

Interventional Radiology: A 50 Year Review
Major advances made in interventional radiology are described.
Course ID: Q00424 Category: Radiology Trends for Technologists Modalities: Cardiac Interventional, Vascular Interventional2.0 |
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- Targeted CE
- Outline
- Objectives
Targeted CE per ARRT’s Discipline, Category, and Subcategory classification:
[Note: Discipline-specific Targeted CE credits may be less than the total Category A credits approved for this course.]
Cardiac-Interventional Radiography: 1.00
Procedures: 1.00
Diagnostic and Conduction System Studies: 0.50
Hemodynamics, Calculations, and Percutaneous Intervention: 0.50
Vascular-Interventional Radiography: 1.00
Procedures: 1.00
Vascular Diagnostic Procedures: 0.50
Vascular Interventional Procedures: 0.25
Nonvascular Procedures: 0.25
Outline
- Introduction
- Patterns of Innovation
- The Early Years
- Treatment of Gastrointestinal Bleeding
- Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty
- Nonvascular Interventions
- Perfecting Tools
- Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts
- Uterine Artery Embolization
- Stent Grafts
- Regional Cancer Therapies
- Summary
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students will:
- understand the benefit of utilizing imaging in interventional radiology
- list advances that helped make procedures safer and tools more durable
- articulate the origin of interventional radiology
- point out what study is used to pre-operatively identify active gastrointestinal bleeding
- define vasoconstrictor
- recognize cardiac side effects of large dose IV vasopressin
- know what types of bleeding angiographers treat
- describe puncture site complications associated with coaxial or dilating catheters
- identify strategies for addressing shortcomings of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty
- note the cause of intra-thoracic lung abscesses
- list tools for interventional imaging that became available in the late 20th century
- state the technology that is gradually replacing digital subtraction angiography
- understand what trans-jugular intrahepatic porto-systemic shunts are used for
- define Budd-Chiari syndrome
- describe how stent grafts became possible
- list the clinical uses for stent grafts