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To help hospitals transition to more same-day discharge after elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), the American College of Cardiology (ACC) released a checklist on deciding whether an overnight stay is necessary.
Among those factors, it noted, same-day discharge programs must make sure of the safety of the patient by considering:
Availability of a caregiver if needed
Complications during PCI
Plans made for prescription of antithrombotic medications, referral to cardiac rehab
Patient education on how to monitor the catheter access site
The ACC expert consensus decision pathway detailing the checklist was published online in the We re hoping that this does increase the number of centers with same-day discharge [SDD] programs. We basically crowdsourced as many SDD protocols as we could to find common themes among them to fashion the pathway, writing group chair Sunil Rao MD, of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, told