A contemporary view of diagnostic cardiac catheterization and percutaneous coronary intervention in the United States: A report from the CathPCI registry of the national cardiovascular data registry, 2010 through june 2011

Gregory J. Dehmer, Douglas Weaver, Matthew T. Roe, Sarah Milford-Beland, Susan Fitzgerald, Anthony Hermann, John Messenger, Issam Moussa, Kirk Garratt, John Rumsfeld, Ralph G. Brindis

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Abstract

Objectives: This study sought to provide a report to the public of data from the CathPCI Registry of the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. Background: The CathPCI Registry collects data from approximately 85% of the cardiac catheterization laboratories in the United States. Methods: Data were summarized for 6 consecutive calendar quarters beginning January 1, 2010, and ending June 30, 2011. This report includes 1,110,150 patients undergoing only diagnostic cardiac catheterization and 941,248 undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Results: Some notable findings include, for example, that on-site cardiac surgery was not available in 83% of facilities performing fewer than 200 PCIs annually, with these facilities representing 32.6% of the facilities reporting, but performing only 12.4% of the PCIs in this data sample. Patients 65 years of age or older represented 38.7% of those undergoing PCI, with 12.3% being 80 years of age or older. Almost 80% of PCI patients were overweight (body mass index <25 kg/m2), 80% had dyslipidemia, and 27.6% were current or recent smokers. Among patients undergoing elective PCI, 52% underwent a stress study before the procedure, with stress myocardial perfusion being used most frequently. Calcium scores and coronary computed tomography angiography were used very infrequently (<3%) before diagnostic or PCI procedures. Radial artery access was used in 8.3% of diagnostic and 6.9% of PCI procedures. Primary PCI was performed with a median door-to-balloon time of 64.5 min for nontransfer patients and 121 min for transfer patients. In-hospital risk-adjusted mortality in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients was 5.2% in this sample. Conclusions: Data from the CathPCI Registry provide a contemporary view of the current practice of invasive cardiology in the United States.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2017-2031
Number of pages15
JournalJournal of the American College of Cardiology
Volume60
Issue number20
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 13 2012
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • cardiac catheterization
  • invasive cardiology
  • National Cardiovascular Data Registry
  • percutaneous coronary intervention

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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