Lynne Hinterbuchner
Latest contributions
Building bridges, not barriers: transforming communication with patients
22 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Enhance your communication skills with patients undergoing interventional cardiology procedures. This session emphasizes verbal and non-verbal techniques to inform and support patients, simplifying complex procedural explanations, and strengthening your role as the critical link between patients and the healthcare team for improved outcomes.
Cathlab harmony: building high-performance teams
21 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Discover strategies to build and maintain high-performance teams in the cathlab environment. This session outlines how to foster a collaborative culture, address toxic behaviors, and effectively train and integrate team members to enhance teamwork and procedural success in cardiovascular interventions.
Nurses and Allied Professionals: How does frailty and cognition impact patient selection for TAVI?
26 Nov 2024 – From PCR London Valves 2024
How do frailty and cognitive function shape patient selection for TAVI? Karen Wilson and Lynne Hinterbuchner discuss the essential role of screening and assessment in identifying suitable candidates, highlighting tools like the Edmonton scale and emphasizing the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to prehabilitation.
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Abstracts from the Call for submissions - Nurses and Allied Professionals
16 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session features selected abstracts from the call for submissions, focusing on the contributions of nurses and allied health professionals in the field of interventional cardiology. The presentations cover topics such as patient experience in the TAVI process, insights into the use of intravascular imaging and...
The taboo of mental health in the cathlab
15 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session aims to address the impact of the stressful cathlab environment on the mental health of healthcare professionals. It explores the unique challenges faced in the cathlab, the role of communication in affecting staff mental health, and strategies to build a more resilient workforce. The...
Clinical cases from the Call for submissions - Nurses and Allied Professionals
15 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
Understanding how to use evidence in clinical practice
14 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session focuses on understanding how to apply the latest evidence and clinical guidelines in daily practice for Non-Interventional Cardiologists (NAPs). It covers the influence of patient-reported outcomes on cardiovascular clinical practices, the translation of the 2023 ACS clinical guidelines into NAP's practice, the impact of...
What about MINOCA?
14 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session focuses on the topic of Myocardial Infarction with Non-Obstructive Coronary Arteries (MINOCA). It covers the mechanisms underlying MINOCA, the criteria for its diagnosis, and the management of patients with this condition. The session provides insights from both the clinician's and the patient's perspectives, addressing...
Extend your scope of practice beyond traditional roles
21 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Explore this session to expand your professional horizons within the cath lab, uncovering a spectrum of opportunities, and gain insights into the indispensable role that seasoned nurses and allied professionals assume in supporting the Heart Team throughout transcatheter valve interventions.
Nurse-led conscious sedation - Is it the way to expand your TAVI service?
20 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Watch this PCR London Valves 2023 session to learn how to safely implement nurse-led sedation, protect yourself from radiation, apply proper drug protocols, and ensure good assessment and monitoring during and after TAVI.
Don't forget the nurses and allied professionals when introducing new technology!
19 Nov 2023 – From PCR London Valves 2023
Learn all you need to know about adopting new technology, bearing in mind that both trainer and trainee share learning responsibilities and that focus should be on collaboration with industry and variety of teaching methods.
TAVI troubles - The role of Nurses and Allied Professionals
18 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
In these slides, gain insights into potential TAVI issues, learn to anticipate and manage complications, and explore the pivotal role of NAP\'s.
Working in the cathlab makes everyday different
17 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
Experience the dynamic cathlab environment, where each day brings unique challenges. These slides will cover diverse topics such as pulmonary ductus arteriosus, coronary artery fistula, TAVI with mechanical mitral valve, and much more!
Pregnant women working in the cathlab
17 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
Lynn Hinterbuchner welcomes Angeliki Kolyda, radiographer, in the PCR TV studio, in the heart of EuroPCR 2023, to talk about pregnancy in the cathlab. Should a woman really worry about working in a cathlab? If so, why? When exactly? How can she best protect herself?
