Catheterization Laboratory
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Paul N. Fiorilli; Elizabeth Zhou; Saif Anwaruddin; Ronak Shah
- Source
- Anesthesiology Clinics. 35:627-639
- Subject
- Aortic valve
medicine.medical_specialty
Transcatheter aortic
Heart disease
medicine.medical_treatment
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
law.invention
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Valve replacement
law
Internal medicine
Occlusion
medicine
Cardiopulmonary bypass
030212 general & internal medicine
Cardiac catheterization
Mitral valve repair
business.industry
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
medicine.anatomical_structure
cardiovascular system
Cardiology
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1932-2275
The cardiac catheterization laboratory is advancing medicine by performing procedures on patients who would usually require sternotomy and cardiopulmonary bypass. These procedures are done percutaneously, allowing them to be performed on patients considered inoperable. Patients have compromised cardiovascular function or advanced age. An anesthesiologist is essential for these procedures in case of hemodynamic compromise. Interventionalists are becoming more familiar with transcatheter aortic valve replacement and the device has become smaller, both contributing to less complications. Left atrial occlusion and the endovascular edge-to-edge mitral valve repair devices were approved. Although these devices require general anesthesia, an invasive surgery and cardiopulmonary bypass machine are not necessary for deployment.