Survey data will be used in advocacy efforts with employers and policymakers to advance key safety initiatives.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A new survey from the Healthy Cath Lab Study Group highlights increased risk for health problems among cardiac ...

WASHINGTON—Healthcare professionals performing minimally invasive procedures in fluoroscopy laboratories, often called “cath labs,” should no longer have to accept preventable radiation exposure and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An initiative reduced patient and cath lab staff exposure to procedural radiation during PCI. Air kerma may be a ...

Multimodality imaging in the cardiac catheterization lab continues to develop with rapid advancements in the use of intracardiac echocardiography, 3D and multidetector computed tomography with ...

Operators at one institution were able to decrease their patient radiation substantially over a 12-year period despite, in some cases, minimal technological improvements in the cath lab, according to ...

Is the equipment designed to protect healthcare workers in cath labs doing more harm than good? For years, concerns about clinicians working in fluoroscopy labs have centered on the long-term dangers ...

Researchers led by Samir R. Kapadia, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH), compared patients at their institution who underwent diagnostic catheterization (n = 2,838) or PCI (n = 209) in 2012 ...

WASHINGTON—Nine leading medical societies are calling for updated safety standards in fluoroscopy laboratories, often called “cath labs,” where clinicians performing minimally invasive procedures face ...

HEARTROID PROJECT and the TTDD lab at MIT today announced a creative partnership. HEARTROID ® platform, a catheter-based simulator, will participate in TTDD lab's effort of validating device ...