Physician competence is an essential component in the provision of optimal health care.
Physicians must have the appropriate training, fund of knowledge, clinical decision making …

Innovations in interventional cardiology historically predate those in neuro-intervention. As
such, studying trends in interventional cardiology can be useful in exploring avenues to …

Background It is unclear whether radial compared with femoral access improves outcomes
in unselected patients with acute coronary syndromes undergoing invasive management …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to provide a quantitative appraisal of the effects on
clinical outcomes of radial access for coronary interventions in patients with coronary artery …

Background—Radial access for percutaneous coronary intervention (r-PCI) is associated
with reduced vascular complications; however, previous reports have shown that< 2% of …

Radial access use has been growing steadily but, despite encouraging results, still varies
greatly among operators, hospitals, countries and continents. Twenty years from its …

Objectives: This study sought to determine the effect of radial access on outcomes in women
undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using a registry-based randomized …

Background Emerging evidence from randomized clinical trials (RCTs) comparing distal
radial access (DRA) with conventional radial access (RA) is available. Objectives The aim of …

Sunil V. Rao, 1* MD, Jennifer A. Tremmel, 2 MD, Ian C. Gilchrist, 3 MD, Pinak B. Shah, 4 MD,
Rajiv Gulati, 5 MD, PHD, Adhir R. Shroff, 6 MD, MPH, Van Crisco, 7 MD, Walter Woody, 8 …

Background—Adoption of transradial percutaneous coronary intervention (TRI) in the United
States is low and may be related to challenges learning the technique. We examined the …