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A Higher Level of Cardiac Care To Help Quality of Life
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To help improve patients’ quality of life, Crittenton Hospital Medical Center is pleased to offer a variety of advanced stenting procedures. One innovative treatment utilized at Crittenton is transradial access for coronary interventions.
Coronary interventions have become a more widespread and preferred solution for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Minimally invasive procedures, for numerous reasons, are preferred alternatives to surgery for many. Yet patients who have undergone these less invasive, lifesaving procedures are often left with bruises and the memories of pain caused by femoral access.
Transradial access takes patient satisfaction to the forefront and offers coronary intervention with the potential of less pain and bruising, as well as a lower risk of vascular complications.
“Transradial access has had limited use in the United States despite its many benefits to the patient, physician, and healthcare workers,” says Samer Y. Kazziha, MD, FACP, FACC, FSCAI, FCCP, FSVMB, Executive Medical Director of Cardiovascular Services at Crittenton. “I am confident that, as the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services [CMS] continues to investigate costs and quality outcomes, transradial access will be utilized to a greater degree.”
There are definitely pockets of transradial access practiced around the country. These physicians continuously cite a high degree of patient satisfaction, lack of vascular complications, and practice differentiation as driving factors for their primary use of the transradial approach.
The biggest misconception regarding transradial access is that it should be used only for patients with difficult or failed femoral access. Conversely, Dr. Kazziha views femoral access as an alternative for the few patients in whom transradial access is not possible or advisable. Virtually every patient who has had both access approaches strongly prefers transradial access.
Outpatient coronary intervention is feasible, and the transradial approach will be the safest way to perform outpatient percutaneous coronary intervention. The risks associated with femoral stenting are essentially nonexistent with the transradial approach. Patients benefit from fewer complications, lower risk of nerve damage, shorter hospital stays, reduced costs, and a more efficient procedure.
To learn more about interventional cardiology services, visit www.crittenton.com, or schedule an appointment with a cardiologist by calling (248) 652-5294.
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