Radiation safety and vascular access attitudes among cardiologists worldwide》.pdf

Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine 16 (2015) 109–115 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine Radiation safety and vascular access: attitudes among cardiologists worldwide Mladen I. Vidovich a,⁎, Asrar A. Khan a, Hui Xie b, Adhir R. Shroff a a Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois b Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Cancer Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Objectives: To determine opinions and perceptions of interventional cardiologists on the topic of radiation and Received 26 November 2014 vascular access choice. Received in revised form 15 January 2015 Background: Transradial approach for cardiac catheterization has been increasing in popularity worldwide. There Accepted 23 January 2015 is evidence that transradial access (TRA) may be associated with increasing radiation doses compared to transfemoral access (TFA). Keywords: Methods: We distributed a questionnaire to collect opinions of interventional cardiologists around the world. Radiation Cardiac catheterization Results: Interventional cardiologists (n = 5332) were contacted by email to complete an on-line survey from Femoral access September to October 2013. The response rate was 20% (n = 1084). TRA was used in 54% of percutaneous coronary Radial access