During procedures in the laboratory, a cardiac cath lab nurse will assist the doctor in any way needed. In many cases, patients will be awake for the procedures. For this reason, a great deal of the nurse's job may be to calm patients and assure them that everything is going okay. Th...
Patients enter the cath lab, and then as though it were a black box, emerge with a band aide on the femoral puncture site and a report in the chart. Many of our colleagues, even our colleagues in noninvasive cardiology, are mystified by what happens inside the catheterization laboratory. ...
Cardiac catheterization – Cardiac (heart) catheterization is also known as cardiac ―cath‖ or coronary angiography. During this test the doctor puts a thin plastic tube into a blood vessel in your leg or arm and moves it up to your heart. Then the doctor injects a fluid through the tube...
Depending on the facility, a cath lab technician may also be known as a cardiac catheterization technologist or a cardiovascular technician. The technicians prepare patients for procedures, explain what will happen during tests and procedures, and provide a little reassurance if patients are nervous or...
Let your kids live normal lives, because if something happens to my son tomorrow, I don't want to say that he wasn't happy while he was here. By anon87003 — On May 27, 2010 My son was born with Dextrocardia. The doctors say everything is perfect and everything else is normal....
My son has dextrocardia too, though he had a lot of other heart conditions that required several surgeries. From what I know about mirror image dextrocardia, there are a couple of complications you may look for. First, he should have an emergency bracelet. If your son ever needed emergency ...
clear evidence of a stroke in the left frontal lobe. It was later determined that the cause may have been a PFO (small hole between the two heart chambers). This is called a cryptogenic stroke (unknown cause, which happens in 40% of stroke victims). As a ultra-endurance athlete with no...
happens to me. Hmm, is memory loss due to vagus nerve? By anon152020 — On Feb 12, 2011 My son has been diagnoses with vasovagal syndrome, but the diagnosis does not really fit. His bp and hr do not drop, but go quite high during exercise. He had an exercise stress test and ...
"Commotio cordis happens when a person receives a sudden, sharp blow to the chest and it causes them to go into a ventricular arrhythmia," Baginski says. "It causes a temporary interruption of the normal electrical pathway of theheartand you go into cardiac arrest. Corrado notes that Hamlin...
An IPTE, defined as the development of new or increasing thrombus, abrupt vessel closure, no reflow, slow reflow, or distal embolization at any time during the procedure, occurred in 121 patients (3.5%).Patients with IPTE had higher in-hospital, 30-day, and 1-year major adverse cardiac ...