MEDRADSC 3C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Interventional Radiology, Biliary Tract, Venography

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Medical Radiation Sciences
• Course: MEDRADSC 3C03
• Professor: Meaghan Jefferson

Document Summary

Interventional radiology: multidisciplinary department composed of specially trained radiologists, nurses, us, x-ray techs and support staff who perform minimally invasive image guided procedures. Used to treat and diagnoses diseases: patients are referred to family physician or through emerge. Advantages: minimally invasive, avoid surgery, faster recovery, lower cost to the hospital (average hospital stay is a night) Imaging: documentation of procedure: image evidence of where needles and wires ended up, the patient is the #1 priority! Types of procedures: non-vascular, biopsies, done under ultrasound guidance, percutaneous drainage, biliary and urinary interventions, vascular, insertion of central lines and picc lines, stents and graphs, embolization, angioplasty, venography.