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SCAI Sets TransRadial
Intervention Program (TRIP) for Angioplasty from
the Wrist
Registration for November
Radial Summit in Boston Fills Two Weeks in Advance;
New Training Course Set
for January in Philadelphia to Meet Demand
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October
24, 2010 -- A sure sign that the transradial or
wrist approach to performing catheterizations, angioplasty
and stent placement is gaining in interest in the United
States is the fact that all available spaces for SCAI's first
course on the technique were filled over two weeks in
advance. This course, the "SCAI
Radial Summit", will be held in
Boston on November 5.
Acknowledging the enthusiastic response, SCAI has scheduled
a second course, the SCAI
Transradial Intervention Program
(TRIP) to be held on January 15, 2011 in Philadelphia.
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As previously
reported by Angioplasty.Org, the Boston
meeting will be the first standalone course on the transradial approach
to coronary interventions to be organized by a national professional
society in the U.S. This second course in Philadelphia will be co-chaired
by Kimberly Skelding, M.D., FSCAI and Samir
B.
Pancholy, M.D., FSCAI, and will feature a faculty of the most
highly trained and well respected experts in the field of transradial
interventions.
The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and
Interventions states that SCAI TRIP is designed for
interventional cardiologists, interventional cardiology fellows-in-training
and
other healthcare
professionals (nurses, technologists, etc) at all experience
levels, whether they are looking to launch a TRI program or looking
to pick
up advanced information. Details about the course and registration
will soon be announced. For more information, email
scai.radial@angioplasty.org.
Popular
in Europe and Asia, the transradial (or wrist) approach to percutaneous
catheter-based diagnostic and interventional procedures is just
starting out in the U.S. Various hospital centers and cardiologists
who have learned the transradial technique have been offering courses
to other physicians
and cath
lab personnel on a limited basis for the past several years, but
recently SCAI has become involved in promoting
training. The organization hosted two major symposia on the radial
approach at its Annual Scientific Sessions held in San
Diego this past March, and is now offering what may become a series
of meetings around the country.
The Tentative Agenda for the SCAI TRIP course in
Philadelphia follows:
Saturday, January 15,
2011
Early Morning Session |
| 8:00-8:15 AM |
Welcome |
| 8:15-8:30 AM |
Post-PCI Bleeding, Prevalence, Implications |
| 8:30-8:45 AM |
TRA impact on Outcomes, Global Experience |
| 8:45-9:00 AM |
Do We Need a US Randomized Controlled Trial for TRI? |
| 9:00-9:15 AM |
How to Start a TRI Program |
| 9:15-9:30 AM |
Training guidelines for TRI |
Break |
| 10:00-10:15 AM |
Patient Selection Set-up |
| 10:15-10:45 AM |
Catheters for Diagnostic Procedures / PCI |
| 10:45-11:00 AM |
Upper Extremity Right Heart Procedures |
| 11:00-11:30 AM |
Difficult Anatomy How To's |
| 11:30-11:45 AM |
TRI in High Risk Subsets Rota/STEMI/Grafts/Bifurcations |
| 11:45 AM-Noon |
Radial Complications |
Lunch |
| 1:00-1:15 PM |
Post Procedural Protocols, Discharge |
| 1:15-1:45 PM |
Radial Artery Occlusion Prevention, Management |
| 1:45-2:00 PM |
Antithrombotic Therapy With TRI. What and Why? |
| 2:00-2:30 PM |
Peripheral TRI |
| 2:30-2:45 PM |
Embolic Risk and Radiation Exposure With TRI |
| 2:45-3:00 PM |
Guide Catheter Support, Basics. Why TRI Might Be Better
Than TFI. |
| 3:00-4:00 PM |
Simulator session (faculty guided with pre-defined curriculum) |
Break |
| 4:15-5:00 PM |
Interesting Cases With Faculty Panel Review |
| 5:00-5:45 PM |
Open forum. Q & A and cases from attendees |
| 5:45 PM |
Closing Remarks |
Simulator |
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will be available at this course. More information coming
soon. |
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About The Radial Access Center on Angioplasty.Org
To assist in educating the professional and patient population in the U.S. about
the this technique, Angioplasty.Org created the "Radial
Access Center for Transradial Approach" in 2007, a special
section devoted to information and news about the transradial technique, for
both patients and physicians. The Radial Center features interviews with leading
practitioners of the radial technique, such as Drs. Jeffrey Popma, Sunil Rao,
John Coppola, Shigeru Saito, Jennifer Tremmel and Howard Cohen. The section
also maintains a
listing of upcoming training courses in the transradial approach.
For patients there is also a "Hospital
Locator" that lists U.S. centers practicing
radial angiography. As Dr. Howard Cohen of Lenox Hill Hospital
in New York says of the wrist technique, "Patients really
prefer it. 95% of people who've had it both ways would say
'I'm coming back to you, Dr. Cohen because I like this transradial
a lot better than the other way!'
Reported by Burt Cohen, October 24, 2010
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