Cardiac catheterization is a medical procedure performed by the doctor to diagnose the condition of the heart and blood vessels and the extent of expansion or narrowing and the strength of blood pumping through the arteries and veins and is through the introduction of a tube is very thin with vessels and the extent of expansion or narrowing and the strength of blood pumping through the arteries and veins and is through the introduction The tube is very thin with blood vessels in the thigh or hand and most spread through the thigh where the doctor inject dye colored material facilitates the taking of sections of imaging through X-ray, and the process of catheterization local anesthesia of the patient and called (diagnostic catheter).
When does a doctor decide to have a heart catheter?
When the clinical examination is performed and the doctor can not give any diagnosis, he decides to perform a therapeutic heart catheter to determine the capacity of the vessels and where the narrow spaces are. He uses the balloon at the end of the catheterization process, which in turn leads to the expansion of the narrow vessels. In some cases, The catheter may also be used to treat certain congenital heart defects, such as heart opening, or to regulate heart rate or to treat a heart valve.
How long does a heart catheter need?
Short catheterization is needed for a short period of between 15 minutes and thirty minutes. A tube is inserted through the artery to reach the coronary artery, where the vasodilatation is detected and does not need to be overnight, but the patient remains lying on his bed for hours of time to ensure his health. Any complications in the thigh and place of the wound and after which the patient can leave on the same day.
The therapeutic catheter that comes in the second stage depends on several factors such as the physical structure of the patient and the strength and age of the patient and the extent of narrowing in the vessels and arteries or treatment of some heart openings may take several hours depending on the situation and patients who leave the same day if the process is easy and fast and some The other may be forced to stay overnight for a full day and then leave.
What is the difference between cardiac catheterization and open heart surgery?
During a diagnostic catheter, the doctor may discover that an entire artery is blocked. The closed arteries may not allow the balloon to carry out the enlargement. The doctor is obliged to discuss open heart surgery with a patient to avoid many heart problems, which in turn can lead to fatal heart attacks or there may be Dysfunction in the work of some valves as a failure or leakage or general weakness in the case of the doctor then requires open heart surgery to treat the types of imbalance and avoidance and often performed cardiac catheter diagnostic before the open heart operation.
What actions are taken before the catheterization process?
Cardiac tests are performed on the patient and laboratory tests are performed on the liver and blood tests. Cross-sectional images are taken and the heart rate is examined. When the doctor decides to perform the catheterization, the patient is warned to abstain from eating for more than eight hours and to refrain from taking certain medications and certain instructions for processing For the catheterization and insertion of the tube, after completion, the anabol is withdrawn from the trachea and the wound is stitched and sterilized.