EAPCI Patient Initiatives Committee resources

Videos

The EAPCI Patient Initiatives Committee was set up in order to initiate projects that improve patient involvement and understanding of percutaneous interventions. To this end, three patient information videos on coronary angiography, angioplasty, and on TAVR have been produced, with the support of the ESC Patient Group, during the term of the 2018-2020 and 2020-2022 EAPCI Patients Initiatives Committee and are available for use by physicians to assist in explaining these procedures. These videos can be accessed below and although they are not meant as a stand-alone tool for explaining the procedure, they aim to provide adjunctive information about how these procedures are performed, in a visual format. The videos are available in 5 languages.

Angiography

English version

French version

German version

Italian version

Spanish version

Angiography Angioplasty

English version

French version

German version

Italian version

Spanish version

Left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO)

English version

French version

German version

Italian version

Spanish version

Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair of the mitral valve

English version

French version

German version

Italian version

Spanish version

TAVI

English version

French version

German version

Italian version

Spanish version

European Patient Experience in the Catheterization Laboratory (PATCATH)

With engagement from the ESC patient group, a Patient Reported Experience Measurements (PREM) questionnaire was drafted and is now available in ten different languages as the “European Patient Experience in the Catheterisation Laboratory” (PATCATH). The aim of this questionnaire is to understand and improve patients' experience while undergoing catheterisation laboratory-based procedures (angiography and/or angioplasty). The data collected is intended to be used to evaluate and improve the quality of care received by patients in the future. This questionnaire is made available to physicians/hospitals, and no data will be collected by the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions, a branch of the European Society of Cardiology.