Background Fort Hamilton Hospital (FHH) successfully implemented Ultrafiltration (UF) in the inpatient and outpatient settings. In June 2009, FHH began using UF in the step-down unit and in December 2011 with outpatients in the Cardiac Cath Lab (CCL). The goal was to relieve patient symptoms ...
Methods: Outpatient combination procedures performed in the pediatric cardiac cath lab from 2013 - 2016 were matched to a control population of two or three similar single outpatient procedures from 2009 - 2016 for patients of similar age and cardiac anatomy. Procedure duration, recovery duration, ...
being able to manipulate a catheter and do some basic interventional work in the Cath Lab, spending an "all nighter" in the cardiovascular ICU managing very ill postop cardiac surgical patients, and the management of a large inpatient cardiology ward all take a great deal of time, energy, an...
cath lab waiting list 6%, referral to specialist clinic 9%.Ongoing are surveys of satisfaction with the power forms (cardiologists) and with the summary reports (GPs).ConclusionThis is the first report of powerform development for entry of routinely collected cardiac outpatient data into the hospi...