Home » STENT PATIENTS GO HOME SOONER IF WRIST ARTERY USED
STENT PATIENTS GO HOME SOONER IF WRIST ARTERY USED
Many patients whose coronary stents are delivered through an artery in the wrist instead of through a groin artery do not require overnight hospitalizations that are now standard for 1 million Americans each year, researchers said recently. Patients in a new trial were able to go home within hours because use of the wrist's radial artery -- a far smaller blood vessel than the groin artery -- reduced the amount of Johnson and Johnson's ReoPro blood thinner needed to control bleeding.
Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051114/hl_nm/stent_artery_dc_1)
KEYWORDS FDAnews Device Daily Bulletin
Upcoming Events
-
07May
-
14May
-
30May