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If you need cardiac catheterization, your healthcare provider may advise the transradial type. The transradial approach may have a mildly lower risk for complications compared with the method that goes through a blood vessel in the leg (transfemoral). Your recovery may be shorter and easier as well when compared to the transfemoral approach.
Transradial cardiac catheterization is performed using local anesthesia, and may take an hour or more, depending on the procedure performed. The patient usually feels nothing more than a short stinging pain from the initial numbing injection.
This handout gives care instructions to follow for the first few days after having a cardiac catheterization using the transradial approach. This type of catheteriziation is done through an artery in the patient's wrist.
During transradial cardiac cath, the catheter is inserted into an artery in the wrist. This can mean less bleeding and a faster recovery. Some people may have blockages in the groin arteries as well as in the heart arteries, making it hard to reach the heart.
Cardiac catheterization (also called cardiac cath or coronary angiogram) is an invasive imaging procedure that allows your doctor to look at your coronary arteries to diagnose coronary artery disease. It can also be used to measure pressures in your chambers, and evaluate the function of your heart.
You will receive a phone call 24 hours after your procedure from a cardiac procedure unit nurse. You will have a post-operative visit in the Clinic approximately 4 weeks after your procedure. If you did not receive an appointment for your return visit before you left the hospital, please call (888) 287-1082 to schedule this visit.
Following TRA best practices and strategies to minimize the incidence of RAO allows for future use of the radial artery for cardiac catheterization and potentially for use in coronary artery bypass surgery and arteriovenous (AV) fistula creation for dialysis access.
If you need cardiac catheterization, your healthcare provider may recommend the transradial type. The transradial approach may have a slightly lower risk for complications compared with the method that goes through the leg (transfemoral). Your recovery may be shorter and easier.
Care guide for After Radial Heart Catheterization. Includes: possible causes, signs and symptoms, standard treatment options and means of care and support.
Rates of all-cause mortality at 30 days or longest follow-up after transradial or transfemoral percutaneous coronary intervention in trials (A) that enrolled patients with either stable ischemic heart disease (SIHD) or acute coronary syndromes (ACS) or (B) that enrolled only patients with ACS.