Nine leading medical societies are calling for updated safety standards in fluoroscopy laboratories, often called "cath labs, ...

Nine leading medical societies have issued a call for updated safety standards in fluoroscopy laboratories, where clinicians ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Healthcare workers in cardiac catheterization labs may have higher odds than workers elsewhere for health problems including cataracts, skin lesions, cancers and orthopedic illness. Estimated exposure ...

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 ...