GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. For most people in rural western Colorado, the prospect of having a heart attack is a scary thought. Hospitals in the region, while offering quality care, are singularly ...

Patient flow in the cath suite generally has followed predictable patterns that are evidenced in many procedure suites and surgery centers. There is a waiting room easily available upon patient ...

PHOENIX — Hospital group Abrazo Health announced Thursday the completed renovation of two catheterization (“cath”) labs at its West Valley campus that will improve both “patient outcomes and ...

Nearly one year ago, more than 100 heart patients at Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital were told their coronary stent surgeries may not have been needed.Hospital officials identified the doctors who ...

Cardiac catheterization labs have been gaining steam as an outpatient venture, as more cardiovascular procedures migrate to the ASC setting. Cardiac catheterization labs allow cardiologists to perform ...

Patient safety checklists, long a mainstay in surgical operating rooms, still are inconsistently designed and unevenly applied among cardiac catheterization labs. Yet a paper published in the January ...

AltiX AI.i edition of Mac-Lab, CardioLab and ComboLab can enhance efficiency and precision care for multiple types of cardiac procedures CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) today ...

ATLANTA, GA — Transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR) can be performed in a cath lab rather than a hybrid operating room, with substantial cost savings and no price in terms of worse outcomes [1 ...

March 23, 2010 (Atlanta, Georgia) — An unexplained bias against sending women to the cath lab may be the reason women are about twice as likely as men to die within a month of an MI, a study from the ...

US cardiac catheterization laboratories are throwing out a lot of paper and plastic waste that could otherwise be recycled, a single center’s experience suggests, indicating that there’s a big ...