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Author(s): Robert J Applegate Added: 3 years ago
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction Achieving reperfusion in a timely fashion in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) has been established as an effective and life-saving treatment.1–4 This has usually been measured as door-to-balloon time with an established goal of 90 minutes as the time within which reperfusion should be achieved… View more

MI/ACS

Intervention
Optimal Haemodynamic Support during Cardiac arrest in the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory
Author(s): Kapil Lotun Added: 6 years ago

MI/ACS
Author(s): Michael Lauterbach , Bruno Sontag , Karl-Eugen Hauptmann Added: 3 years ago
Over the past nine years, since the first transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) by Cribier et al.1 in France in 2002, this new technique has enthralled cardiologists all over the world. With the deployment of TAVI – about 40,000 procedures have been carried out worldwide so far – cardiologists intruded into the previously unshared domain of surgical aortic valve replacement. Albeit… View more

Vascular Disease and Surgery

Imaging & Diagnostics
Lead Protected Cap in the Cath Lab
Author(s): Yasar Sattar , Prasanna M Sengodan , Mustafa Sajjad Cheema , et al Added: 10 months ago

Standards & Guidelines

Intervention
Contemporary Management of Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest in the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory: Current Status and Future Directions
Author(s): Nilesh Pareek , Peter Kordis , Ian Webb , et al Added: 3 years ago
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is defined as the sudden absence of cardiac mechanical contractility with loss of signs of circulation that occurs within a community setting.1 OHCA affects more than half a million patients globally per year and is one the leading causes of death in developing countries.2 In the US, OHCA affects 350,000 patients per year and is the third leading cause of… View more

Intervention
Author(s): Olivier Bar Added: 3 years ago
An Introduction to Radiation X-rays, so-called because their nature was at the time unknown, were discovered by the German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895, one year before the discovery of ‘natural’ radioactivity by Henri Becquerel.1 X-rays found application in radiography a few years after their discovery, although the first side effect attributed to radiation injury (depilation) had been… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Intervention
Exercise Right Heart Catheterisation in Cardiovascular Diseases: A Guide to Interpretation and Considerations in the Management of Valvular Heart Disease
Author(s): Felipe H Valle , Basma Mohammed , Stephen P Wright , et al Added: 3 years ago

Heart Failure
José P Henriques
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Director of the Catheterisation Laboratory
Dr José P Henriques is Director of the Catheterisation Laboratory at the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam. He also leads the Academic Medical Centre Mechanical support for Acute Congestive Heart failure in ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients (AMC MACH) programme. Dr Henriques gained his MD from the University of Amsterdam and his PhD in medicine from the… View more
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Job title: Director of Cardiology and Catheterisation Laboratories
Dr Shigeru Saito is the Director of Cardiology and Catheterisation Laboratories, at Shonan Kamakura General Hospital in Kamakura,Japan. Dr Saito is one of the leading supporters and practitioners of transradial coronary intervention (TRI) in the world. As an evangelist for TRI, he has travelled the world to teach and demonstrate the benefits and techniques of this alternative to the femoral… View more