Editing Endovascular access (section)

== Choice of site ==

* '''Consider:'''
** Appropriateness for procedure - size, location
** Ability to obtain haemostasis afterwards - seal with manual compression/closure device
*** Difficult factors: significant calcification; small diameter vessels
** Ability to safely convert to open if there is a complication
** Ensuring that cannulation of that site will have minimal adverse effects on the tissue being supplied by the access vessel
*** Rarely an issue for diagnostic procedures
* Options:
** CFA most common, followed by brachial and radial artery (when a smaller-calibre device can be used and femoral access is disadvantageous)
** Popliteal and tibial can be used for lower extremity interventions, but rarely first choice, and not considered for diagnostic-only procedures
** Others: carotid, subclavian, axillary, iliac