Main description:

Cath-Lab Practicals is a concise guide to a range of procedures performed in the catheterisation laboratory.

The book is divided into thirteen chapters. Each technique covered includes step by step instructions on the procedure, indications and contraindications, management, and any likely complications. Topics covered include cath-lab operations, angiography, haemodynamics, vascular access and closure, antiplatelets and anticoagulants. Cath-lab equipment and laboratory safety are also reviewed in detail.

Enhanced by 50 illustrations and information tables, Cath-Lab Practicals is a useful guide for cardiologists and cardiac radiographers, in training and in practice.

Key Points

Concise guide to a range of cath-lab procedures
Step by step instructions for various techniques
Reviews required equipment and lab safety
50 illustrations and information tables

Contents:

Chapter 1 Slippery When Wet: Broken Guidewire, Ruptured Balloon in Cath Lab

Chapter 2 If You Break It - You Own It: Embolization of Cath Lab Hardware

Chapter 3 Interventions for Left to Right Shunts: To Plug or not to Plug? That is the Question

Chapter 4 Delicate Sound of Thunder: Coronary Perforations

Chapter 5 Bark at the Moon: Technical Difficulties in Cath Lab

Chapter 6 Honey I Shrunk the Stent: Issues in Stent Implantation

Chapter 7 Cannulation Blues: Issues with Guide Catheter

Chapter 8 Valvular Interventions: Keep Your Eyes on the Door and your Mind on the Procedure

Chapter 9 Management of Resistant Thrombus: Catastrophe and the Cure

Chapter 10 Complications of Rotablation and its Management

Chapter 11 Extremely Sick Patient: Role of Cardiac Assist Devices

Chapter 12 Complications of Radial Access

Chapter 13 Momentary Lapse of Reason: Mortality in Cath Lab

Index