Vascular access

Original Research

Safety and Performance of the Terumo Pinnacle TIF Tip Sheath

08/04/2010

Frank J Criado, MD

We report on our center’s clinical experience which supports the view that the new TIF Pinnacle sheath offers superior performance and enhanced safety. The complication rate was essentially nil and the use of closure devices was obviated...

We report on our center’s...

08/04/2010

Vascular Disease Management

Original Contribution

Focus on Vascular Access: The Introducer Sheath Revisited

01/14/2009

Frank J. Criado, MD
Union Memorial Hospital/MedStar Health, Baltimore, Maryland

Frank J. Criado, MD Union Memorial Ho...

The Seldinger technique (first published in 1953) stands alone as a development so singularly important that it changed…everything! Nothing would have been possible without it: not modern diagnostic angiography or cardiac and vascular...

The Seldinger technique (first...

01/14/2009

Vascular Disease Management

Review

Economics of an Interrupted, Non-Penetrating Clip Anastomosis for Vascular Access Procedures

09/05/2008

End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is increasing in epidemic proportions worldwide. Therefore, vascular access procedures are rapidly becoming the most common surgery performed in the world.

End-stage renal disease (ESRD)...

09/05/2008

Vascular Disease Management