Dr. Cindy Grines answers the question: 'What Is A Cardiac Catheterization?' — -- Question: I'm allergic to radiocontrast dye and/or iodine and/or shellfish. can I get a catheterization? Answer: ...

Dr. Cindy Grines answers the question: 'Rest After Cardiac Catheterization?' — -- Question: How long should I rest after a cardiac catheterization? Answer: Well, the recovery period after cardiac ...

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 ...

No restriction of oral food intake prior to nonemergent cardiac catheterization is as safe as the current traditional NPO [nothing by mouth] strategy, results from a large, single-center, randomized ...

Cardiac catheterization is a radiological procedure for both diagnosis and treatment of heart conditions. It involves the insertion of a long thin flexible tube called catheter a vein or an artery to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Not fasting before cardiac catheterization procedures with conscious sedation was just as safe as fasting.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health will open a new cardiac catheterization lab at Lenox Health Greenwich Village, an ASC and satellite emergency department in New York City. According to an ...

Anthony A. Bavry, M.D., M.P.H. Intensive care unit patients who required acute renal replacement therapy were randomized to catheterization in the jugular vein (n = 375) or the femoral vein (n = 375).

Peterson hopes Ivy’s adoption mirrors that of the catheter system he developed to access the brain via the radial artery.