Emergency Resuscitation Measures
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is the leading cause of cardiovascular death and remains an important public health issue. The definition of SCD includes death from natural…
Preclinical Laboratory Functions
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Although innovators brainstorm ideas for novel therapies often while working in the clinical setting, these ideas see the earliest translation into reality in the preclinical laboratory….
Innovation and Interventional Cardiology: Looking Back, Thinking Ahead
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The field of interventional cardiology has been driven by technical innovation. In a remarkable progression of needs identification, invention, testing, and refinement, innovators have developed nonsurgical…
Medical Simulation in Interventional Cardiology
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Medical simulation comprises the artificial representation of a real-world medical environment with sufficient realism to facilitate learning through immersion, reflection, feedback, and practice without the risks…
Reading Clinical Trials
INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY AND CLINICAL TRIALS Print Section Listen On September 16, 1977, Andreas Gruentzig performed the first coronary angioplasty on a 38-year-old businessman with unstable angina and a discrete proximal…
Web-Based Learning
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Remarkable advances are regularly made in the science, clinical practice, and procedural applications of interventional cardiology, challenging the interventional cardiologist to systematically integrate new knowledge into…
Publishing Interventional Cardiology Research
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen In my 10 years as editor-in-chief of JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, we have selected about 1500 original research articles for publication. In recent years, the acceptance rate…
Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy for Patients with Stable Ischemic Heart Disease
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) is an intrinsic part of management of patients with stable ischemic heart disease (SIHD) whether or not revascularization is performed. GDMT for…
Emergency Surgery Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Print Section Listen As a result of significant technologic improvements over the past 30 years, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has become an increasingly safe and effective procedure. Along…
Coronary Artery Perforation
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen In the stent era, coronary artery perforation (CAP) is the most serious complication and a leading cause of death from percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Although preventable…
