In Hospital Outcomes for High-Risk Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) in Patients Referred From a Rural Centre to Metropolitan Sites.

Background: Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ) guidelines recommend elective high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is not performed in sites greater than 1 hour from cardiac surgery.

Methods: In hospital outcomes for all patients from Orange Health Service (OHS) from January 2017 to January 2020 who were transferred electively to tertiary centres in Sydney for high risk PCI were examined.

Results: One hundred and fourteen (114) patients were identified, with 1,259 PCIs performed at OHS over the same period without transfer.