Where will the angioplasty be performed?
The angioplasty procedure is performed at a hospital or medical center’s catheterization laboratory, which is a specially equipped X-ray room, not a traditional operating room. Because of the slight risk of serious complications, the AHA/ACC expert guidelines recommend that elective angioplasty procedures only be performed in institutions that have an experienced cardiovascular surgical team available to perform bypass surgery, if necessary. In emergency situation, only certain hospitals have the facilities to accomplish these procedures. Recent studies suggest that results in facilities without surgical back up during acute myocardial infarctions have reasonably good results.
