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Absence of increased in-hospital complications with reused balloon catheters
K H Mak1, M J Eisenberg, S Plante
1Department of Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio 44195, USA.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|September 15, 1996
Abstract:
A reanalysis of data from a prospective Canadian study suggests that catheter reuse is not associated with an increased rate of in-hospital complications. However, these results should be replicated in clinical trials before catheter reuse becomes routinely established.