Steri-strips for Reducing Radial Artery Compression Duration (RACC)

The duration of radial artery compression with the use of steri-strips may become much shorter than the duration of using the conventional pneumatic TR band alone for achieving hemostasis. Consequently, the frequency of radial artery occlusion (RAO) will be much lower and post procedure patency of radial artery will be higher along with significant alleviation of pain duration.

Steri-strips is a kind of sterile adhesive tape used to approximate the clean and superficial wound or surgical incision as an alternate of stitch. Its ability to keep the radial puncture site incision approximated will lead to lesser chances of platelet plug disruption or displacement at the entry site and will hasten the process of hemostasis. The use of steri-strips unlikely to have adverse consequences as it is going to be used as an assist to the usual conventional method. In a study conducted by Faravash et al. in 2016, showed significant reduction in the area of post-rhinoplasty ecchymosis in lower lid, malar and cheek soft tissues with use of steri-strips with no reported safety concerns.

Therefore, the aim of this study is to compare duration of radial artery compression by conventional method using the pneumatic TR band alone and with use of surgical steri-strips for achieving hemostasis with patency of radial artery after transradial coronary angiography along with reduction of pain duration due to arterial compression.