PANAMA CITY— A local hospital’s doctors and staff showed off an updated cardiac catheterization lab Tuesday, freshly outfitted with new technology that will reduce radiation exposure for patients ...

Is protecting clinicians actually causing harm? Experts call for a rethinking of radiation safety that also tackles the ...

Nine leading medical societies are calling for updated safety standards in fluoroscopy laboratories, often called "cath labs, ...

Operators at one institution were able to decrease their patient radiation substantially over a 12-year period despite, in some cases, minimal technological improvements in the cath lab, according to ...

A newly published consensus statement outlines how cardiac catheterization laboratories can best operate to ensure quality patient care and safety. The document, written by an expert committee of the ...

The Cath Lab equipment, which remained unused for almost one and a half years, has now been put into use at Lumbini Provincial Hospital in Butwal. The Medical Superintendent of the Hospital, Dr.

Catheterization involves threading a tube through a major artery or a person's bladder. It exposes the patient to radiation and contrast dye that can be hard on the kidneys. Rex Hospital Cardiac ...

Mumbai, Jan 05: The cath lab at the BMC-run Nair Hospital in Mumbai Central has become non-operational following a short circuit, disrupting critical cardiac treatments and causing severe ...