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Standards scale back restrictions on cath labs without backup

SCAI SmartBrief | May 15, 2012

An updated cath lab consensus document from SCAI and the American College of Cardiology Foundation sets new clinical care standards. The document lifts most restrictions on cath labs that lack on-site surgical backup, as well as case volume criteria that incoming SCAI Vice President Dr. Charles Chambers called "well-meaning but potentially arbitrary and not supported." BeckersHospitalReview.com (05/09) MedPage Today (free registration) (05/09)


FAME II supports FFR-guided stenting over meds for ischemia

SCAI SmartBrief | May 22, 2012

Drug-eluting or bare-metal? Publications fuel discussion of stents

SCAI SmartBrief | May 01, 2012

SCAI, ACCF release AUC for diagnostic catheterization

SCAI SmartBrief | May 15, 2012

Judge dismisses cardiologist's lawsuit against Md. hospital

SCAI SmartBrief | May 01, 2012

Renal denervation takes aim at hard-to-treat hypertension

SCAI SmartBrief | May 29, 2012

Doctors remove foot-long blood clot without open-heart surgery

SCAI SmartBrief | May 29, 2012

Physician discusses consensus document on PCI for multivessel CAD

SCAI SmartBrief | May 08, 2012

Survey documents physicians' salaries, feelings about their careers

SCAI SmartBrief | May 01, 2012

CMS issues final TAVR reimbursement guidelines

SCAI SmartBrief | May 08, 2012


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