Dr. Cindy Grines answers the question: 'What Is A Cardiac Catheterization?' — -- Question: What is a cardiac catheterization, what does it show my doctor, and what are the dangers? Answer: ...

Dr. Nissen answers the question: 'When Do I Do A Cardiac Catheterization?' — -- Question: When is it necessary to do an actual cardiac catheterization during the diagnosis of a heart attack?

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 ...

People with heart failure often need a test called right heart catheterization, where a tube is inserted into the heart to ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients undergoing cardiac catheterization are generally instructed to follow nothing by mouth, or NPO, before ...

Background: The optimal population rate of cardiac catheterization is unknown. One potential way to determine it would be to examine whether there is a population rate beyond which the yield of ...

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.

There was no difference in complications in patients who fasted or did not fast before cardiac catheterization procedures requiring conscious sedation, according to late-breaking research presented in ...

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).

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 ...

Bulletin: ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 2 to 4 inches. * WHERE...In New ...