Starting and Operating a Public Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory in a Low Resource Setting: The Eight-Year Story of the Uganda Heart Institute Catheter Laboratory

Starting and Operating a Public Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory in a Low Resource Setting: The Eight-Year Story of the Uganda Heart Institute Catheter Laboratory

Background: Low- and-middle-income-countries (LMICs) currently bear 80% of the world’s cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality burden. The same countries are underequipped to handle the disease burden due to critical shortage of resources. Functional cardiac catheterization laboratories (cath labs) a...

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Main Authors: Joselyn Rwebembera, Twalib Aliku, James Kayima, Sulaiman Lubega, Elias Sebatta, Brian Kiggundu, Daudi Kirenzi, Wilson Nyakoojo, Charles Mondo, Krishna Kumar, Kanishka Ratnayaka, Shakeel Qureshi, Sanjay Daluvoy, Peter Lwabi, John Omagino, Craig Sable, Chris Longenecker, Dan Simon, Marco Costa, Emmy Okello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2021-02-01
Series:Global Heart
Subjects:
cardiac
catheterization
laboratory
cath lab
uganda
cvd
lmic, africa
Online Access:https://globalheartjournal.com/articles/859

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