The cardiac catheterization lab at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's has undergone a massive upgrade. With a fourth procedure room and a radial recovery lounge, the lab has grown its capacity ...

The heart is an intricate plumbing system of valves, pumps and pipelike vessels which control the flow of blood throughout the body, and the doctors who specialize in its function, diagnosis and ...

Under full anesthesia, a small metallic clip is threaded from a patient's thigh to his or her heart through a plastic tube. The clip is then attached to a valve of the heart, and left there. This ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. In March, new technology at the Wisconsin Heart Hospital in ...

CMS proposed changing the definition of surgery to account for “surgery-like” procedures in the 2019 proposed payment rule for ASCs and hospital outpatient departments, which could add cardiac ...

CMS is proposing to add 12 cardiac catheterization procedures to its coverage list for ambulatory surgical centers (ASC) as the agency looks to accelerate a shift to the lower-cost settings. The ...

Cardiac Catheterization Care As pediatric cardiac catheterization procedures become more advanced, the need to anticipate which children will require intensive care ...

Folks undergoing cardiac catheterization procedures to diagnose heart problems may be able to safely skip the traditional pre-op fasting that's now the norm, new research shows. "Just as our ...

The cardiac catheterization lab at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's has undergone a massive upgrade. Adding a fourth procedure room and a radial recovery lounge, the lab has grown its capacity ...

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Routine catheterization during minor gynecologic surgeries is associated with more than double the rate of UTIs compared with procedures without catheterization. Among 762 patients undergoing minor ...