Transradial arterial access for coronary and peripheral procedures: Executive summary by the transradial committee of the SCAI

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 823-839

  Caputo, Ronald P ^a   Tremmel, Jennifer A ^b   Rao, Sunil ^c   Gilchrist, Ian C ^d   Pyne, Christopher ^e   Pancholy, Samir ^f   Frasier, Douglas ^g   Gulati, Rajiv ^h   Skelding, Kimberly ⁱ   Bertrand, Olivier ^j   Patel, Tejas ^k  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f Janet Weis Children s Hospital   (United States)

^g Manchester Heart Centre   (United Kingdom)

^h MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

ⁱ GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^j LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^k VS Hospital   (India)

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Author keywords

arterial access; percutaneous coronary intervention; radial artery; vascular complications

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN; HIRULOG; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; VERAPAMIL;

ACCREDITATION; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY PERFORATION; ARTERY SPASM; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; HEART CATHETER; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RENAL ARTERY; SPASMOLYSIS; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; TREATMENT FAILURE; ULNAR ARTERY; VASCULAR ACCESS; VEIN GRAFT; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CREDENTIALING; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIAL ARTERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 81455135474     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.23052     Document Type: Article

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