Abstract
Patients with acute coronary syndrome complicated by heart failure and patients after cardiac arrest usually undergo an urgent coronary catheterization and intervention without prior invasive monitoring and detailed examination. Therefore they do not have continuous blood pressure and heart rate invasive monitoring after the transradial procedure and the standard sheath removal with following postprocedural radial artery compression. This has been the reason for another arterial cannulation on ICU with increasing risk of local complications until now. We present results of the pilot phase of our new study with the method of continuous invasive monitoring after proximal or distal transradial procedures via an arterial cannula introduced under the compressive device TR Band. This method enables continuous monitoring without the need of additional arterial access.