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Mitral and tricuspid patients are different from the TAVI population - Impact on clinical care
28 Nov 2022 – From PCR London Valves 2022
Consult this session to learn more about the different needs of mitral and tricuspid patients, to appreciate what optimal medical therapy really means and to improve your knowledge of the anticoagulant requirements for different patient populations.
Is frailty still relevant after 20 years of TAVI?
28 Nov 2022 – From PCR London Valves 2022
Consult this session to gain further knowledge of the frailty syndrome, to understand its relevance in today's patient population and to learn how to measure it using validated tools.
The multidisciplinary structural heart team - How do we include the patient
27 Nov 2022 – From PCR London Valves 2022
Consult this session on the multidisciplinary structural heart team to learn more about the evolving role of the team and how this affects decision making, to discover why patient advocacy and partnership is vital within the team, as well as to identify potential barriers and enablers of the future...
Acute coronary syndrome: are women really so different?
18 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Lynne Hinterbuchner shares with Elena Calvo the take-home messages from this session in which a female patient gave a touching testimony, highlighting the importance of taking the patient's history into account.
EuroPCR 2022 Grande Finale
20 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Have you ever wondered how you would feel if you were in the shoes of the patient you are treating? This is the question that the speakers at the closing ceremony of this 2022 edition of EuroPCR try to answer with humility, kindness, and emotion.
Abstract session for nurses and allied professionals
20 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Among the abstracts presented in this session, discover the impact of sheath size on time to hemostasis after radial interventions, find out more about telephone follow-up after discharge following TAVI, or view the answer to the question: can we avoid routine midazolam to enhance patients' cognition and knowledge?
Up to date with technology: how to
20 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
How to use coronary artery diagnostic technology? What are the advances in Xray imaging and radiation safety? Angiogram, FFR, QFR, OCT, IVUS... When and what technology should I use? These are the questions this EuroPCR 2022 session seeks to answer.
Best practice in care of access sites
19 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Timeout and pre-procedural checklists, care of femoral access site, care of radial access site, patient discharge, tradition- versus evidence-based guidelines: these are the subjects covered by this EuroPCR 2022 session, which concludes with the award ceremony for NAP clinical cases 2022.
How to implement advanced practice for NAPs in your country
19 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
What is advanced practice? What about pre-procedural, procedural, and post-procedural advanced practice? How is advanced practice understood in Europe? Find some answers in this session of EuroPCR 2022.
Celebrating the work of Nurses and Allied Professionals - EuroPCR 2022
19 May 2022
The Andreas Grüntzig Ethica Award is presented every year to individuals who have contributed in an extraordinary way to the PCR mission. At EuroPCR 2022, an entire community is being recognised – all Nurses and Allied Professionals (NAPs) working in the field received the Andreas Grüntzig Ethica...
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What's new in 2022
18 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
This session emphasizes the fact that guidelines, although still too rarely, can be written BY and FOR NAPs, and are the most important tool to be used for decision making, and that COVID has changed the way we work, while maintaining a high level of protection...
Acute coronary syndrome: are women really so different?
18 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 222
This session delivers key messages to nurses and allied professionals: listen to your female patients, help them describe their symptoms, ask the right questions to determine their history, and know which Troponin levels reflect a positive ACS.
EuroPCR 2022 Welcome Ceremony
17 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
It is with emotion that William Wijns and Jean Fajadet opened this new edition of EuroPCR, which introduced a hybrid format, combining on-site and online learning. "Spark" is the key word for this EuroPCR 2022, which aims to put the spotlight on nurses and allied professionals,...
What will be relevant for TAVI assessment in 2020?
19 Nov 2019 – From PCR London Valves 2019
Consult this session to learn all about what will be relevant for TAVI assessment in 2020: key imaging requirements before referral to the Heart Team, which patients may need a pacemaker and when it should be implanted, how modern Heart Teams should function, and more!
How best to educate and consent our patients
19 Nov 2019 – From PCR London Valves 2019
Consult this session to learn all about how to educate and consent your patients, what they truly want to know and the techniques your should use to educate them.
