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Interventional Diagnostic Procedure: A Practical Guide for the Assessment of Coronary Vascular Function
Published on: March 15, 2022
[Coronary interventionism]
Gabriela Urincho Pérez1, Rosa Ruíz Piñeiro, Alberto Avendaño Peralta
1Servicio de Hemodinámica, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología "Ignacio Chávez", INCICH, Juan Badiano Núm. 1, Col. Sección XVI, 14080 Tlalpan, México, DF. cuerinchogaby@yahoo.com.mx
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Percutaneous coronary revascularization offers a less invasive treatment for acute coronary syndromes compared to traditional surgery. This approach reduces risks, hospitalization time, and costs, enabling faster patient recovery.
Area of Science:
- Cardiology
- Interventional Cardiology
Context:
- Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) necessitate effective treatment strategies.
- Technological advancements have introduced percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) as a viable alternative to traditional surgery.
Purpose:
- To highlight the benefits of PCI as a less invasive treatment for ACS.
- To emphasize the advantages of PCI over traditional surgical revascularization.
Summary:
- PCI utilizes devices like balloons and stents to open blocked coronary arteries, avoiding major surgery.
- This minimally invasive procedure offers reduced risks, shorter hospital stays, and quicker recovery times.
- The procedure involves a multidisciplinary team including interventionists, anesthesiologists, nurses, and technicians.
Impact:
- PCI significantly lowers the risks associated with traditional surgery, such as intubation and thoracotomy.
- Patients benefit from decreased bleeding, infection rates, and overall healthcare costs.
- Faster restoration to daily life is a key outcome for patients undergoing PCI.
Abstract:
The scientific and technological advances have allowed that to the patients with acute coronary syndromes, offer an alternative to them of treatment in the rooms of hemodynamic by means of coronary interventionism, using catheter compliante or noncompliante ball, ball of cut, implanting stent nonliberating and liberating of drugs, avoiding to them the risk of a greater surgery to place venous or arterial bridges in the affected zone; receiving therefore the benefit of a percutaneous coronary revascularization, by means of a procedure less aggressive than the surgery without the risks of traqueal intubation, thoracotomy, saphenectomy, cardioplegia, drainages, minor risk of bled and infection, short period of time of hospitalization, decrease of the costs and the time for its restoration to the daily life. During the development of coronary interventionism personal professional participates: interventionist, anesthesiologist cardiologist, nurse and technician in Rx. The coronary interventionist procedure is a common procedure but of high risk, since the manipulation of the catheters and guides is direct in the light of the glass to treat; only in the year of 1997 a million procedures were made at world-wide level, without a doubt some, this has been increased enormously, demanding so the infirmary professional that toils in the room of hemodynamic maintains updated in the different techniques from coronary interventionism, as well as to know the diverse instruments and devices that the biomedical industry develops day to day to provide a free suitable attention of risk.
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