LUMEN Meeting to Feature Teaching Session on Transradial STEMI Interventions
Transradial benefits include lower rate of bleeding complications and lower cost - “Radial first: Are you ready?”
Malvern, PA, December 09, 2010 --(PR.com)-- The North American Center for Continuing Medical Education, LLC (NACCME), in partnership with HMP Communications, LLC, publisher of Cath Lab Digest, today announced that the annual LUMEN: The Symposium on Optimal Treatments for Acute MI meeting, the world’s premier annual STEMI interventions meeting, taking place February 24-26, 2011, at the JW Marriott Marquis Miami in Miami, Florida, will feature a teaching session on transradial STEMI interventions.
Radial access for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is no longer hiding out as a “niche” procedure in the United States. Access via the radial versus femoral artery has been shown to have lower rates of bleeding and vascular complications, and lower costs. Patients also avoid having to lie flat on their back for hours, ambulate more quickly, and are able to return to work sooner. As a result, they often become some of the most enthusiastic proponents of radial access.
Some have argued that the transradial approach should not be used in acute myocardial infarction patients because of the potential need for an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP). Radialists respond that performing PCI through the arm does not preclude the operator from using the femoral artery for an IABP if needed, and in fact, still works to help lower the rate of bleeding complications by sparing one groin.
In fact, notes LUMEN chairperson Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, the U.S. lags behind the world in its single-digit percentage rate of transradial use. “LUMEN will make a very sincere and determined effort to narrow this gap,” said Dr. Mehta. “We have a very strong faculty, which will be conducting workshops and offering information, tips, and practical lessons on transradial use in STEMI interventions.”
The LUMEN transradial in STEMI session will present a thorough review of the available data along with trial-and-error experience. Issues such as initial patient selection, handling radial and subclavian loops, spasm, procedure time, positioning, and cath lab preparation and set up will be discussed.
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Radial access for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is no longer hiding out as a “niche” procedure in the United States. Access via the radial versus femoral artery has been shown to have lower rates of bleeding and vascular complications, and lower costs. Patients also avoid having to lie flat on their back for hours, ambulate more quickly, and are able to return to work sooner. As a result, they often become some of the most enthusiastic proponents of radial access.
Some have argued that the transradial approach should not be used in acute myocardial infarction patients because of the potential need for an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP). Radialists respond that performing PCI through the arm does not preclude the operator from using the femoral artery for an IABP if needed, and in fact, still works to help lower the rate of bleeding complications by sparing one groin.
In fact, notes LUMEN chairperson Sameer Mehta, MD, FACC, the U.S. lags behind the world in its single-digit percentage rate of transradial use. “LUMEN will make a very sincere and determined effort to narrow this gap,” said Dr. Mehta. “We have a very strong faculty, which will be conducting workshops and offering information, tips, and practical lessons on transradial use in STEMI interventions.”
The LUMEN transradial in STEMI session will present a thorough review of the available data along with trial-and-error experience. Issues such as initial patient selection, handling radial and subclavian loops, spasm, procedure time, positioning, and cath lab preparation and set up will be discussed.
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