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November 2024 Br J Cardiol 2024;31(4) doi:10.5837/bjc.2024.047 Online First

Devising and delivering the UK’s first nurse-led cardiac catheter laboratory radial access programme

Dorota Wojcik, Rithik Mohan Singh Sindhi, Mahmood Ahmad, Tim Lockie, Roby Rakhit, John Gerry Coghlan

Abstract

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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