SOLACI endorses SCAI’s document on Best Practices in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory

scai consenso 2016SOLACI endorses SCAI’s document on Best Practices in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory.

 

This clinical expert consensus statement pertains specially to diagnostic and therapeutic coronary artery procedures.
 
 
It contains:
  • Institutional and Operator qualifications and components of an optimal CCL procedural team,
  • pre procedure best clinical practices with an updated pre-procedure checklist for cardiac catheterization,
  • Intra procedure best practices, including recomended procedural data recording and a sample of a “Time out” pre-procedure chek list,
  • recommended elements of the procedure report,
  • elements for Catheterization Laboratory Governance.
 

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