Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory

About the Cath Lab

Last year, we performed 7,109 diagnostic cardiac catheterization procedures and more than 1,700 interventional procedures.

Our basic interventions can range from the elective percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) to the emergent PTCA and/or stent. In addition, we also perform many other diagnostic and interventional procedures: right and left heart catheterizations, right ventricle biopsies, atrial septal defect/patent foramen ovale closures, septal ablations, constriction/restriction drug studies, coronary spasm studies, mitral and aortic valvuloplasties, rotational and directional athrectomy, pulmonary artery angioplasty and stenting, IABP insertion, intravascular ultrasound, as well as diagnostic/interventional congenital catheterizations.

We perform an average of 140 diagnostic angiogram cases per week, with an average of 30 percent proceeding to intervention.

Staff

• 12 Interventional Cardiologists
• 6 Diagnostic Cardiologists
• 4 Pediatric Cardiologists
• 1 Radiologist
• 5 Regional

• 39 RNs
• 34 Technical
• 14 Research
• 6 Office