How to Use cardiac catheterization in a Sentence

cardiac catheterization

noun
  • For decades, cardiac catheterization has spared many the trauma of open heart surgery.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2021
  • What is a cardiac catheterization?
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Martinez underwent a cardiac catheterization this year after a heart scare.
    — Nick Schwartz, For The Win, 30 Oct. 2019
  • My procedure in the cardiac catheterization lab was made very stress-free by the 15 medical staff members caring for me.
    — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Soon after, two nurses who normally worked in the cardiac catheterization lab walked into the unit to offer their assistance.
    — Sheri Fink, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2020
  • That can mean delaying cardiac catheterization or the removal of cancerous tumors.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Another 27 minutes passed until Armstrong was taken to the cardiac catheterization lab to drain the blood from the sac.
    — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 23 July 2019
  • The cardiac catheterization lab uses diagnostic imaging equipment to examine and treat heart disease.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 3 May 2021
  • But that hospital, capable of doing cardiac catheterization, was on diversion.
    — John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2019
  • So Hyde was delighted to hear Martinez planned to be back on the job Friday, four days after undergoing a cardiac catheterization.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
  • So his doctors eventually resorted to using cardiac catheterization, which involved threading a catheter through his blood vessels near his heart to dissolve the blood clot from the inside, Tapadia said.
    — Sonia Heng, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Less than an hour later, I was rushed by helicopter to a hospital with a cardiac catheterization lab, where doctors can identify potential blockages and possibly reopen a clogged artery.
    — Ken Budd, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023
  • That’s why when patients rush to the hospital after a heart attack, medical experts immediately open the arteries using cardiac catheterization or a balloon, or stint.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2022
  • Many of these patients need an immediate procedure and there is no time for the PCR test and in most cases not even a rapid test to be back in time before rushing off to the cardiac catheterization lab.
    — Todd S. Purdum, STAT, 22 Dec. 2020
  • After the helicopter carrying Simpson landed on the roof of Memorial Hermann, she was rushed to the cardiac catheterization lab.
    — Karin Brulliard, chicagotribune.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • At the hospital, doctors found that Campos needed a cardiac catheterization, a minimally invasive procedure to find blockages in the heart and then remove them.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The patient receives medications to relieve pain and anxiety, but remains awake throughout, lying on a table in a room called the cardiac catheterization laboratory.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The flooding impacted a corridor used to take patients from the emergency department to an elevator that goes to the cardiac catheterization lab and operating rooms on different floors.
    — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Location Pacemaker surgery takes place in an operating room or cardiac catheterization lab of a hospital or specialized surgical center.
    — Jennifer Whitlock, Rn, Msn, Fn, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Researchers only studied patients who received a cardiac catheterization, a minimally invasive procedure commonly done to search for blockages in the heart's arteries.
    — Marshall Cohen, CNN, 9 July 2020
  • The medical team subsequently discovered an 80 percent artery blockage — this time caused by cholesterol — and inserted another stent in her heart to open the blockage after she was rushed to the cardiac catheterization lab.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Previously, residents in and around Cleveland, Texas, had to travel 30 to 40 minutes or further for just about any type of cardiac catheterization procedure.
    — Sponsored Content With Emergency Hospital Systems, Houston Chronicle, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Though the show's cast announcement describes him as a trauma nurse, Cho now works in a interventional radiology and cardiac catheterization lab at an Indianapolis hospital.
    — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Sep. 2024
  • According to a release sent Tuesday evening, the change begins Wednesday and affects the hospital’s surgical services, the gastroenterology lab and the cardiac catheterization lab.
    — al, 31 Dec. 2020
  • The center’s specialists will include physicians with expertise in heart failure, electrophysiology, cardiac catheterization and structural heart problems.
    — Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Hartaj Girn, at the time a senior cardiology fellow at USC, moved quickly, preparing for a potentially life-saving trip to the cardiac catheterization lab.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2021
  • While elective procedures like cataract removal and cardiac catheterization can often be medically necessary, there is a yawning gray zone in which these procedures get done for tenuous indications—as my former colleagues illustrated.
    — Danielle Ofri, Slate Magazine, 2 Aug. 2017
  • This ultimately resulted in Champion undergoing a cardiac catheterization.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Allegheny General Hospital has completed a $19 million expansion and renovation of its cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology labs, a major upgrade officials say will improve care and access for heart patients across western Pennsylvania.
    — Gabby Sartori, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • According to the hospital, Orlando Health Melbourne Hospital became the first facility within the Orlando Health system to perform an EVAR procedure inside a cardiac catheterization lab rather than a traditional operating room.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 7 June 2026

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