Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A new survey from the Healthy Cath Lab Study Group highlights increased risk for health problems among cardiac ...

Operator experience per se is not necessarily associated with a decrease of the radiation dose per procedure. Experienced operators can choose to make complex, time-consuming procedures and they can ...

Dignity Health French Hospital Medical Center opened its new state-of-the-art heart catheterization lab and performed its first procedure this week, officials with the hospital announced, making it ...

Implementation of certain technical and clinical practice changes resulted in reduced patient and provider radiation exposure during pediatric cardiac catheterization procedures, according to data ...

Skills required to perform safe and successful cardiac catheterization can be learned via mentored simulation training and are transferable to actual procedures in the cath lab, according to a study ...

Healthcare workers in cardiac catheterization labs may have higher odds than workers elsewhere for health problems including cataracts, skin lesions, cancers and orthopedic illness. Estimated exposure ...

Based on these findings, radiation exposure during cardiac catheterization with ALARA seems to compare favorably against published values, as Goto cited prior reports of air Kerma reaching 370-400 mGy ...

Orlando Health St. Cloud has opened a new cardiac catheterization lab and intensive care unit as part of a $32 million ...

Cardiac catheterization and angiograms are medical procedures that allow doctors to examine the inside of the heart and arteries. However, there are some differences between the two. Cardiac ...

QUEBEC CITY, QC — Transradial access for PCI is associated with a "small but significant" increase in operator and patient radiation exposure during both diagnostic and interventional procedures ...