5. Cath lab
• Single plane cath lab
• Furnished with all necessary equipment
• May have to deal with unexpected technical challenges and complications
• Device stock
• Retrieval equipment: snares, bioptomes
• Surgical backup
6. Sedation/Anaesthesia
• In Children usually general anaesthesia (GA) or Total Intraventous
anesthesia (TIVA)
• Also depends on use of TTE, TEE or ICE (not available in Nepal)
• In adolescents and adults, local anaesthesia (LA) is good enough if the
procedure is under TTE guidance
7. Intraprocedural Echo
• TTE or TEE in our scenario (@ SGNHC)
• Mostly we use TTE (>90% cases)
• TEE is useful where TTE image is suboptimal or when you are in doubt
or for doing complex ASDs
• Echo shows
• Device position and stability
• Capture of rims
• Behaviour of device during wiggling
• Adjacent struture like SVC, IVC and pulmonary veins
• AV valve regurgitation
• Pericardial Effusion
8. Access
• Usually femoral venous access is sufficient (e.g., 6 Fr. RFV sheath).
• Arterial access if arterial pressure needs to be monitored or for
hemodynamic evaluation
• Heparin 100 U/kg
• IV antibiotics – e.g. Cefazolin
9. Hardware
• Right coronary catheter (JR) or
Multipurpose (MP) catheter
• Floppy tip terumo wire
• Exchange length Amplatz super stiff wire
10. Crossing through ASD by
floppy wire followed by JR
catheter
Parking of amplatz exchange
length stiff wire
11. Crossing the ASD by JR
catheter with out wire
Trying to park into
pulmonary vein
12. Removing the JR catheter
Exchange with Long sheath
with dilator
13. Delivery system
• Differs with device size and brand
• It’s recommended to see product catalog
MEMOPARTTM ASD OCCUDER
Long (delivery) sheath
Dilator
Delivery cable
Device loader
Y-connector
Classification of rims around the ASD.
A. Rim toward the coronary sinus
B. Inferior-posterior rim (toward the inferior vena cava)
C. Posterior rim (toward the pulmonary veins)
D. Superior-posterior (toward the superior vena cava)
E. Anterior-superior (toward the aorta)
F. Inferior (toward the AV valves).