Improvement of Periprocedural Guidewire Management for Cardiac Catheterization (PTCA)

RWTH Aachen University

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Cardiac Catheterization

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00825331

Guidewire Management for PTCA

Details and patient eligibility

About

Periprocedural management of guidewire placement and removal in patients needing cardiac catheterization by use of marking of the access site and removal procedure due to a graduated scheme

Full description

Before elective cardiac catheterization, patients undergo an ultrasound-guided marking of the bifurcation of the common femoral artery in order to access the vascular complication rate compared tho those of non-marked patients.

Concerning the removal of the guided wire, patients will be treated due to a graduated scheme taking care of different risk levels. This procedure should improve clinical routine, but the efficacy and safety have to be assessed. Depending on the risk level, the guide wire will be removed either by an ambulance officer or emergency medical technician, assistant personal of the cardiac catheterization operating room or by a physician specialist in intensive care. Both methods should lead to quality assurance.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• elective cardiac catheterization or PCI or emergency interventions

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

0 participants in 4 patient groups

1

Description:

patients for elective catheterization without special risks

2

Description:

patients for elective catheterization with special risks

3

Description:

patients for PCI without GP IIb/IIIa

4

Description:

Patients for PCI with GPIIb/IIIa and emergencies