2020 Focus on Interventional Cardiology Education through weekly presentations of Hemodynamic Rounds Live with Kern. Recorded zoom lectures can be found at Cath Lab Digest Website
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This site is now being upgraded to make interventional cardiology education even better. I hope you will use the resources and view the links. I welcome your questions and may use them to stimulate discussion among our cath lab directors and experts world wide.
Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FAHA, FACC
Professor of Medicine
Chief of Cardiology. Veterans Administration Long Beach Health Care
University of California, Irvine Medical Center
Email: mkern@uci.edu; mortonkern2007@gmail.com
Words on Vascular Access
Cath It's a RADIAL FIRST world in the cath lab. The recently released 7th edition of the Kern's Cardiac Catheterization Handbook, 2019, updated material includes detailed 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.
The most updated material is the vascular access technique in Chapter 2. Radial artery access has been strongly emphasized. as the default approach The newest femoral vascular closure devices are briefly presented. The most recent addition to the radial approach is the use of the distal transradial access method. (Cath Lab Digest June 2019, "A Light Bulb Goes On – My First Use of the Distal Radial Artery for the Left Arm Approach".
The most updated material is the vascular access technique in Chapter 2. Radial artery access has been strongly emphasized. as the default approach The newest femoral vascular closure devices are briefly presented. The most recent addition to the radial approach is the use of the distal transradial access method. (Cath Lab Digest June 2019, "A Light Bulb Goes On – My First Use of the Distal Radial Artery for the Left Arm Approach".
