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https://www.texasheart.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/thi-surgeon-performing-surgery.jpg1600900Radial artery access is when the interventional cardiologist uses the radial artery in the wrist as the entry point for the catheter. The cardiologist threads the thin catheter through the body’s network of arteries in the arm and into the chest, eventually reaching the heart.