Strategies to increase the use of forearm approach during coronary angiography and interventions
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Eleftherios Kontopodis; Efstathios Lazaris; Aggeliki Rigatou; Georgios Nikitas; Andreas Tassopoulos; Konstantinos Kintis; Michael Koutouzis; Sotirios Patsilinakos
- Source
- Cardiovascular revascularization medicine : including molecular interventions. 19(8)
- Subject
- Coronary angiography
medicine.medical_specialty
Cardiac Catheterization
medicine.medical_treatment
Psychological intervention
Coronary Artery Disease
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Coronary Angiography
03 medical and health sciences
Ulnar Artery
0302 clinical medicine
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Forearm
medicine.artery
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Radial artery
Ulnar artery
Cardiac catheterization
Groin
business.industry
General Medicine
body regions
medicine.anatomical_structure
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Radial Artery
Physical therapy
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1878-0938
The aim of this article is to focus on the utilization of forearm approach for cardiac catheterization in challenging groups of patients. Radial and ulnar approaches have gained significant popularity among the majority of interventional cardiologists. Multiple studies have demonstrated the feasibility, safety and efficacy of forearm route for cardiac catheterization and have highlighted the significant reduction in bleeding complications by avoiding the puncture of the groin. In this review we present the strategies need to be followed in order to apply the forearm approach in challenging group of patients.