All jokes aside, my one week on Cath has been a fascinating experience. The Cath lab is where percutaneous (meaning through the skin, but functionally through blood vessels ) procedures take place, and include valve replacements, thrombectomies (removal of blood clots), pericardiocenteses (removal of Fluid from the sac around the heart) and, yes coronary and peripheral angiography (where we look for blockages in the arteries around the heart and in the limbs and/or intervene on them to restore blood flow.) It really is a field that is on the cutting edge of new technology, and it’s amazing to me how quickly the Interventional Cardiologists I’m training under adopt and perfect new approaches!
(But for real though. The only made up name is monster truck.)
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