On average, the career of an interventional cardiologist will range from 35 to 40 years. In a rough calculation, say you spend 30 hours a week in the cath lab. That translates to more than 1,500 hours ...

SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital announces construction has started in one of its cardiac catheterization laboratories ...

Be transported directly to the cath lab (23.3% versus 5.3%) Spend less time between hospital arrival and cath lab arrival (median 17 versus 28 min) Have shorter door-to-device time (40 versus 52 min) ...

Improving safety for everyone who works in a cath lab can only be achieved if professional societies come together and oversee the creation of nationally recognized regulations for occupational health ...

Abudayyeh, I., et al. (2025) Occupational Health Hazards in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory: Results of the 2023 SCAI Survey.

Karing Hearts succeeded in gaining a certificate of need for a standalone cath lab in a hearing on Sept. 28, before Tennessee’s Health Facilities Commission (HFC).

The hospital has opened its new cardiac catheterization lab that is equipped with state-of-the-art technology, including the Siemens Artis Q Interventional Angiography System, and will then ...

Cath lab personnel wear lead aprons, weighing 15 to 20 pounds, to protect themselves from radiation exposure. But the weight of wearing the protective equipment places them at high risk of ...

WHAT TO KNOW Plainview Hospital has opened a $19 million cardiac catheterization lab that allows it to deliver quick and potentially life-saving treatment for heart attacks and other cardiac ailment.

The new cath lab and inpatient unit will harden the site’s footprint in the neighborhood, filling a niche left by St. Vincent’s Medical Center, which occupied the same building and closed in 2010.