Cardiac Catheterization

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Rural hospitals were significantly less likely to provide essential cardiac services compared with hospitals in urban areas, according to a research letter published in Circulation.

Not fasting before cardiac catheterization procedures with conscious sedation was noninferior and likely superior to fasting for safety, and improved patient satisfaction, researchers reported at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

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AI accurately predicted several measures of cardiac function from coronary angiography that would otherwise require additional tests such as echocardiography or catheterization, a speaker reported.

Patients not required to fast before cardiac catheterization reported higher overall postprocedural satisfaction with no periprocedural adverse events, a speaker reported.

ATLANTA — Preventive PCI plus optimal medical therapy was superior to optimal medical therapy alone for patients with nonflow-limiting vulnerable coronary plaques, according to the results of the PREVENT trial.

An initiative in Michigan successfully reduced patient, physician and staff exposure to procedural radiation during percutaneous coronary intervention, and may be generalizable in other states, researchers reported.

A consensus statement outlines best practices and competencies for cardiac catheterization in pediatric patients and adults with congenital heart disease, reflecting an evolution in practice for patients with unique procedural requirements.

It seems long ago now that so much has changed, but just a few decades ago, interventional cardiologists, electrophysiologists and others who work daily with X-ray machines lived in a very different world.