Interventional cardiology is a specialized field of cardiology that focuses on catheter-based heart procedures. Catheter procedures use small, hollow tubes (catheters) inserted through your blood ...

Central venous catheters (CVCs) help deliver medication, fluids, blood, or nutrition. They can also be useful for monitoring and performing certain tests and procedures. Placing CVCs or central lines ...

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LIMA — It may sound like the latest hip coffee house or cocktail spot, but the cath lounge is actually a new setting for heart catheterization. The “lounge” is a living room-like setting at St. Rita’s ...

Patient flow in the cath suite generally has followed predictable patterns that are evidenced in many procedure suites and surgery centers. There is a waiting room easily available upon patient ...

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 ...

Though it remains a common practice, requiring patients to have nothing by mouth (NPO) for several hours before percutaneous cardiovascular procedures doesn’t appear to have any advantages over ...

A catheter is a long, flexible tube that a doctor inserts into a blood vessel and then guides into your heart. Catheter ablation is a way to treat irregular heartbeats, or arrhythmias, like atrial ...