This PCI-first strategy resulted in approximately 6-minute-faster needle-to-balloon times than the usual sequence of complete diagnostic coronary angiography (CAG) followed by culprit lesion PCI ...

A new, state-of-the-art cardiac catheterisation lab is now operational at Tauranga Hospital, significantly improving access to diagnostic and ...

Early angiography was variably defined across studies: it was within 2 hours in five studies, within 6 hours in two studies, within 12 hours in one study, and within 24 hours in two studies. Another ...

Earlier this month, Durand and colleagues published an algorithm, based on platelet counts and thromboelastography (TEG), that suggests a cutoff of 50,000/mm 3 can be used for coronary angiography ...

The Philips Azurion Cath Lab offers physicians and patients state-of-the-art technology. By Staff March 8, 2021 Florida Institute for Angiography of Sarasota's newly renovated cath lab.

“Sudden cardiac death is the leading cause of death in firefighters nationally, and it accounts for 40% of all line-of-duty ...

In the new analysis, which covers more than 40,000 patients with STEMI in Sweden, the 38% who received heparin before cath-lab arrival were 11% less likely to show IRA occlusion at angiography ...

Coronary angiography was performed in 95.5% and 62.2% of the immediate and selective angiography groups, respectively. Median time from arrest to coronary angiography was 2.9 versus 46.9 hours.

As explained by one cardiologist, Duke University's Dan Mark, with CTA "only the patients who needed revascularization would actually go to the cath lab and the rest would avoid it," leading to a ...

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 ...

Cath lab personnel wear lead aprons, weighing 15 to 20 pounds, to protect themselves from radiation exposure. But the weight of wearing the protective equipment places them at high risk of ...