Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) includes the use of angioplasty and atherectomy to reduce the stenosis that can occur with coronary artery disease. It also includes the stents that are usually delivered to the lesions that are
Although interventional cardiology can involve a wide variety of procedures and technologies, we are focusing on coronary stents, one of the largest categories of supply spend in hospitals. Although the use of balloon angioplasty was intitially
In a hospital supply chain setting, Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) refers to to pacemakers, defibrillators, and cardiac resynchronization devices (CRTs). These devices are designed to normalize the beating of the heart, and although they have improved
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