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Am J Emerg Med
February 2023
Christus Spohn Shoreline, Emergency Department, Corpus Christi, TX 78404, USA.
Junctional hemorrhage remains a difficult source of bleeding to control with the groin being the most common location. FemoStop devices are a well established tool for achieving hemostasis in post cardiac catheterization femoral access site hemorrhage. Massive hemorrhage is a traumatic presentation well known to emergency physicians and trauma surgeons alike.
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March 2019
Bart's Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
Aims: We investigated safety and efficacy of a high throughput atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation service within a local non-cardiac centre compared with matched patients at the regional tertiary cardiac centre.
Methods And Results: Patients were consented in clinic and pre-assessed by clerical staff. Locally, other than physicians, staff had no experience of ablation and were trained with simulations.
Arch Cardiovasc Dis
April 2015
Department of Cardiology, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
Background: The benefits of vascular closure devices (VCDs) in the prevention of vascular complications after femoral intervention remain controversial.
Aim: To evaluate the efficiency of collagen plug-based VCDs in the prevention of femoral access complications after balloon aortic valvuloplasty.
Methods: We conducted a prospective analysis of consecutive patients who underwent balloon aortic valvuloplasty by femoral retrograde technique in our centre between 2009 and 2012.
Dtsch Med Wochenschr
March 2007
Frankenwaldklinik Kronach, Abteilung für Innere Medizin.
Background And Objective: Transfemoral arterial access of catheterization requires a method of hemostasis that is always easily and quickly applicable, but also safe, inexpensive and comfortable for the patient. Current methods meet these requirements only in part. The pneumatic pressure-controlled FemoStop system has been described as straightforward and safe.
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