When you encounter a significant challenge or complication during cardiac catheterization and PCI calling one or more experienced operators can help find the best possible solution. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcimanual/message

Why measuring LVEDP can literally save your patient's life! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcimanual/message

How to make the cath lab activation an inspirational experience. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcimanual/message

Why being in the cath lab is never boring! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcimanual/message

Why you should look at the pressure waveform before and after every injection. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcimanual/message

Every catheterization case is an experiment. How to maximize the likelihood of success. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcimanual/message

Looking at the various inputs during cardiac catheterization and PCI should not merely mean directing our eyes towards them. Looking should be the precursor of seeing, i.e. understanding what these inputs (ECG, pressure waveform, angiogram, etc) mean and what (if anything) should be done about them. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcimanual/message

Efficient PCI can improve the success and safety of the procedure. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcimanual/message

Failure is not the opposite of success - in contrast, failure is often a requirement for success. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcimanual/message

Cardiac catheterization and PCI is a team effort. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcimanual/message

How do you know that you are practicing interventional cardiology in the best possible way? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcimanual/message

Sometimes the simplest part of the procedure may become the most complex. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcimanual/message

The importance of communication --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcimanual/message

Fixing small problems before they become more difficult to manage. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcimanual/message

What was the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the creation of the PCI Manual? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pcimanual/message

This podcast describes the 14 steps involved in performing percutaneous coronary intervention: 1. Planning 2. Monitoring 3. Medications 4. Access 5. Engagement 6. Angiography (with the exception of the “zero contrast PCI”, although the latter still requires a prior angiogram) 7. Determine target lesion(s) 8. Wiring 9. Lesion preparation 10 Stenting 11. Vascular closure 12. Coronary physiology 13. Intracoronary imaging 14. Hemodynamic support The following steps are not always performed: •...