November 2024 Br J Cardiol 2024;31(4) doi:10.5837/bjc.2024.047 Online First
Dorota Wojcik, Rithik Mohan Singh Sindhi, Mahmood Ahmad, Tim Lockie, Roby Rakhit, John Gerry Coghlan
Introduction While undertaking percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) at a tertiary-care cardiology suite, radial artery access (RAA) has demonstrated the advantage of reduced bleeding-related complications as compared with the traditional femoral artery access.1 The utilisation of RAA has significantly increased, with a majority of UK hospitals adopting this approach as the preferred method. The National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR) national dataset reported that in 2015, up to 80.5% of cases were undertaken via the RAA route, which was a significant rise from 2004 (10.2%).2 Compared with femoral angiography, rad
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