Nine leading medical societies have issued a call for updated safety standards in fluoroscopy laboratories, where clinicians ...

Nine leading medical societies are calling for updated safety standards in fluoroscopy laboratories, often called "cath labs, ...

It doesn’t take more than a few days working in the cath lab to recognize many of the risks and physical burdens that will affect you as you move forward in your career. Daily exposure to radiation, a ...

Mortality outcomes for patients undergoing TAVR in France are similar up to 3 years regardless of whether they underwent their procedure in a cath lab or a hybrid operating room (OR), according to new ...

A key capability of the registry is predicting the risk of adverse events during transcatheter-based procedures on pediatric patients. The Catheterization RISk in Pediatrics (CRISP) registry at Joe ...

London, United Kingdom – 1 September 2024: There was no difference in complications in patients who fasted or did not fast before cardiac catheterisation procedures requiring conscious sedation, ...

People who went into cardiac arrest in the cardiac catheterization lab were more likely to survive to hospital discharge than those who had a cardiac arrest in the intensive care unit (ICU), yet less ...

It was feasible to perform intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) insertions in the cardiac intensive care unit (ICU) without transferring patients to the catheterization laboratory, according to Italian ...

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 ...