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  1. Cardiac Catheterization - American Heart Association

    Feb 21, 2025 · The procedure is done in a cath lab at a hospital or medical clinic. Before the procedure, a nurse will put an IV line into a vein in your arm so you can get medication to help you relax.

  2. Electrophysiology Studies | American Heart Association

    Oct 21, 2024 · You may hear this room called the electrophysiology laboratory, or EP lab. Some call it the catheterization laboratory (cath lab). During the test: A nurse will put an IV in your arm. You’ll get …

  3. Cardiovascular Media Library. Watch. Learn. Live.

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  4. Doctors and nurses do these tests at a hospital or clinic with special equipment in a room called the electrophysiology lab, or EP lab. Sometimes, it’s also called the catheterization lab (cath lab).

  5. Heart Attack Treatment - American Heart Association

    Feb 27, 2025 · If you are at a hospital able to perform PCI, you would be sent to an area called a “cath lab.” There, an angiogram can assess blood flow to your heart and show how well your heart is …

  6. Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Management of the Comatose …

    Aug 8, 2024 · Cardiac catheterization laboratory management of the comatose adult patient with an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

  7. Nov 15, 2014 · First living human cardiac catheterization was performed in 1929 by Dr. Werner Forssmann at age 25 and shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine Proper cardiac diagnosis and …

  8. Cardiac Catheterizations for Heart Defects

    Sep 19, 2023 · A cardiac catheterization is a procedure to treat heart defects. A doctor will use a thin plastic spaghetti-like tube or catheter that goes to the heart from blood vessels in the leg or neck, …

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  10. Introduction: Get With The Guidelines®- Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is the latest evidence-based quality improvement program for chest pain, ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), and non-ST …