Effect of radial versus femoral access on radiation dose and the importance of procedural volume: A substudy of the multicenter randomized RIVAL trial

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 258-266

  Jolly, Sanjit S ^a   Cairns, John ^b   Niemela, Kari ^c   Steg, Philippe Gabriel ^d   Natarajan, Madhu K ^a   Cheema, Asim N ^e   Rao, Sunil V ^f   Cantor, Warren J ^g   Džavík, Vladimír ^h   Budaj, Andrzej ⁱ   Sheth, Tej ^a   Valentin, Vicent ^j   Fung, Anthony ^b   Widimsky, Petr ^k   Ferrari, Emile ^l   Gao, Peggy ^a   Jedrzejowski, Barbara ^a   Mehta, Shamir R ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^e ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g SOUTHLAKE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

ⁱ GROCHOWSKI HOSPITAL   (Poland)

^j HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DR PESET   (Spain)

^k CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^l PASTEUR HOSPITAL   (France)

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Author keywords

Femoral access; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Radial access; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LEARNING CURVE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VASCULAR ACCESS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LOW VOLUME HOSPITAL; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FLUOROSCOPY; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, LOW-VOLUME; HUMANS; LEARNING CURVE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84878831107     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: 18767605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2012.10.016     Document Type: Article

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