Safety of Same Day Discharge After Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Indus Hospital and Health Network

Status: Completed

Conditions: Coronary; Angioplasty

Treatments: Other: Same Day Discharge

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02214082

TIH-Cardio-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Study intends to determine if there is any difference in the occurrence of major adverse cardiology events in patients discharged on the same day as their elective cardiac angioplasty or discharged one day after their angioplasty.

Hypothesize that same day discharge is as safe as a day later discharge.

Enrollment: 210 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: :

• Low risk lesion (according to the ACC classification)
• Normal Pre Catheterization laboratory investigation
• Procedure performed before 3 pm
• procedure performed with ≤ 6 French guiding Catheter
• EF ≥ 35%
• living at a distance of within 15 kilometers from hospital
• caregiver present at home
• elective procedure

Exclusion Criteria:

• Acute PCI
• high risk lesions (according to the ACC classification)
• deranged Pre Catheterization laboratory investigations
• Age >70
• Severe LV dysfunction, CVA
• procedure to be performed with a guiding catheter >6F
• Use of IIb/IIIa inhibitor
• Creatinine clearance of < 50

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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210 participants in 2 patient groups

Next day discharge

No Intervention group

Description:

this group will be discharged as is the standard practice at our facility; i.e. the day after the PCI procedure

Same Day Discharge

Experimental group

Description:

Patients in this arm will be discharged on the same day as their angioplasty.

Treatment:

Other: Same Day Discharge