Comparación de la dosis de radiación y cantidad de medio de contraste en acceso radial vs femoral en pacientes sometidos a cateterismo cardíaco en el Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga. Cuenca, enero 2012-diciembre 2013

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to compare the radiation dose and the amount of contrast used between the radial and femoral routes in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization in the hemodynamic department of José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital of Cuenca, in the period from January 2012-December 2013 162 cases with an average age of 63.87 years with the largest age group in patients aged 61 and over with 61.1% were studied; the most frequent in males were 69.8%. 2 types of procedures, as in the case of coronary angiography in 63.6% of cases were performed; Stent Angiography in 12.3% of cases; secondly in 24.1% The radial access approach was the most used and presented advantages over the femoral in the following variables: average procedure time (19.62 min versus 30.86 min); average radiation exposure time (7.31 min versus 10.53 minutes); average radiation dose (mGy 388.98 versus 514.53 mGy) and doses of contrast medium (104 ml versus 119.55 ml); in all these cases mean differences were statistically significant according to the t value calculated everything with 95% confidence.