Fast Facts for the Cath Lab Nurse / Edition 1

by Brenda McCulloch RN, MSN, RCIS

Overview

This quick-access resource delivers a practical orientation for the cath lab. For nurses with a background in cardiac care or intensive care, the cath lab is replete with new challenges and learning opportunities. It is an increasingly complex environment with increasingly challenging procedures. Most effectively run by an interdisciplinary team, all healthcare providers in the cath lab uphold different roles to contribute to patient care and achieve successful procedural outcomes.

Fast Facts for the Cath Lab Nurse clearly presents the role of the nurse in the cath lab and how to assist with basic and advanced cath lab procedures. Written in a simple, easy-to-read format with streamlined, bulleted information, this orientation guide breaks down procedures and provides essential information for each step. Chapters cover interpreting pressure waveforms, understanding various calculations, identifying angiographic images, and more competently providing care to patients in the peri-procedural period.

Key Features

• Provides tables, examples of common hemodynamic calculations, images of pressure waveforms and angiogram
• Begins each chapter with key learning objectives
• Provides a quick anatomy review
• Assists with Registered Cardiovascular invasive Specialist (RCIS) certification

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826134622
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	12/13/2018
Series:	Fast Facts
Pages:	199
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Brenda Kirkpatrick McCulloch, RN, MSN, RCIS, has been a cardiovascular clinical nurse specialist, supporting the cardiovascular service line at Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, California, for the past 15 years.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. The Cath Lab Environment

2. Working in an X-Ray Environment

3. About Contrast Media

4. Procedural Patient Preparation

5. Arterial Access

6. Hemostasis and Vascular Closure Devices

7. Cath Lab Hemodynamics: Waveforms, Pressures, and Calculations to Know

8. Right and Left Heart Catheterization

9. Angiography

10. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

11. Adjunctive Modalities

12. Procedural Complications

13. Peripheral Angiography and Intervention

14. Structural Heart Procedures

15. Emergency Care in the Cath Lab

Bibliography

Index

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Gina Oliver, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, CNE (University of Missouri)
Description: This is a handbook on the basics of the cardiac catheterization laboratory. It is part of the Fast Facts Series, which covers topics in an abbreviated fashion, concentrating on essential initial information.
Purpose: The purpose is to help nurses learn the essential facts of working in a cardiac cath lab.
Audience: Nurses new to the cardiac catheterization lab will enjoy this book as a learning experience as well as a quick reference between procedures. The author is well established in the field and gives new nurses in the cardiac cath lab the benefit of her knowledge about what it takes to work in this field.
Features: The book presents the information in a logical format and provides the basic facts that a cardiac cath lab nurse needs to know. The data are bulleted to allow quick location of content. Fast facts are provided at the end of each chapter to solidify key points.
Assessment: This handbook has the basic facts necessary for a cardiac cath nurse. The content is not extensive, although the book provides the essential knowledge needed by a nurse new to this area of healthcare.

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