Sentences with phrase «coronary angiogram»

The study included 22,917 patients from 19 medical centers in Ontario, Canada, who received a diagnosis of stable coronary artery disease following coronary angiogram for chest pain (chronic stable angina) between Oct. 1, 2008, and Sept. 30, 2013.

During a coronary angiogram — performed in more than 1 million people in the United States each year — an interventional cardiologist examines the heart's arteries using miniscule medical equipment threaded to the heart through a catheter placed in an artery in the groin or arm.

Patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing coronary angiogram, a procedure used to assess blockages in the heart's arteries, had a significantly lower risk of major bleeding and death if their interventional cardiologist accessed the heart through an artery in the arm rather than the groin, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session.

My patient was told that he had a score of 710 — a high calcium score — and his physician had told him that he would need to undergo a coronary angiogram, a roadmap movie of the coronary anatomy, as soon as possible.

Because coronary angiograms involve inserting a catheter (a thin tube) through an artery in the leg up to the heart, the procedure is usually performed in a hospital, in a cardiac catheterization lab (commonly called a «cath» lab).

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An angiogram showed that one coronary artery was more than 90 percent blocked and he needed a bypass.

These women also reported on their coronary health, indicating whether they had an angiogram that confirmed CHD - related chest pain, a heart attack, or cardiovascular procedures such as angioplasty, coronary artery bypass graft surgery or stents.

Doctors can detect coronary microvascular syndrome if they perform a special type of angiogram, says Dr. Bairey Merz, who is working to develop new noninvasive tests for the syndrome.

Angiograms test for blockages in the coronary arteries in addition to other cardiovascular ailments.

«When we do angiograms of the arteries [in people with broken heart syndrome], there isn't any obstruction of the coronary arteries,» says Nieca Goldberg, MD, the director of the Women's Heart Center at New York University Langone Medical Center.

Diagnostic tests such as an EKG, Thallium Stress Test, Stress Echo or Angiogram are used by cardiologists to determine the type of angina present and the severity of the coronary heart disease.

Multiple Computer Systems Hemodynamic / Cardiac Monitoring CVVHD / PD / Ventilators Acute Myocardial Infarction Post - angiogram / interventions Carotid, Coronary and Peripheral Stents Arterial / Venous Sheath Management Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Conscious Sedation in Tran Esophageal Echocardiograms Direct - Current Cardioversions Post - Interventional Radiology Neurology / Neuro / Vascular / Thoracic, and Abdominal Surgery Pre / Post Renal Transplants Post-op CABG / LVAD's Post Cardiac Arrest PACU of General Anesthesia Patients for Cath Lab

Setup and monitor Cardiac stress tests, treadmill, exercise MUGA scans, stress echocardiograms, Cardiac PET scans to diagnose ischemia and viability, and patient preparation for coronary CT angiograms.

• Direct care of patients with myocardial infarction and assist in resuscitation / code blue situations • Oversee care of pre and post CABG (coronary artery bypass graft), pre and post cardiac cath, Angiogram / Angioplasty, AICD, PPM, acute stroke, and post-op peripheral vascular surgery patients • Perform EKG and telemetry monitoring, interpret results, and intervene as needed • Collaborates with physicians and social workers regarding discharge planning and follow up care plans • Educate patients and families about healthy living including smoking cessation, alcohol cessation, etc. • Set age - appropriate short - term and long term goals in care planning • Administer intravenous drugs, drips, and combinations drugs using 5 rights and titration of vasoactive drugs with the use of IV infusion pump