Guidelines of the Spanish Society of Cardiology on Requirements and Equipment in Hemodynamic and Interventional Cardiology

In the last 20 years the work performed in catheterization laboratories has changed greatly, and while also taking the diagnostic aspects also into ac count, interventional cardiology has acquired an important role. Work in th e catheterisation laboratory has evolved from only diagnostic studies of ca rdiac anatomy and function, and evaluation of potential surgical candidates , to interventional procedures mainly based on catheters techniques. As new diagnostic and interventional procedures are now available, human an d technical requirements of the catheterization laboratory have changed. Th e aim of this report is to make an update of the requirements needed to per form diagnostic and interventional procedures in the cardiac catheterizatio n laboratory.