Day-after PCI: Safe for the patient but perhaps not for the Interventionalist

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.