Nurses and medical professionals have a vital role in detecting, preventing, and managing complications at the earliest possible stage. They should assess patients for high risk of complications, and plan management strategies to decrease those complications. In many acute and critical care settings, removing femoral sheaths and handling related complications after percutaneous coronary intervention. are primarily the responsibilities of nurses. Therefore, after catheterization procedures, assessing the predictors of required time to achieve optimal hemostasis at the time of trans-femoral arterial sheath removal is essential as one of the final modifiable measures to prevent access site complications. This study will be done in 6 Cardiac catheterization units representing governmental and private hospitals. A sample size of 266 patients will be recruited for the study. data will be analyzed by univariate and multivariate analysis.
This study aims to:~Assess the incidence of hemostasis failure after manual compression of trans-femoral arterial sheath post percutaneous coronary intervention.~Assess the predictors of time to hemostasis achieved by manual compression for trans-femoral arterial sheath post percutaneous coronary intervention.~Assess the association between time to hemostasis and the incidence of vascular access complications after manual compression for trans-femoral arterial sheath removal post percutaneous coronary intervention.~Assess the association between failed hemostasis and the incidence of vascular access complications after manual compression for trans-femoral arterial sheath removal post percutaneous coronary intervention.