It was reported that during a coronary orbital atherectomy procedure, the patient coded while using the csi orbital atherectomy device (oad).Prior to this procedure, the patient had been to the facility twice in the week prior for a mycardial infarction and other health related issues.During one of those procedures, the patient had tried to get off the table and coded.The right coronary artery (rca) was completely occluded prior to and during the procedure.The target lesion was 1mm in length, 80% stenotic and located in the left main (lm) artery.The patient was administered precedex at the beginning of the procedure for sedation.After receiving precedex, the patient's blood pressure (bp) was 40/30 and the patient was hemodynamically unstable throughout the procedure.The physician used a 7fr introducer sheath, a bmw guide wire and a 2.5mm exchange balloon to access the lesion.The physician advanced a csi viperwire guide wire across the lesion and the oad was loaded onto it.The physician performed three runs at low for 25 seconds, one run on high for 25 seconds and another run on high for 37 seconds.The physician followed-up atherectomy by performing balloon angioplasty and stent deployment in the lm artery.Adenosine and nipride were administered to help stabilize the patient's bp but the patient went into respiratory distress.Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) was performed and the patient was stabilized.The patient was taken to recovery in stable condition, but expired later that evening after going into cardiac arrest.A request for additional information was made, but only angio images were provided.
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