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Vascular Access for Percutaneous Interventions and Angiography

Built from Cardiovascular Catheterization and Intervention: A Textbook of Coronary, Peripheral, and Structural Heart Disease

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7 sections · 117 slides

  1. 01

    Overview

    • Scope of this topic

    1 slide

  2. 02

    Ultrasound-guided vascular access

    • Rationale for ultrasound-guided access
    • Learning curve for ultrasound-guided access
    • FAUST trial: access success with ultrasound
    • FAUST trial: attempts, venipuncture and complications
    • RAUST trial: ultrasound for radial cannulation
    • Equipment for ultrasound-guided puncture
    • Ultrasound technique for femoral access
    • Confirming the puncture site under fluoroscopy
    • Ultrasound guidance for axillary access
    • Sequence of ultrasound-guided femoral puncture
    • Common femoral artery anatomy and the inguinal ligament
    • Groin crease compared with the femoral head

    12 slides

  3. 03

    Femoral access

    • Role of common femoral artery access
    • Anatomy of the common femoral artery
    • Consequences of a high arterial puncture
    • Consequences of a low arterial puncture
    • Level of arterial puncture and its consequences
    • Variation in bifurcation level
    • Groin crease as an unreliable landmark
    • What ultrasound adds at femoral puncture
    • Ultrasound benefit in large-bore access

    9 slides

  4. 04

    Access-site complications

    • Bleeding as the leading cause of death
    • Bleeding and mortality: GLOBAL LEADERS
    • Clinical and economic burden of bleeding
    • Mechanisms of harm from transfusion after PCI
    • Anatomy-related causes of femoral complications
    • Patient and operator causes of complications
    • Caution with large-bore access
    • Management of a high arteriotomy bleed
    • Covered stent grafts for failed tamponade
    • Confirming closure after a high bleed
    • Retroperitoneal bleed from a high sheath and its rescue
    • Management of a low arteriotomy bleed
    • Persistent bleeding after a low puncture
    • Pseudoaneurysm on duplex and thrombin injection equipment
    • Femoral artery thrombosis
    • Initial approach to femoral artery thrombosis
    • Thrombectomy and adjuncts
    • Vascular surgery and stenting considerations
    • Common femoral occlusion after a closure device and its treatment

    19 slides

  5. 05

    Haemostasis and vascular closure devices

    • Manual compression after sheath removal
    • Technique of obstructive manual compression
    • Mechanical compression devices
    • Haemostatic patches as an adjunct
    • Uptake and evidence for vascular closure devices
    • Prerequisites before using a closure device
    • Complications of vascular closure devices
    • Angio-Seal: design and performance
    • Angio-Seal: sizes and combination use
    • Perclose ProGlide and ProStyle mechanism
    • Advantages of the Perclose platform
    • ProStyle compared with ProGlide
    • Snared knot pusher of the ProStyle device
    • Device fracture and arterial avulsion
    • Arterial avulsion after forceful removal of a closure device
    • MANTA device: design
    • MANTA device: clinical data
    • CHOICE-CLOSURE: MANTA versus ProGlide
    • Reading the closure device comparison
    • Vascular closure devices: platform and puncture size
    • Vascular closure devices: platform and puncture size (continued)
    • Vascular closure devices: platform and puncture size (continued)
    • Vascular closure devices: FDA indicated use
    • Vascular closure devices: design and resorption
    • Vascular closure devices: design and resorption (continued)
    • Vascular closure devices: design and resorption (continued)

    26 slides

  6. 06

    Radial access

    • Adoption of transradial access
    • Early objections and access site choice
    • Patient selection for radial access
    • Radial access and spontaneous coronary dissection
    • Assessment of collateral circulation
    • Landmarks and local anaesthesia for radial puncture
    • Puncture technique and sheath insertion
    • Wire behaviour and troubleshooting
    • Sheath and specialty wire selection
    • Failure of radial access and conversion
    • Radial artery spasm and the sheath cocktail
    • Composition and cautions of the radial cocktail
    • Catheter advancement to the ascending aorta
    • Pressure monitoring during catheter advancement
    • Balloon-assisted tracking
    • Alternative strategies for difficult radial anatomy
    • Patent haemostasis at the radial arteriotomy
    • Monitoring during radial band deflation

    18 slides

  7. 07

    Trial evidence and radial complications

    • RIVAL trial
    • RIVAL STEMI subanalysis
    • MATRIX trial
    • RIFLE-STEACS trial
    • STEMI-RADIAL trial
    • Radial access outside the acute setting
    • OCTOPUS trial in complex coronary lesions
    • Radial artery spasm
    • Radial artery occlusion
    • Prevention of radial artery occlusion
    • Forearm haematoma and compartment syndrome
    • Management of forearm haematoma
    • Radial access site infection
    • Radial pseudoaneurysm and arteriovenous fistula
    • Nerve injury after radial access
    • Principles of safe femoral access
    • Key points on access selection
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    • Cardiovascular Catheterization and Intervention: A Textbook of Coronary, Peripheral, and Structural Heart Disease
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