A simple method of changing clotted intra-arterial catheters.
A simple technique for changing a clotted catheter is presented which has been frequently useful during percutaneous transfemoral coronary angiography. A guide wire is passed through a punched hole in the clotted catheter and a new catheter is inserted over the guide wire after the clotted catheter has been taken out.
D000792:Angiography; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D006801:Humans