Rotations
Cath
Rotations · Cath · Overview
Report Time
7:00 AM
When cases begin at 7. A later first case moves it.
Attire
Sea-green scrubs
UTMCK procedural scrubs in the rooms; lead as required.
Day End
Around 5 PM
Traditionally. Fellows stay to help when cases run late.
Daily flow
Handoff to handoff.
- 1Before first caseBoard, patient, chart, bedside, indication, H&P status, consent, and the strategy with the attending.
- 2During casesParticipate at the level your experience allows: access, catheter manipulation, angiography, RHC and hemodynamics, interpretation and treatment discussion.
- 3Between casesDocumentation, communicating findings, reassessing post-procedure patients, preparing the next one, updating orders.
- 4End of dayProcedure reports finished no later than end of day. Post-cath orders, handoffs, follow-up and anything unresolved.
Today in the lab
- Stay with one attending and one room for the day where the schedule allows.
The live cath board: room assignments, the first case time, and add-on or urgent cases. UTKardio holds no feed from the lab board, so none of it can be shown here until there is one.
Answered by: Program
First day in the lab
- The cath lab is on the 2nd floor — learn the secure entry process.
- Get fitted for lead. The techs are key operational partners.
- Confirm access to the cath reporting and documentation systems and to the procedure log.
- Learn where the radial and femoral supplies, ultrasound, sheaths, catheters and hemostasis devices are stored.
- Read the current attendings and their preference profiles.
Escalate immediately
- Coronary dissection or perforation
- Shock
- Tamponade
- Stroke
- Arrhythmia
- Access-site hemorrhage
Still needed from the program
Listed rather than guessed. These are the facts this page cannot answer.
- The weekHow a Cath week actually runs: which days differ, weekend coverage, and whether the rotation holds any call. The specification states the day — report at 7 when cases begin at 7, traditionally finishing around 5 — and nothing about the week, so no coverage chart is drawn.
- Cath boardThe live cath board: room assignments, the first case time, and add-on or urgent cases. There is no feed from the lab board, and §13 names the inventory or board system as NEED DETAILS.
- Charge RNHow the charge RN is reached, and whether the role is published anywhere a schedule could read. §13 asks for it on the Overview; no source UTKardio holds carries it.
- Cath directorThe current Cath rotation director, if it is not the value in the 2026 orientation material. §16 names Dr R. Baljepally from that material; it is not written here because a rotation director is a role the program owns rather than a fact this file should assert.
- Door codeThe Cath Lab door code. The door is registered and no digits have been entered — the readout says so rather than showing a mask. Entered with npm run db:access-code, never committed.
Last updated 2026-09-19 · Program, Cath Work Guide specification, 2026-09-19
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