Notes from the Editor's Corner of Cath Lab Digest: - Softcover

Kern MD, Morton J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1453711031 ISBN 13: 9781453711033

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010

Synopsis

This book is a collection of the Editor's Corner of the Cath Lab Digest magazine. The 54 topics cover 2006 to July 2010, and are listed by date and by major categories of cath lab activity. These topics included cath lab operations, angiography, hemodyanmics and FFR, PCI and STEMI techniques, Vascular access and closure, antiplatelets and anticoagulants, and miscellaneous cath lab topics. These will be of most interest to those working in the cath labs including nurses, technicians and physicians (both those in training and all levels of those in practice).

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About the Author

Morton J. Kern, M.D. FSCAI, FAHA, FACC Chief Cardiology, Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital Associate Chief, Division of Cardiology Professor of Medicine University California, Irvine Dr. Kern is currently Professor of Medicine, Chief of Cardiology at the Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital and Associate Chief, Division of Cardiology, University California Irvine. Dr. Kern, formerly Professor of Medicine and Director of the prestigious JG Mudd Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at St. Louis University continues to actively perform and teach cardiac catheterization and percutaneous coronary interventions. Dr. Kern is ABIM Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases and Interventional Cardiology and has serves on many national and international cardiovascular societies. He is an instructor for the ACCF/SCAI Interventional Cardiology Board Review program and other National Scientific Symposia. In addition to his research interests in coronary angioplasty and stenting, intravascular physiology, intravascular ultrasound and evaluation of cardiovascular hemodynamics, he is the author of several major textbooks, one of which is the leading book on cardiac catheterization, entitled "The Cardiac Catheterization Handbook", which is used nationally and internationally to train physicians in the subject. Dr. Kern is a past president of the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Intervention, and holds fellowships in the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1453711031
• ISBN 13: 9781453711033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192