(UPDATED) In a hospital system designed to activate the cardiac catherization laboratory following a prehospital ECG or emergency department diagnosis of STEMI, 65% of lab activations are ultimately ...

The Florida Institute for Angiography of Sarasota held a grand re-opening last month to celebrate the unveiling of its newly renovated Philips Azurion Cath Lab offers patients and physicians ...

A speedy trip to the cath lab for coronary angiography is not linked to better outcomes in patients who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest but do not have ST-segment elevation on an initial ECG, ...

Operators safely shaved a few minutes off heart attack reperfusion times by taking patients straight to culprit lesion percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) when they arrived at the catheterization ...

A $5 million overhaul of Lawrence + Memorial Hospital’s Cardiac Catheterization Lab means doctors can do more complex and advanced heart and vascular procedures with state-of-the-art technology ...

Kirtane: The COACT trial is a pretty important trial for interventional cardiologists because oftentimes we get called from the emergency room or even out of the hospital for patients that have a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Srihari S. Naidu, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, director of the cath lab at Westchester Medical Center, professor of ...

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The Boise VA Medical Center held an Open House to celebrate the opening of the new Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory (Cath Lab), last week. The new Cardiac Cath Lab will allow the Boise VA Medical ...

"Nowadays it takes longer time to order a caffe latte at the nearby Starbucks than to get a cardiac CT" --Peter J. Fitzgerald, MD, PhD, Stanford University Medical Center (Stanford, California) The ...