Transradial Access. Just Do It!

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1065-1066

  Mann, Tift ^a  

^a Wake Heart Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary intervention; radial artery; vascular access

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; VERAPAMIL;

AGE; ARTERY PUNCTURE; ARTERY SPASM; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; EDITORIAL; GUIDE WIRE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SHORT STATURE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; VASCULAR ACCESS;

AGE FACTORS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BODY HEIGHT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; RADIAL ARTERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 70449492709     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2009.08.023     Document Type: Editorial

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