Research, Springfield, Massachusetts. TODD GINAPP, EMT-P, RCIS, FSICP Memorial Hermann Southeast Houston, Texas 64 The Ostial Pro™ Stent Positioning System: Perfecting Aorto-Ostial Stent Placement Frank S. Saltiel, MD, FACC, FSCAI, President, Illinois Heart & Vascular Foundation; Director, Interventional Cardiology Adventist Midwest Health, Lagrange, Illinois; Tim A. Fischell, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Director, Cardiovascular Research; Professor of Medicine, Michigan State University, Borgess Heart Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan STEVE GRESSMIRE, RT(R)(CV) ARRT, AAMA Mississippi 18 Cardiac Computed Tomography: What does it mean for the cath lab? Cath Lab Digest talks with Stephan Achenbach, MD, FESC, FACC, of the Department of Cardiology, University of Erlangen–Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany. Dr. Achenbach is the founding and immediate past president of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT). MARSHA HOLTON, RN, BS, CCRN, RCIS Cardiovascular Orientation Programs Indian Head, MD 68 Precious Minutes Gerard Lagasse, RCIS, Borgess Medical Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan GERALD LAGASSE, RCIS Borgess Medical Center • Kalamazoo, MI MICHAEL LIM, MD St. Louis Health Sciences Center St. Louis, MO 20 The Latest in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Cath Lab Digest talks with Robert O. Bonow, MD, Goldberg Distinguished Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Chief, Division of Cardiology, Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Co-director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Chicago, Illinois SICP: The Ten-Minute Interview with…Mark Bowles, BSN, CCRN Sacred Heart Hospital, Pensacola, Florida YOUR PATH TO SUCCESS: CAREER ADVICE TOM MALONEY, MS, RCIS Memorial Regional Medical Center Richmond, VA Vascular Care in the Cath Lab: Planning a Smooth Transition James Burns, Vice President, Corazon, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania JASON MONEY, RN, RCIS Elkins, AR 33 Cellular Cardiomyoplasty and Cardiac Regeneration Lakshmana Pendyala, MD1, Radhika Gadesam, MD1, Ioana Ghiu, MD, Dongming Hou, MD, PhD1, and Nicolas Chronos, MD1, 1Saint Joseph’s Translational Research Institute; Saint Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia BHAWNA OBEROI, BSRS-CBRPA, RT(R)(M) Sherman Radiology Associates Sherman, TX 76 CMS 2008 OPPS Final Rule Review John Rader, Jennifer Williams, Susan Heilman Healthcare Economics, Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota TIM ROHRSCHNEIDER, BMSC, RT(R) Emory University Hospital, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta • Atlanta, Georgia 42 Intravascular Ultrasound in the Cath Lab: A powerful — and underutilized — tool to improve patient outcomes Cath Lab Digest talks with Michael C. Foster, MD, FACC, South Carolina Heart Center, Columbia, South Carolina; Medical Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Providence Hospital, Columbia, South Carolina 80 An Extensive Set of Review Courses for the CCI Basic Science, Non-Invasive Echocardiography and Vascular, and ARDMS Ultrasound Exams Neil E. Holtz, BS, EMT-P, CVT, Phyllis Williams, RN, AND, CEN, CVT, Pattie Freschett, RN, BSN, CVT, Charles O. Williams, BS, RPA, RT(R)(CV)(CI), RCIS, CPFT, CCT, FSICP ANNIE RUPPERT, RN, BSN Sharp Memorial Hospital • San Diego, CA HABIB SAMADY, MD, FACC, FSCAI Emory University Hospital • Atlanta, Georgia DRUG-ELUTING STENT SOLUTIONS: The Stentplus™ Patient Success Program This monthly column in Cath Lab Digest reviews important points of distinction in drug-eluting stents, from characteristics to techniques, to provide valuable and relevant information about this technology. This month’s column features Dr. Adhir R. Shroff and Peter T. Kondos, BS, RT. JACKSON L. THATCHER, MD, FACC The Park Nicollet Heart Center at Methodist Hospital, St. Louis Park, MN SANDY WATSON, RN, BN, NFESC Switzerland STEMI INTERVENTIONS: Commentary on the recently published New England Journal of Medicine article, “A Citywide Protocol for Primary PCI in ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Elevation.” Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, MBA, Miami, FL CHUCK WILLIAMS, BS, RT(R)(CV)(CI), RCIS, FSICP Atlanta, GA 49 Cardiac Cath Lab Clutter — or, Spring into Action! Marshall W. Ritchey, MS, MBA, Presbyterian Hospital, U.P.M.C., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania http://www.hmpcommunications.com

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Cath Lab Digest - March 2008 Are You Being Paid Fair Market Value in 2008? A Cardiac Cath Lab Professionals Survey by Cath Lab Digest and the Society of Invasive Cardiovascular Professionals Saint Joseph’s Hospital Invasive Imaging Tools for Optimizing Coronary Stent Deployment Contents Clinical Editor’s Corner A Workflow Revolution in Cath Lab Reporting Advantages of a New Digital Lab at Baystate Medical Center Cardiac Computed Tomography: What Does it Mean for the Cath Lab? The Latest in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Cellular Cardiomyoplasty and Cardiac Regeneration Intravascular Ultrasound in the Cath Lab: A Powerful — and Underutilized — Tool to Improve Patient Outcomes The Stentplus™ Patient Success Program Cardiac Cath Lab Clutter — or, Spring into Action! Groin Bleeds and Other Hemorrhagic Complications of Cardiac Catheterization: A List of Relevant Issues Ask the Clinical Instructor: A Q&A Column for Those New to the Cath Lab What Do You Think? Experience with a New Guidewire: The Terumo Runthrough NS The Ostial Pro™ Stent Positioning System: Perfecting Aorto-Ostial Stent Placement Precious Minutes The Ten-Minute Interview with…Mark Bowles, BSN, CCRN Vascular Care in the Cath Lab: Planning a Smooth Transition Cath Laughs CMS 2008 OPPS Final Rule Review An Extensive Set of Review Courses for the CCI Basic Science, Non-Invasive Echocardiography and Vascular, and ARDMS Ultrasound Exams Meetings Calendar CEU Education Center Clinical & Industry News STEMI Interventions Classifieds Advertisers Index

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