Catheter-Based Cardiovascular Interventions A Knowledge-Based Approach /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lanzer, Peter. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Angiography.; Cardiology.; Heart > Surgery.; Vascular Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.; Angiology.; Cardiac Surgery.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27676-7

Operator skills, and in particular decision-making and strategic skills, are the most critical factor for the outcome of catheter-based cardiovascular interventions. Currently, such skills are commonly developed by the empirical trial and error method only. In this textbook, for the first time, an e...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents: Historical Background: Interventional cardiology
• Interventional vascular radiology
• Interventional neuroradiology
• Skills and Expertise: Cognitive science
• Cognitive skills
• Psychomotor skills
• Professional expertise
• Legal expertise
• Computer simulations
• Diagnostic modalities: Cardiovascular X-ray imaging
• Radiation protection
• Coronary angiography
• Cerebral angiography
• Peripheral angiography
• IVUS
• Fractional flow reserve
• OCT
• Clinical Concepts: Femoral and brachial artery access sites
• Radial artery access site
• Popiteal artery access site
• Pedal artery access site
• Closure devices
• Instrumentation
• Guiding catheters
• Coronary Artery Disease: Stenting strategies. Bicurcations
• Grafts, vein and arteries
• Chronic total occlusions
• Multi-vessel disease
• Emergency PCI
• Complications.