Complex PCI: Everything is Complex in Shock!-Your Tool Box: How to Make Complex PCI Simpler

Your Tool Box: How to Make Complex PCI Simpler

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Video Summary

In the video, the speaker discusses strategies and tools for performing complex percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs). Complex PCIs often involve patients with challenging anatomy or significant comorbidities, increasing procedural risks. The speaker emphasizes the importance of planning, access techniques, physiology, and imaging. Techniques like radial access can improve outcomes, and using hemodynamic supports like impella devices can lower mortality during high-risk procedures. Additionally, employing tools such as physiology studies and imaging, particularly intravascular ultrasound, can improve procedural success. Proper management of calcified lesions with atherectomy devices is also crucial for full-stent expansion.

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Mohit Pahuja, MD

Keywords

complex percutaneous coronary interventions

radial access

hemodynamic support

intravascular ultrasound

atherectomy devices