Interventional Cardiology Education - February, 2014

 

 
Welcome
 This web site is designed to assist students, residents, fellows, nurses, physicians and industry personnel associated with cath lab procedures and equipment to learn more and contribute to their profession and the care of their patients. Books and Case presentations, tips, tricks, and notes about work in the cath lab and educational activity for interventional cardiology will appear on the web pages.  

The CATH LAB Essentials Live course at UCI was held January 25, 2014. You may download PDFs of the topics.  We hope you will be able to attend next year's course, 2015, day tbd.   

Morton J. Kern, MD, FSCAI, FAHA, FACC
Professor of Medicine
Chief of Medicine/Cardiology Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital
Associate Chief Cardiology University of California, Irvine                                               
University of California, Irvine Medical Center                                        
Email: mkern@uci.edu; mortonkern2007@gmail.com

Words on Vascular Access

In the 5th edition of the Cardiac Catheterization Handbook, new material has been added to replace historic but now obsolete discussions and methods.  As in the previous editions, the initial chapters are designed to assist the novice and new comer, including nurses, technicians, students, residents, fellows-in-training and new industry representatives to the cath lab.  Descriptions on how the procedure should flow, what steps should be learned first, how to approach patients undergoing this often frightening test, being part of the cath lab team, and similar work matters are presented.  New sections address recent requirement concerning conscious sedation, time-outs, informed consent, and work place safety. 
        The most updated material is the vascular access technique in Chapter 2.  Radial artery access has been strongly emphasized.  The newest femoral vascular closure devices are briefly presented.  Below are some of the pictures used to describe the recent Armend Glove sterile prep for radial access published in Cath Lab Digest May 2010.