[1] Older cath labs used cine film to record the information obtained, but since 2000, most new facilities are digital.

The latest digital cath labs are biplane (have two X-ray sources) and use flat panel detectors.

This may include a medical practitioner (normally either a consultant cardiologist or radiologist), cardiac physiologist, radiographer and nurse.

They also have a live view of the patients ECG so they can tell whether or not there is a problem caused by the insertion of the catheter into the heart to the electrical pathways.

[7] Cardiac catheterization is a general term for a group of procedures that are performed in the cath lab, such as coronary angiography.