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A reference, never a protocol. The pressures, formulas and ranges below are general teaching values framed for recall in the lab — they are not autonomous treatment triggers, and §11 asks that they stay marked as teaching ranges until cath faculty verify them. No local ACT, heparin, TR Band or medication protocol appears here, because those are institutional and have to come from pharmacy and from the lab.
Today
Resolved live from the schedule.
Shown on Overview, off the schedule’s own late-fellow rota.
Normal pressures
Right-sided filling pressure. Read with ventilation, TR and RV function.
Systolic, and the end-diastolic pressure.
Systolic, diastolic, mean, and the waveform morphology.
Estimates left atrial pressure. Confirm a true wedge and measure at end expiration.
General teaching ranges — §11 asks that these be marked as such and verified by cath faculty
Cardiac output / index
Thermodilution or Fick — know which one the number came from.
Typical teaching range 2.5–4.0 L/min/m². A trend beats any single value.
General teaching ranges — §11 asks that these be marked as such and verified by cath faculty
SVR / PVR
Distinguishes vasodilatory from vasoconstricted physiology.
Expressed in Wood units. Interpret with mPAP, PCWP and CO together.
General teaching ranges — §11 asks that these be marked as such and verified by cath faculty
Access checklist
The local ACT and heparin targets by procedure.
Answered by: Program
The local closure and TR Band algorithm.
Answered by: Program
Radial complications
Recognize, then escalate.
Femoral complications
Warning signs, then escalate.
Contrast / kidney
Whether the program wants a local risk-stratification card here.
Answered by: Program
Inpatient is individualized — see Post-Cath Care.
The local post-cath renal monitoring expectation.
Answered by: Program
Anticoagulation
No number here until pharmacy and the lab supply one.
The local ACT and heparin targets, by procedure. §11 marks this NEED VERIFIED LOCAL DETAILS and §13 forbids a local dose that has not come from pharmacy.
Answered by: Program / pharmacy
TR Band
No duration here until the lab supplies the algorithm.
The local TR Band removal and duration algorithm, and how heparin or ACT changes the duration.
Answered by: Program
Catheters & views
The lab’s own stock list — which diagnostic catheters are actually on the shelf here.
Answered by: Program
A visual LAO/RAO and cranial/caudal map, and which segments each view optimizes. §10’s accuracy rule says a diagram has to be reviewed by cath faculty before it is marked verified.
Answered by: Cath faculty
Emergency escalation
Immediate attending activation, every one of them.
Restricted
Shown to fellows and the coordinator only.
Logins
What UTKardio will and will not hold.
- Cerner is an individual clinical login. UTKardio does not store a fellow’s Cerner password and never will.
- UConcall carries schedules and inpatient and procedure billing. No shared credential was supplied, and none should be.
- Any future shared credential lives server-side in restricted resources, behind the same permission check as a door code — see the rule in
AGENTS.md.
Still needed from the program
Listed rather than guessed. These are the facts this page cannot answer.
- Views & cathetersA faculty-reviewed angiographic view map and the lab’s own diagnostic catheter stock list.
- AnticoagulationLocal ACT and heparin targets by procedure. Institutional, and it has to come from pharmacy and from the lab.
Last updated 2026-09-19 · Program, Cath Work Guide specification, 2026-09-19
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