[Cardio Delirium Day: national study on the prevalence of delirium in Italian cardiology wards].

Background: To date delirium prevalence in the adult acute Italian hospital cardiac population is unknown. In a multicenter study, we assessed the prevalence of delirium over a single day among a population of patients admitted to acute cardiac hospital wards in Italy.

Methods: This is a point prevalence study (called "Cardio Delirium Day") which involved 55 Italian cardiologic centers (23 North, 18 Central, 12 South, 2 Sardinia) that collected data on 152 patients older than 65 years hospitalized on March 15, 2023.

[Clinical risk management: a new frontier for Italian Cardiology].

Patient safety is the moral and ethical responsibility of healthcare professionals, representing a constantly evolving field in industrialized countries whose key factors are sustainability, training and prevention. Clinical risk management is primarily concerned with systems issues, but people are of paramount importance to effective teamwork and leadership. Hospitals have recently been urged to adopt the methods of high-fidelity organizations to identify and change ineffective practice patterns: recognizing that little things that go wrong are early warning signs of trouble, near miss and errors become information about the health of systems and learn from them.

Drug-Eluting Balloon for Below the Knee Angioplasty: Five-Year Outcome of the DEBATE-BTK Randomized Clinical Trial.

Background: The aim of this study is to evaluate the 5-year clinical outcome of the DEBATE-BTK (Drug-eluting balloon for below-the-knee angioplasty evaluation) trial.

Methods: The DEBATE-BTK was a single-center, randomized trial that enrolled 132 diabetic patients with critical limb ischemia. Subjects were randomized 1:1 to DCB or plain old balloon angioplasty (POBA).

Long-term mortality in patients undergoing lower-limb revascularization with Paclitaxel eluting devices.

Background: Paclitaxel-eluting devices (PED) reduce restenosis and target lesion revascularization (TLR) in femoropopliteal intervention. Recent data suggest a two-fold increased long-term mortality in patients treated with PED. The aim of our study is to evaluate if endovascular therapy (EVT) with PED increases mortality risk in patients with symptomatic lower limb peripheral artery disease (PAD) compared to non-eluting devices (NED).

Randomized Controlled Trial of Acotec Drug-Eluting Balloon Versus Plain Balloon for Below-the-Knee Angioplasty.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy and safety of the Litos drug-coated balloon (DCB) versus plain old balloon angioplasty (POBA) for reduction of late lumen loss (LLL) in patients with critical limb ischemia undergoing below-the-knee (BTK) intervention.

Background: Restenosis after balloon angioplasty of BTK arteries approximates 70%. Previous studies of DCBs in BTK arteries produced conflicting results.