{"id":3674,"date":"2010-10-04T16:23:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T20:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:47","slug":"widespread-routine-use-of-closure-devices-not-recommended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/10\/04\/widespread-routine-use-of-closure-devices-not-recommended\/","title":{"rendered":"Widespread Routine Use of Closure Devices Not Recommended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arterial closure devices (ACDs) &#8220;have the potential to improve patient comfort,&#8221; but the current evidence isn&#8217;t sufficient to support routine use after cardiac catheterization, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/cgi\/reprint\/CIR.0b013e3181f9b345v1\">a scientific statement from the AHA published in <em>Circulation<\/em><\/a>. Led by Manesh Patel, the committee analyzed the data and concluded that although it is &#8220;reasonable&#8221; to consider using an ACD after catheterization, &#8220;the available evidence is limited to specific patient populations, often studied in nonrandomized fashion, without methodological follow-up and standardized clinical outcomes. This limits the widespread routine use of these devices in clinical practice.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arterial closure devices (ACDs) &#8220;have the potential to improve patient comfort,&#8221; but the current evidence isn&#8217;t sufficient to support routine use after cardiac catheterization, according to a scientific statement from the AHA published in Circulation. Led by Manesh Patel, the committee analyzed the data and concluded that although it is &#8220;reasonable&#8221; to consider using an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1,9],"tags":[455],"class_list":["post-3674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiac-imaging","category-general","category-interventional-cardiology","tag-closure-devices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}