“…For detailed best practices, the reader is referred to the recent updated e-book published by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. 9 In this issue of the Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Kreutz et al 10 provide contemporary data on the safety of femoral access and closure. The authors are to be commended for these large, real-world, multicenter data that incorporate clinical variables and bleeding outcomes with standardized definitions as per the National Cardiovascular Data Registry CathPCI registry.…”