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September
8,
2011 -- 6:45pm EDT
Transradial Angioplasty Training in Las Vegas
 This
weekend Richard R. Heuser, MD, FSCAI and John E. Lassetter, MD,
FSCAI of St. Luke's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona
will be conducting a
one-day course in transradial (wrist) angioplasty at
the Wynn/Encore Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. But the games of chance
will be relegated to the casinos because, as Dr. Heuser recounts
in his
exclusive interview with Angioplasty.Org, the wrist approach
to diagnostic and interventional coronary procedures is safer for
patients, more comfortable for patients and (trumpet fanfare) has
the potential to reduce costs of healthcare as well.
And Dr. Richard Heuser has been performing PCIs since
the beginning days of balloons and stents -- so his perspective
on why the transradial approach offers significant benefits is definitely
of import to cardiologists across the U.S.
As he states in his interview, if you utilize
the transradial approach:
"...you'll reduce your likelihood
of vascular complications by four times, and if you look at
the most comprehensive
head to head trial, the RIVAL trial, you'll see that you will
not give up anything in terms of safety and efficacy. You will
give up the fact that you will have more blood transfusions
and more vascular complications going femorally and, if you
look at the sites that were high volume radials, they actually
had an improvement in hard outcomes -- that's MI, and morbidity,
and mortality. So I think that if I could be so bold as to
say, you're doing your patients a disservice if you don't at
least consider radial an option in patients... even to the
point that they request it...because the reality is, they
are going to be requesting it."
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Read
the entire interview here....
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