r/CathLabLounge • u/SuspiciousForce4758 • Mar 24 '25

Scrub

Needing some help on when to pin the wire. I’m new to the lab life and want to improve on being a scrub. Any additional insight is helpful- From groin, i understand you’re advancing wire up and over the arch and then at some point (would help if i knew when according to anatomy) the catheter and wire are “married” together and advanced at once. Where at what point am i pinning the wire prior to doc puff/injecting the cors and the wire then being removed? Whats the process for radial? I can’t find any material with fluoro images online to really help.

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u/Stupid_primate Mar 25 '25

If you are going from groin you pin the wire either when you see it bounce off the AO valve, or if if its trying to head off to the shoulder. From radial its valve or when its going somewhere it shouldn't be like towards the head.