TCT-102 Association Between Operator Experience with Access Type in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Outcomes in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

In those RCTs, however, the MACE and mortality rates were unexpectedly high when trans-femoral access (TFA) was used by redial experts (REs), leading to concern that the significant difference favoring TRA could have been a result of an increased incidence of adverse events in the TFA arms. [...]we performed a network meta-analysis comparing adverse events across four groups (TFA and TRA by both REs and non-radial experts [NREs]).