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Transradial Angioplasty
Training in Indianapolis
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Indianapolis,
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April 26, 2011 --
This Saturday cardiologists, cath lab managers and hospital administrators
will gather in Indianapolis for a day-long workshop in the transradial
approach to angioplasty, stents diagnostic angiograms.
Dubbed "The Indianapolis Transradial Summit (Perfecting
Your Transradial Technique)", the program is aimed at those interested
in establishing or expanding a transradial
practice. and will utilize targeted presentations,
high-definition case video, and interactive discussions with
expert faculty.
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13 Modules - 9 Faculty
A full day of presentations will be led by nine faculty members, all
expert transradialists. Among the faculty will be
Dr. Jack Hall, Program Director at St. Vincent's Heart
Center
in
Indianapolis,
Dr.
Jack Chen of Northside Hospital in Atlanta, Dr. Mauricio Cohen of
University of Miami Hospital, Dr. Sunil V. Rao of Duke University
Health System, Dr. Sandeep Nathan of University of Chicago Medical
Center and more. Complete details on faculty and schedule can be
found in the
online program brochure (PDF).
You can read interviews
with many of these radial experts in Angioplasty.Org's Radial
Access Center.
In discussing the course, Dr. Hall told Angioplasty.Org
that he is looking to bring in a wider audience than
just clinicians:
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transradial technique out to more U.S. physicians, particularly
here in the central Indiana region and the Midwest. We hope to
bring in not only physicians and hospitals that want to start
transradial programs, but also people that have adopted the technique
recently and want to refine their technique with new tips and
tricks.... We also want to offer transradial training to hospitals,
hospital administrators, cath lab managers and CV service line
administrators,
so that they can learn along with their physicians about the
transradial technique and what it may mean to their facility
from an economic standpoint, patient throughput standpoint and,
of course, help everyone to understand the clinical advantage
of the transradial." |
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Dr. Jack
J. Hall |
Cost-Effectiveness of Transradial
With cost-consciousness and efficiency becoming
more central in the national discussion over healthcare reform and
Medicare, the
transradial approach offers unique advantages in several ways. Although
the recent RIVAL Trial showed equivalence between the femoral and
radial approaches for the primary endpoint, the secondary endpoints
and the incidence of major and minor access site complications were
significantly lower in the radial cohort. Likewise, the group of
patients treated
for
STEMI had better outcomes with the radial approach, mainly due to
the need for powerful anticoagulation in STEMI patients -- access
site bleeding complications are almost zero when the wrist is used
as the catheter-access site. As Dr. Hall and others have pointed
out, just one bleeding complication can be very expensive, so lower
incidence of in-hospital complications translates to lower costs
-- the potential for cost-efficiency when the transradial
approach is utilized may be significant.
Additionally, because patients are able to sit up and walk almost
immediately after a radial procedure, as opposed to the femoral approach,
which requires patients to lie flat in bed for hours unless a vascular
closure device is used, patients can safely be discharged earlier;
angioplasties can easily be done as outpatient procedures. All of
these have cost-saving implications for our healthcare system.
The Indianapolis
Transradial Summit us being held on Saturday, April 30, 2011 from
7:00am - 5:00pm at the Hilton Indianapolis North. Full program information
is available online.
The organizers state that
space is limited, so please register online at www.transradial-summit.org or
call 888.508.8554 for more information.
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,
Mauricio Cohen, John Coppola, Shigeru Saito and Jennifer Tremmel.
For interventional cardiologists and cath lab staff,
Angioplasty.Org also maintains a
listing of upcoming training courses in the transradial
approach. For patients, there is a unique "Radial
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, April 26, 2011
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