On-site surgical standby for percutaneous coronary intervention: A thing of the past?

Heart

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 281-283

  De Belder, Mark A ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY STENT; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ANGINA, UNSTABLE; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; STENTS; SURGICENTERS; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34147195815     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2006.104034     Document Type: Editorial

References (23)

1. Carlsson J, James SN, Stahle E, et al. Outcome of percutaneous coronary intervention in hospitals with and without on-site cardiac surgery standby. Heart 2007;93:335-8.
2. Angelini P. Guidelines for surgical standby for coronary angioplasty: should they be changed? J Am Coll Cardiol 1999;3:1266-8.
3. Ludman PF, on behalf of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society. BCIS audit returns. Adult interventional procedures. January 2005 to December 2005. http://www.bcis.org.uk (accessed 30 December 2006).
4. Yang EH, Gumina RJ, Lennon RJ, et al. Emergency coronary artery bypass surgery for percutaneous coronary interventions. Changes in the incidence, clinical characteristics, and indications from 1979 to 2003. J Am Coll Cardiol 2005;46:2004-9.
5. Stone GW, Brodie BR, Griffin JJ, et al. Role of cardiac surgery in the hospital phase management of patients treated with primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol 2000;85:1292-6.
6. Carey JA, Davies SW, Balcon R, et al. Emergency surgical revascularisation for coronary angioplasty complications. Br Heart J 1994;72:428-35.
7. Parker DJ, Gray HH, Balcon R, et al. Planning for coronary angioplasty: guidelines for training and continuing competence. Heart 1996;75:419-25.
8. Dawkins KD, Gershlick T, de Belder M, et al. Joint Working Group on Percutaneous Coronary Intervention of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society and the British Cardiac Society. Heart 2005;91(Suppl VI):vi1-27.
9. Singh M, Ting HH, Berger PB, et al. Rationale for on-site cardiac surgery for primary angioplasty: a time for reappraisal. J Am Coll Cardiol 2002;39:1881-9.
10. Smith SC Jr, Feldman TE, Hirshfeld JW Jr, et al. ACC/AHA/SCAI 2005 guideline update for percutaneous coronary intervention: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (ACC/AHA/SCAI Writing Committee to Update the 2001 Guidelines for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention). Circulation 2006;113:e166-286.
11. Ryan TJ. Percutaneous coronary interventions without on-site cardiac surgery: a stretch for much-needed evidence. Am Heart J 2003;145:214-16.
12. Richardson SG, Morton P, Mutagh JG, et al. Management of acute coronary occlusion during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty: experience of complications in a hospital without on site facilities for cardiac surgery. BMJ 1990;300:355-8.
13. Singh M. Primary angioplasty should be performed in hospitals without on-site surgery. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2005;65:1-7.
14. Weaver WD. Why we should not do percutaneous coronary intervention at sites without surgical back-up. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2005;65:8-9.
15. Kimmel SE, Berlin JA, Laskey WK. The relationship between coronary angioplasty procedure volume and major complications. JAMA 1995;274:1137-42.
16. Moscucci M, Share D, Smith D, et al. Relationship between operator volume and adverse outcome in contemporary percutaneous coronary intervention practice. J A Coll Cardiol 2005;46:625-32.
17. Antman EM, Cohen M, Bernink PJ, et al. The TIMI risk score for unstable angina/non-ST elevation MI: a method for prognostication and therapeutic decision making. JAMA 2000;284:835-42.
18. De Luca G, Suryapranata H, Ottervanger JP, et al. Time delay to treatment and mortality in primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction: every minute of delay counts. Circulation 2004;109:1223-5.
19. Aversano T, Aversano LT, Passamani E, et al. Atlantic Cardiovascular Patient Outcomes Research Team (C-PORT). Thrombolytic therapy vs primary percutaneous coronary intervention for myocardial infarction in patients presenting to hospitals without on-site cardiac surgery: a randomized controlled trial, JAMA 2002;287:1943-51.
20. Vakili BA, Kaplan R, Brown DL. Volume-outcome relation for physicians and hospitals performing angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction in New York state. Circulation 2001;104:2171-6.
21. Wharton TP Jr, McNamara NS, Fedele FA, et al. Primary angioplasty for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction: experience at two community hospitals without cardiac surgery. J Am Coll Cardiol 1999;33:1257-65.
22. Ting HH, Raveendran G, Lennon RJ, et al. A total of 1,007 percutaneous coronary interventions without onsite cardiac surgery. Acute and long-term outcomes. J Am Coll Cardiol 2006;47:1713-21.
23. Wennberg DE, Lucas FL, Siewers AE, et al. Outcomes of percutaneous coronary interventions performed at centers without and with onsite coronary artery bypass surgery. JAMA 2004;292:1961-8.