12 NUERSING MANAGEMENT RADIAL ACCESS WITH COMPRESSION BADAGE APPLICATION


 Radial access is now a diagnostic approach increasingly used in hemodynamics rooms, from the election procedure to primary emergency angioplasty Such access certainly guarantees minor bleeding complications, above all but ensures the patient a better comfort and well-being.
 Nursing management of post-procedure radial vascular access is extremely important and early The radial approach according to Seldinger, requires, at the end of the procedure, except in special cases, the removal of the vascular valve introducer, usually of 5 or 6 French caliber, and to carry it out, the compression dressing must be taut.
 This dressing can be done with mechanical compression means, see the air cushion bracelet, both with the classic and traditional elastic compression bandage.
 The work will show how, in our laboratory, using the traditional dressing consistently, we used two types of dressing.
 The classic one made with tensoplast, and the other using self-adhesive gauze bandages.
 In both the packaging is custom, with the difference that the first is performed by two nurses while the second is performed only by one nurse