nope, never one right off the table, but within 2 hours also. Scares you to death when they leave though, you have visions of the fresh clot blowing and the pt bleeding to death. I still cant picture...
We also have to live 30 mins of the hospital to take call. WE take call every 2 weeks, either the weekend or the mon-thurs run. We have 5 interventionalists/ 1 EP / 12 invasive cardiologists. They all...
We have 2 labs: lab A is older equipment(Seimen's) open from 730- 17:30. We do up to 17 cardiac cath cases , either femerol or radial in there. We have 3 RN's and the cardiologist (we are not a...
Hi there nursing 20 yrs CCU/ICU background, now work cath lab for 5 yrs. I love it, great job, BUT highly stressful and competitive with high turnover rate, always vacancies. we have 2 labs 17-20...
Hi There, I work in a cath lab with 2 labs, do about 17 -20 caths a day and 4-6 angioplasties between the 2 labs. I love my job and have been there about 5 yrs.. It is intriguing, intense, fun,...
Oh, you brought tears to my eyes. Thankfully you have been able to come back and I truly believe you are in the field you were meant to be in ( medical). I hope we can all learn from your post. I...
I work in the cath lab\l love my job. I have a conundrum. It has been suggested by one of our Docs that I have a right heart cath to r/o pulmonary hypertension ( rvsp 47) some TR no RVH. He says he...