title: Making sense of ... cardiac catheterisation.
abstract: Cardiac catheter studies (CCS) are an invasive diagnostic test for heart disease. It involves passing one of various cardiac catheters via a main artery into the heart under local anaesthetic. The catheter can then be used to inject radio-opaque fluid into the patient's coronary arteries and heart chambers for serial X-rays or video recording. Samples of blood or tissue can also be obtained and pressures across heart valves can be recorded. This paper describes the procedure and the nurse's role.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rogers
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans