<div ng-repeat="item in XocsCtrl.sections" ng-class="{'early-item': $index < 2}" class="s-content ng-scope early-item"> <div data-once-html="item"> <p id="hl0000044" class="ng-scope"></p> <blockquote id="hl0000045" class="displayed-quote ng-scope">“ <i> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man </i> .” <span class="displayed-quote__source"> — George Bernard Shaw </span></blockquote> <p class="ng-scope"></p> <p id="hl0000049" class="ng-scope">Vascular access site complications are the Achilles' heel of interventional cardiology. Given that a strong correlation exists between major bleeding complications and adverse outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) [ <button class="j-inline-reference inline-reference" data-refid="bb0005" id="refInSitubb0005"> 1</button> ], interventional cardiologists have adopted strategies to mitigate vascular access site complications, including utilization of radial access. It has taken over 30 years for the radial artery to become widely accepted as the primary access site for coronary angiography and interventions. Nearly a decade ago, the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association/Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions guidelines gave radial access a Class IIa, Level of Evidence A recommendation for reduction of access site complications [ <button class="j-inline-reference inline-reference" data-refid="bb0010" id="refInSitubb0010"> 2</button> ]. Building on this recommendation, the European Society of Cardiology updated its guidelines in 2013 to include radial artery as the preferred access site for PCI [ <button class="j-inline-reference inline-reference" data-refid="bb0015" id="refInSitubb0015"> 3</button> ].</p> </div> </div>