Radial Versus Femoral Arterial Access for Cardiac Catheterization: Comparison of Complications at 30 Days

Creighton University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Radial Artery Occlusion

Treatments: Other: Distal pulses; Other: Allen's test

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01019330

09-15552

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cardiac catheterization has traditionally been performed via access to the arterial circulation from the femoral artery located in the groin. As an alternative to this approach, the radial artery, located in the arm, is gaining wider use in clinical practice. Multiple studies have demonstrated that cardiac catheterization via the radial approach has a very low complication rate, in the short term. This study is intended to determine if there are any differences in the long term complication rate between radial artery cardiac catheterization as compared with femoral artery cardiac catheterization.

Enrollment: 243 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male or Female
• 19 years old or older
• candidate for radial or femoral cardiac catheterization

Trial design

243 participants in 2 patient groups

Femoral

Description:

Subjects receiving femoral artery cardiac catheterization

Treatment:

Other: Distal pulses

Radial

Description:

Subjects receiving radial artery cardiac catheterization

Treatment:

Other: Allen's test