Post Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI) Complications – When to Take the Patient Back to the Lab

Summary

Sukh Nijjer discusses post-PPCI complications, the management of these complications, and when to take patients back to the lab, with case examples

• Vascular complications - particularly related to transfemoral procedures
• Drug-related complications - anaphylaxis, contrast nephropathy, thrombocytopenia,
• Stent-related complications - stent thrombosis, coronary dissection
• Infarction-related complications - VSD, MR, pulmonary oedema, pericardial effusion, ventricular rupture
• Arrhythmia-related complications - VT, CHB