Radial Access

This channel includes news, techniques and new technology innovations for radial access, also called transradial access or radial artery access. This concerns the location of introducer sheaths and vascular access for interventional procedures. Radial access is supported to result in fewer complications compared to femoral access.

The economic benefits of radial, transradial access for PCI  coronary interventions
Feature | Radial Access | Dave Fornell

There has been much discussion about how use of transradial access may help reduce costs by cutting hospital admissions ...

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Top stories of 2012 in cardiology
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To help identify trends and find out what DAIC readers are interested in, the magazine takes note of what they click on ...

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Radial access, arm board,
Feature | Dave Fornell

Radial access has been a standard for most patient cases for several years at both the University of Illinois at Chicago ...

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November 6, 2012 — A study has found several benefits in using the radial artery in the arm as the entry point for ...

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November 6, 2012 — Vascular Solutions launched the R-Band radial hemostasis compression device in the United States ...

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October 19, 2012 — The 24th Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference, sponsored by the Cardiovascular ...

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September 17, 2012 — The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) announced the late-breaking trials and first report ...

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Use of transradial access for PCI can increase radiation exposure.
Feature | Radial Access | Mladen I. Vidovich, M.D., FACC, FSCAI

Recently, concerns have been raised that transradial (TR) cardiac catheterization significantly increases radiation ...

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Feature | Eric Rosen, D.O., Dan Wubneh, D.O., Kerri Wing, R.N., Robert Sanchez, M.D., Stephen Minor, M.D. and Peter Wassmer, M.D.

 

There is much discussion about the possibility of using transradial artery access to help reduce door-to-balloon times ...

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July 13, 2012 — In the United States, radial artery catheterization is performed in the minority of diagnostic ...

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June 15, 2012 — Vascular Solutions Inc. today announced that it has acquired the radial artery access wrist positioning ...

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A radial artery angiogram demonstrating perforation of the radial artery at the bifurcation with the brachial artery, with evidence of extravasation of contra
Feature | Radial Access | Asim R. Zaidi, M.D., Mladen I. Vidovich, M.D., Adhir R. Shroff, M.D., and Bernadette Speiser, MSN, CCRN

 


The radial artery approach is exceptionally well-suited for diagnostic angiography and, with a lower incidence of ...

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Feature | Vascular Closure Devices | Dave Fornell

Manual compression remains the gold standard of care in sealing interventional access site wounds, but there is a trend ...

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December 30, 2011 – The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) published a paper that examines ...

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Feature | Colin Barker, M.D.

At Memorial Hermann Heart and Vascular Institute – Texas Medical Center, we have expanded our already robust cardiac ...

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