Tips and Tricks for Equipment Delivery and Crossing Challenging Lesions: Guide Extensions, Microcatheters, Specialty Wires, Buddy Wires, and Anchors
Presenter
Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD, FSCAI, Minneapolis Heart Institute® - Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN
Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD, FSCAI, Minneapolis Heart Institute® - Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN
Learning Objectives:
- Utilize the appropriate tool for the appropriate situation.
- Discuss guide extension: safe use over a balloon, limiting injections through, compatibility with devices.
- Microcatheter selection, how to exchange (e.g. de-air after trap), spinning to advance (which not to spin), and select Buddy wires/specialty wires, balloon anchoring and balloon assisted tracking techniques
Keywords: Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) and Complications