Comparison of Patients Undergoing Radial or Femoral Arterial Access for Percutaneous Catheterization-Nursing Aspects

Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Radial Artery Access; Femoral Artery Access

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00638586

HY/102008

Details and patient eligibility

About

Transradial access is a recently developed alternative for diagnostic andf interventional cardiac catheterization. We sought to compare the differences between patients that have undergone PTCA transradial and transfemoral access from the nursing point of view:

1. Anxiety levels
2. Pain at access point, pain in general and level of pain during mobility
3. Differences in feelings of embarrassement
4. Differences in satisfaction

Enrollment: 160 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients scheduled for PTCA without any exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

• Dementia
• Psychiatric patients
• Unconscious
• Minors
• Patients who had PTCA in past
• Patients who were initially scheduled for different access

Trial design

160 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Description:

Femoral access

2

Description:

Radial access