Complications of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Complications of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: The Survival Handbookaims toserve as a reference manual for all cardiologists, particularly those in training, whoface life-threatening complications of PCI on a day-to-day basis. Drawing on thebackground and experience of cardiologists from both sides of the Atlantic, the bookaims to be a valuable, practical, and most of all readable resource for theinterventional cardiologist. The principles and practices described in the book will beof interest to all practitioners of interventional catheter procedures, includinginterventional radiologists, vascular surgeons, and cardiologists.Few medical procedures have evolved as dramatically or as quickly as percutaneouscoronary 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-threateningcomplications. Knowledge of what complications can occur during PCI and how to deal with them is vital for the practicing cardiologist, and can mean thedifference between life and death.