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Interventional Catheterization

Under the direction of Medical Director John F. Rhodes, M.D.,  the Pediatric and Adult Catheterization Laboratory performs diagnostic, interventional, and electrophysiology catheterizations.   Procedures generally fall into either diagnostic or interventional cardiac catheterization studies. We serve children from newborn to 18 years old.

  Therapeutic treatments include:

• Coil Occlusion Procedure
• Atrial Septal Defect Closure
• Blade and Balloon Septostomy
• Angioplasty
• Valvuloplasty
• Stent Implantation
• Ventricular Septal Defect Closure
  

Patients are admitted to the clinical area as outpatients, “same day catheterizations,” or as inpatients. They may receive general anesthesia or conscious sedation. After the procedure and being cleared from the Hospital Conscious Sedation protocol, patients may be transferred to an inpatient ward, an observation unit or discharged home. Patients who have undergone general anesthesia are transferred to the recovery unit.

 

Procedures are scheduled in the Pediatric and Adult Catheterization Laboratory from Monday through Friday, 7:00 am to 3:30 pm. The lab is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for emergency procedures.  

Catheterization lab waiting room	Catheterization equipment	Catherization imaging lab