Description
Written from inside the cath lab
Interventional texts written by people who no longer scrub tend to be recognisable — strong on evidence, thin on the moment when the wire will not cross. This collection is written by a practising interventional cardiologist and weighted accordingly: the technical chapters carry the detail a fellow actually needs, and the complication chapters read as first-hand accounts because they are.
The Academy interventional track
This is the designated reading for members entering interventional training, taken alongside supervised case volume rather than instead of it. The Academy’s position is that the reading should run slightly ahead of the case mix — a fellow should have read the bifurcation chapter before the first bifurcation, not after it — and the collection is sequenced to make that possible.
What it covers
Vascular access, radial and femoral, with the closure and complication management each demands. Diagnostic angiography and lesion assessment. Physiological assessment — FFR, iFR and the situations where the number misleads. Intravascular imaging, IVUS and OCT, and the current state of the evidence on imaging-guided PCI. Lesion preparation including calcium modification. Bifurcation and left main strategy against the SYNTAX and EXCEL data. Chronic total occlusion algorithms. Acute coronary intervention. Structural procedures at fellow level.
Complication management is given its own substantial weight: no-reflow and slow flow, coronary perforation graded by severity, dissection, retroperitoneal haemorrhage, stent thrombosis both acute and subacute, and equipment entrapment. Each is written as a sequence of actions rather than a description of the problem.
Antithrombotic strategy
DAPT duration, de-escalation and the triple-therapy question are covered against the trials that determine current guidance — TWILIGHT, AUGUSTUS, PIONEER AF-PCI, MASTER DAPT — with the reasoning laid out rather than compressed into a recommendation.
For
Interventional fellows, cardiology residents entering the cath lab, and consultants updating technique.
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