Communication to cure cath chaos.

Communication errors in the cath lab may lead to incorrect medication administration or dosing, or incorrect sizes of devices deployed in patients, with catastrophic results. Use of closed-loop communication minimizes these errors. In this study, two rounds of quality improvement projects improved, but did not completely close the communication gap. Standard setting by professional societies and individual cath lab leaders may be necessary to improve the use of closed-loop communication in cath labs-although a completely successful strategy remains to be identified.