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A comparative assessment of Dorsal radial artery access versus classical radial artery access for percutaneous
Awadhesh Kumar Sharma1, M M Razi1, Neeraj Prakash2
1Department of Cardiology, LPS Institute of Cardiology, Kanpur, UP, 208002, India.
Objectives:
This is an open-label randomized control trial with a parallel assignment with single masking comparing patients undergoing coronary angiography via dorsal radial and classical radial access.
Methods:
Study done at three tertiary cardiac care centers for two years. A total of 970 patients were finally recruited for the study. Patients were randomly selected for dorsal radial artery access Group A (485 patients) and classical radial artery access Group B (485 patients) without any bias for age & sex.
Results:
On comparative assessment both techniques are found to be equal in terms of procedural success rate. While dorsal access was superior in terms of fewer incidences of forearm radial artery occlusion, radial artery spasm, less post-procedure persistence of pain, and hand clumsiness. In comparison to this, the number of puncture attempts and time to achieve post-procedure hemostasis is less in classical radial access.
Conclusion:
So both techniques have pros and coins and it is the discretion of interventionists to adopt which technique.
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