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The Trans Radial Intervention and Patient Subsets (II). The Very Old and The Very Sick Octogenerians, Acute Coronary Syndromes. M.Heigert Landeskrankenhaus Salzburg Bad Gastein 10.02.2007.
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The Trans Radial Intervention and Patient Subsets (II) The Very Old and The Very Sick Octogenerians, Acute Coronary Syndromes M.Heigert Landeskrankenhaus Salzburg Bad Gastein 10.02.2007
The Transradial Access: A way to prevent entry site complications and thus adverse Outcomes of Cardiac Interventions in the high risk subset of the elderly?Aren`t the patients too sick and the access too complicateted ?
The Salzburg Experience n=2833 Patient Demografics and Procedural Data irrespective of age
The Salzburg Experience: Complications * Transfusions or prolonging hospitalisation
The Radial Access in General: necessity of energy and dedication
Radial Failure Rate Meta analysis Radial failure = 1,9 % If OCTOPLUS Study is excluded (patients > 80 years, RF 10,6%, FF 9,3%) P.Agostini et al- JACC 2004; 44:349-56
The Salzburg Experience:Octogenerians periprocedural data * Access site hematoma and vessel-problems
The Salzburg Experience:Octogenerians periprocedural data * Access site hematoma and vessel-problems