Letter : anxiety score as a risk factor for radial artery vasospasm during radial interventions : a pilot study
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01/01/2014
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I read with interest the article in Angiology that determined the role of anxiety level on radial artery spasm during transradial coronary angiography.1 As the importance of conducting more randomised controlled trials using anxiolytics to define the relation between anxiety and vasospasm was noted by the authors, I offer the following insights for investigators to consider when conducting such research. While previous research has already identified that moderate procedural sedation and opioid analgesia reduces the incidence of vasospasm,2 the identification of risk factors in the present study is hypothesis generating as to how outcomes might be even further improved. It is possible that selectively applying either even more intensive sedation and analgesia or complementary non-pharmacological stress-reducing therapies, such as music therapy or visualisation and attentive behaviour, to patients ‘at-risk’ of vasospasm (women and those with high levels of anxiety prior to the procedure) might lead to even better patient outcomes... |
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SAGE Publications |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/61779/2/61779.pdf DOI:10.1177/0003319713505896 Conway, Aaron (2014) Letter : anxiety score as a risk factor for radial artery vasospasm during radial interventions : a pilot study. Angiology, 65(1), pp. 71-72. |
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Faculty of Health; Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation; School of Nursing |
Palavras-Chave | #110200 CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE AND HAEMATOLOGY #111000 NURSING #radial artery #spasm #anxiety #sedation #percutaneous coronary intervention |
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