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Day‐after PCI: Safe for the patient but perhaps not for the Interventionalist
Author(s) -
Blankenship James C.
Publication year - 2018
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.27965
Subject(s) - conventional pci , medicine , percutaneous coronary intervention , single center , cath lab , psychological intervention , percutaneous , emergency medicine , medical emergency , cardiology , surgery , myocardial infarction , psychiatry
Key Points This single‐center study retrospectively reviewed 12,680 percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) to identify those performed by an operator who was awake the previous night performing PCI. Success and outcomes of PCIs were similar regardless of whether the operator performed PCIs the previous night. This study generally confirms the results of a previous single center study and another study using the NCDR CathPCI Registry. This study suggests that day‐after PCI is generally safe, but it behooves cath lab managers and interventionalists to take simple steps to minimize the risk to patients when day‐after PCIs are performed.