{"id":26503,"date":"2023-07-14T00:17:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T04:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stepwards.com\/?page_id=26503"},"modified":"2025-03-21T22:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T02:01:12","slug":"fundamental-technical-skills-in-neurointerventional-radiology-pulse-exam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stepwards.com\/?page_id=26503","title":{"rendered":"Fundamental Technical Skills In Neurointerventional Radiology: Performing a Pulse Exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">OVERVIEW<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Performing a pulse exam is an important part of a pre-procedure assessment.\u00a0<strong>It is meant to document a pulse exam prior to intervention to make sure there is not a complication post procedure which would compromise blood flow to the accesses extremity.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">FEMORAL ACCESS<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>For cases with femoral access it is routine to check the pedal pulses (DP and PT) prior to accessing the femoral artery. If these pulses are not palpable one can try to doppler them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OVERVIEW Performing a pulse exam is an important part of a pre-procedure assessment.\u00a0It is meant to document a pulse exam prior to intervention to make sure there is not a complication post procedure which would compromise blood flow to the accesses extremity.\u00a0 FEMORAL ACCESS For cases with femoral access it is routine to check the &#8230; <a title=\"Fundamental Technical Skills In Neurointerventional Radiology: Performing a Pulse Exam\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stepwards.com\/?page_id=26503\" aria-label=\"More on Fundamental Technical Skills In Neurointerventional Radiology: Performing a Pulse Exam\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P71awf-6Tt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stepwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stepwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stepwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26508,"href":"https:\/\/www.stepwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26503\/revisions\/26508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stepwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}