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Drugs and equipment used where intervention was complicated by coronary perforation
| Device used | |
| Balloon only | 22 (42%) |
| Intracoronary stent | 26 (50%) |
| Thrombectomy device | 0 |
| Rotational atherectomy | 4 (8%) |
| Type of guidewire | |
| Floppy tip (non-hydrophilic) | 22 (42%) |
| Intermediate (non-hydrophilic) | 14 (27%) |
| Standard (non-hydrophilic) | 2 (4%) |
| Hydrophilic | 14 (27%) |
| Heparin dose (U) | |
| 5000 | 13 (25%) |
| 10 000 | 36 (69%) |
| >10 000 | 3 (6%) |
| Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa antagonist | 10 (19%) |
