No restriction of oral food intake prior to nonemergent cardiac catheterization is as safe as the current traditional NPO [nothing by mouth] strategy, results from a large, single-center, randomized ...

Background: The optimal population rate of cardiac catheterization is unknown. One potential way to determine it would be to examine whether there is a population rate beyond which the yield of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Not fasting before cardiac catheterization procedures with conscious sedation was just as safe as fasting.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients undergoing cardiac catheterization are generally instructed to follow nothing by mouth, or NPO, before ...

Holding patients NPO before cardiac catheterization procedures was not safer but did come with costs, a randomized trial showed. No restrictions on oral intake didn't increase the risk of the primary ...

Folks undergoing cardiac catheterization procedures to diagnose heart problems may be able to safely skip the traditional pre-op fasting that's now the norm, new research shows. "Just as our ...

George M. Pedersen of Southboro is an active, 73-year-old semi-retired manufacturer's representative who enjoys snorkeling and traveling. He was somewhat surprised two years ago when his cardiologist ...

Samaritan Medical Center has begun construction on a $12 million cardiac catheterization lab, the first of its kind in the ...

from left to right: Katherine Thornton, President, Reading Hospital Foundation; Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz, Pennsylvania State Representative; Michael Stern, Tower Health President and COO; P. Sue ...