COMPLICATIONS OF PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION. THE SURVIVAL HANDBOOK

1. Preventing and Treating Vasovagal Reactions
2. Difficulty Gaining Femoral Access
3. Difficulty Gaining Radial Access
4. Preventing and Treating Radial Spasm
5. Radial Approach: Negotiating Difficult Subclavians and Dilated Aortic Roots
6. Unable to Intubate the Left Coronary System
7. Unable to Intubate the Right Coronary Artery
8. Unable to Find and Intubate Grafts
9. Unable to Access the Pulmonary Artery
10. Managing Periprocedural Chest Pain
11. Left Main Stem Stenosis: How to Proceed
12. Ventricular Tachycardia and Fibrillation
13. Aortic Dissection and Injury
14. Acute Onset Hypotension
15. Coronary Spasm
16. Pulmonary Oedema
17. Coronary Dissection
18. Coronary Air Embolism
19. Ventricular Perforation
20. Periprocedural Stroke
21. Removal of Retained Equipment
22. No-Reflow Phenomenon
23. Tackling Calcified Lesions
24. Coronary Rupture
25. Cardiac Tamponade
26. Bifurcations: Tips and Tricks
27. Distal Wire Perforation
28. Stent Embolization
29. Complications of Rotablation
30. Stent Fracture and Longitudinal Stent Compression
31. Risk Management of Femoral Arterial Access-Related Complications in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
32. Iliofemoral Artery Dissection, Rupture, or Distal Ischaemia
33. Postprocedural Renal Impairment
34. Arterial Injury During Radial Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
35. Coil Embolization: How, When and Why

Complications of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: The Survival Handbook aims to serve as a reference manual for all cardiologists, particularly those in training, who face life-threatening complications of PCI on a day-to-day basis. Drawing on the background and experience of cardiologists from both sides of the Atlantic, the book aims to be a valuable, practical, and most of all readable resource for the interventional cardiologist. The principles and practices described in the book will be of interest to all practitioners of interventional catheter procedures, including interventional radiologists, vascular surgeons, and cardiologists.Few medical procedures have evolved as dramatically or as quickly as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). From its initial conception, PCI has evolved to become a very complex procedure. Each year in the United States well over 1,000,000 percutaneous coronary intervention procedures are performed. However as the volume and complexity of the procedures being performed has increased, so has the potential for procedural error leading to life-threatening complications. Knowledge of what complications can occur during PCI and how to deal with them is vital for the practicing cardiologist, and can mean the difference between life and death.

Features
• Useful reference manual for all cardiologists, particularly those in training, who face life-threatening complications of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions on a day-to-day basis
• Authored by experienced cardiologists with a track record in patient safety
• A valuable, practical, and most of all readable resource for the interventional cardiologist with comprehensive and detailed illustrations