In general, travelers must have a passport, passport card, an enhanced driverâs license (only available in a few states) or one of the âtrusted travelerâ cards for prescreened travelers. However, there are some exceptions â plus some confusion in regard to cruises.
Angiogram patients. For an angiogram, you'll be taken to the interventional radiology department for the procedure where a nurse will attach monitoring equipment. The doctor will inject a local anesthetic, place a needle into your artery, and thread a flexible wire through the needle into your artery.
This device is a catheter (long plastic tube) that is connected to a plastic and metal reservoir (see the picture below). An interventional radiologist will place the port in your chest. This provider is a doctor or a physician assistant with special training in doing this kind of procedure. When the catheter is placed in your chest, the catheter tip will be in the large vein that empties into your heart.