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To aspirate or not!: The question may be not if, but when
Author(s) -
Tommaso Carl L.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.26605
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care medicine , contrast (vision) , catheter , surgery , artificial intelligence , computer science
Key Points Current guidelines indicate that routine aspiration thrombectomy (AT) has a level III indication and AT is only indicated for “bail‐out” indications. “Bail‐out” situations are not well defined. The AT catheter may still be necessary and have other uses such as distal contrast or drug delivery.