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Symposium on Advantages of Radial Access

This "breakfast symposium", titled "Transradial Access: The Advantages to You, Your Patient and Hospital", was originally held on Thursday, October 16, 2008 as part of the activities, symposia and workshops, offered by Terumo Interventional Systems at the 2008 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting in Washington DC.

Presentation of this symposium is made possible through a partnership of Angioplasty.Org, TCTMD.com and Terumo Medical Corporation. We urge healthcare professionals to visit the TCTMD website. More presentations such as this one are available through the TCT's premium service TCT Gold.


"Transradial Access, the Advantages to You,
Your Patient and Hospital"

Each 15-minute segment below
is presented in full audio and video.
(Flash must be installed on your computer.
If it is, you may download it free from Adobe).

Jeffrey J. Popma, MD     "Why we need to see greater use
of transradial access"
  Jeffrey J. Popma, MD
Caritas Cardiovascular Center
St. Elizabeth Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts

Ramon Quesada, MD   "Transradial access for STEMI"
  Ramon Quesada, MD
Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute
Miami, Florida

Ron Caputo, MD   "In the modern era vascular
complications are still significant"
  Ron Caputo, MD
St. Joseph’s Hospital Cardiology Associates
Syracuse, New York

Shigeru Saito, MD   "My worldwide experience and
how transradial has grown"
  Shigeru Saito, MD
Shonan- Kamakura General Hospital
Japan