A Tortuous Path

An image can be worth a thousand words. In this course, we review an image of a right coronary catheter accessing the aorta via a right radial artery approach and discuss issues, concerns, and potential solutions for radial artery catheterization.

You will learn:

• To correctly interpret the path taken by coronary catheters accessing the central circulation from a radial artery approach.
• To list the advantages and disadvantages of radial artery catheterization
• To determine when a coronary angiogram is adequate or alternate approaches need to be taken to obtain adequate coronary angiograms.

Author(s): Lawrence Gimple, MD and Michael Ragosta III, MD

Estimated time to complete: 15 minutes

Credit hours: .25

Method and Medium: Learners participate in the interactive learning modules by correctly answering multiple choice questions dispersed throughout. Learners will be prompted to try again if a question is answered incorrectly.