While a number of the 12,000 attendees started leaving and catching planes to their home bases all over the world yesterday, some to Florida for the beginning of yet another major heart meeting, the AHA, and some who will be off next week to the Veith Symposium in New York, the real evidence that TCT is over for the year is this view of the Exhibit Area, taken moments ago: rugs rolled up, fork lifts rolling forward, hi-tech exhibits slid into wooden framed crates….
Next year, TCT will be held in Miami, Florida on October 22-26, 2012 and the following year will be back in San Francisco.
Having an coronary angiogram or heart stent placed via the wrist approach is common in Europe. India and Japan — much less so in the U.S. — even though the wrist (transradial) approach offers lower complications and higher patient comfort. Some studies have even shown that the radial approach, with its significantly lower bleeding complications, is superior in treating heart attacks (STEMI) since those patients need to be on high levels of anticoagulation meds.
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 
Dr. Jack Hall, Program Director at St. Vincent’s Heart Center in Indianapolis, Indiana will be heading a faculty of transradial experts on Saturday. The “
For physicians (and others) who are interested in seeing an advanced PCI case using the transradial or wrist approach, tune in tomorrow morning at 8:00am to this month’s 
Just a reminder to you interventional cardiologists, cath lab nurses and technologists who are interested in learning how to do angiograms, angioplasty and stents from the wrist — next Saturday, January 15, is SCAI’s second transradial program, being held in Philadelphia with an “all-star” faculty of transradial experts (see “
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