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Volume 30 - Issue 5 - May 2022

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Case Report
Utilizing Single Transpedal Access and Novel Use of Coronary Wires, Support Catheter and Balloons for Navigating Acute Angles During Complex Multivessel Revascularization of Infrapopliteal Vessels
06/05/2022
Som A. Bailey, DO, MD; Amal Khan, MS-IV; Mehreen Ali; Azmi Mohammed, MD, MRCP, FACC
Below-the-knee retrograde access or transpedal access has become increasingly popular for peripheral interventionalists. Access through the pedal arteries may offer benefits in peripheral intervention that are similar to the transradial...
Below-the-knee retrograde access or transpedal access has become increasingly popular for peripheral interventionalists. Access through the pedal arteries may offer benefits in peripheral intervention that are similar to the transradial...
Below-the-knee retrograde access...
06/05/2022
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Original Research
Nurses’ Compliance and Confidence With a Hand-Off Process for Patients Post Femoral Arterial Access Before and After a Standardized Approach
05/05/2022
Melissa Anderson, MSN, RN, CCRN; Amanda Urosek, RN, BSN, CVRN-BC II; Wendy Shaffer, BSN, RN; Virginia Iscrupe, BS, BSN, RN, PCCN
This study encompassed the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Step Down Unit (SDU), and Progressive Care Units (PCU), along with the Heart Center staff, at Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, which includes three...
This study encompassed the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Step Down Unit (SDU), and Progressive Care Units (PCU), along with the Heart Center staff, at Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, which includes three...
This study encompassed the...
05/05/2022
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Case Report
Pushing Boundaries: Transradial Access for Complex PCI
05/05/2022
Jaikirshan J. Khatri, MD
TAKERU PTCA Balloon Dilatation Catheters have been recently launched by Terumo. In this report, we summarize our initial experience with the TAKERU balloon catheter. Since July 1, 2019, we have used these balloon catheters routinely in our...
TAKERU PTCA Balloon Dilatation Catheters have been recently launched by Terumo. In this report, we summarize our initial experience with the TAKERU balloon catheter. Since July 1, 2019, we have used these balloon catheters routinely in our...
TAKERU PTCA Balloon Dilatation...
05/05/2022
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Case Report
Iatrogenic Brachial Artery Occlusion as a Result of Subclavian Steal Syndrome
05/05/2022
Gordon J. Farley; Monarch Shah, MD; Abha Kulkarni, MS, MPH; Mihika Shah, MS; Riya-Aisha Patel; Pratik B. Patel, MD, FACC
Iatrogenic brachial artery occlusion is a rare phenomenon occurring postoperatively in patients that have undergone catheterization. Approximately 0.9% of patients who have undergone cardiac catheterization experience brachial artery injury...
Iatrogenic brachial artery occlusion is a rare phenomenon occurring postoperatively in patients that have undergone catheterization. Approximately 0.9% of patients who have undergone cardiac catheterization experience brachial artery injury...
Iatrogenic brachial artery...
05/05/2022
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Perspectives
The Bedside Clinician
05/05/2022
Vaibhav Kadam, OMS III; Pradnya Brijmohan Bhattad, MD
With the fast-moving development of newer procedures, and new diagnostic techniques and investigations offering a medical diagnosis, physicians now have a significant amount of advanced technology available to them. We are told that the...
With the fast-moving development of newer procedures, and new diagnostic techniques and investigations offering a medical diagnosis, physicians now have a significant amount of advanced technology available to them. We are told that the...
With the fast-moving development...
05/05/2022
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Case Report
Kinked Catheter Unravelment in the Right Upper Extremity: An Unconventional Solution
05/05/2022
Avraham Miller, MD; Ravi Jayanti, MD; Richard Casazza, MAS, RT(R)(CI); Enrico Montagna, RT(R)(CI); Bilal A. Malik, MD, FACC
According to the American College of Cardiology’s National Data Registry, use of the radial approach in cardiac catheterization has grown from 1% in 2008 to approximately 50% in the United States, with the right radial approach (RRA) being...
According to the American College of Cardiology’s National Data Registry, use of the radial approach in cardiac catheterization has grown from 1% in 2008 to approximately 50% in the United States, with the right radial approach (RRA) being...
According to the American...
05/05/2022
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Case Report
“Winter is Coming… But Gets Well(ens)”: Two Rare Patterns of LAD Occlusion in the Same Patient, Suggesting Spontaneous Reperfusion
05/05/2022
Juan Guzman Olea, MD; Gonzalo Tolosa Dzul, MD; Miguel Angel Rojas Carrera, MD; Gabriel Guzman Olea, MD; Elliot Ivan Hernandez Heredia, MD; Carlos Javier Gonzalez Alvarez, MD; Jose Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez, MD; Daniel Ivan Perez Vasquez, MD; Jorge Guillermo Arenas-Fonseca, MD
The de Winter and Wellens’ syndrome patterns are associated with acute left anterior descending coronary artery occlusion; however, it is very rare to find both patterns in the same patient. In this case, a decrease in the J point in the...
The de Winter and Wellens’ syndrome patterns are associated with acute left anterior descending coronary artery occlusion; however, it is very rare to find both patterns in the same patient. In this case, a decrease in the J point in the...
The de Winter and Wellens’...
05/05/2022
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Column

Cath Lab Management
Enabling Improved Patient Outcomes and Reduced Costs: TYRX Outcomes Protection Program
05/05/2022
Laurie Niemet; Kristin Doster; Ruben Weber; Eric E. Johnson, MD; J. Randall Mullins, MD
The continuous effort to provide high value healthcare involves the pursuit of three linked goals, according to the Triple Aim: (1) improving the experience of care, (2) improving the health of populations, and (3) reducing per capita costs...
The continuous effort to provide high value healthcare involves the pursuit of three linked goals, according to the Triple Aim: (1) improving the experience of care, (2) improving the health of populations, and (3) reducing per capita costs...
The continuous effort to provide...
05/05/2022
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Advanced Imaging & Patient Care
Extensive Subendocardial Ischemia: A Predictive Electrocardiogram
05/05/2022
Luigi Pacifico, DO; Pradnya Brijmohan Bhattad, MD
A 75-year-old male with a history of hypertension and dyslipidemia presented with several weeks of exertional dyspnea and underwent a nuclear stress test for evaluation of his exertional dyspnea. After the administration of Lexiscan during...
A 75-year-old male with a history of hypertension and dyslipidemia presented with several weeks of exertional dyspnea and underwent a nuclear stress test for evaluation of his exertional dyspnea. After the administration of Lexiscan during...
A 75-year-old male with a...
05/05/2022
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Insights

FROM THE CLINICAL EDITOR
Commentary: Kinked Catheter Unravelment in the Right Upper Extremity: An Unconventional Solution
05/05/2022
The Maimonides Medical Center team presents a case of a kinked radial catheter in an elderly man with significant shoulder vessel tortuosity. Several considerations to avoid such a problem should be remembered. For short people (5'5") or...
The Maimonides Medical Center team presents a case of a kinked radial catheter in an elderly man with significant shoulder vessel tortuosity. Several considerations to avoid such a problem should be remembered. For short people (5'5") or...
The Maimonides Medical Center...
05/05/2022
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Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FAHA, FACC 

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Rebecca Kapur, rkapur@hmpglobal.com

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