Interventional procedures are used by a significant number of medical specialities. Radiation protection (RP) for patients and staff is one of the main issues in Interventional Radiology (IR). UNSCEAR, ICRP and IAEA have devoted significant time over the last years to improve radiation safety in IR. Several combined factors: prolonged localized fluoroscopy, multiple radiographic exposures, and ...

A primary goal of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) is ensuring high quality outcomes and patient safety in vascular and interventional radiology. For more than a decade, SIR, through its Standards Division, has taken a leadership role in improving health care quality through the development of evidence-based standards and clinical practice guidelines for the successful performance ...

The membership of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) (formerly SCVIR) Standards of Practice Committee represents experts in a broad spectrum of interventional procedures from both the private and academic sectors of medicine. Generally, Standards of Practice Committee members dedicate the vast majority of their professional time to performing interventional procedures; as such, they ...

Interventional radiological percutaneous procedures are becoming all the more important in the curative or palliative management of elderly frail patients with multiple underlying comorbidities. They may serve either as alternative primary minimally invasive therapies or adjuncts to traditional surgical treatments. The present report provides a concise review of the most important interventiona...

The rise in the frequency of interventional procedures over recent years is due to the significant benefits of interventional radiology. Patients may be treated as an out-patient for clinical conditions, which would have otherwise needed surgery, i.e., a more traumatic and expensive treatment. In some circumstances, for example in neuroradiology the aneurysm may be inoperable surgically and int...

THE membership of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Standards of Practice Committee represents experts in a broad spectrum of interventional procedures from both the private and academic sectors of medicine. Generally Standards of Practice Committee members dedicate the vast majority of their professional time to performing interventional procedures; as such they represent a valid b...

Alda L. Tam, M.D., Howard J. Lim, M.D., Ignacio I. Wistuba, M.D., Anobel Tamrazi, M.D., Ph.D., Michael D. Kuo, M.D., Etay Ziv, M.D., Ph.D., Stephen Wong, Ph.D., Albert J. Shih, Ph.D., Robert J. Webster III, Ph.D., Gregory S. Fischer, Ph.D., Sunitha Nagrath, Ph.D., Suzanne E. Davis, M.M.S., M.B.A., Sarah B. White, M.D., and Kamran Ahrar, M.D. Departments of Interventional Radiology (A.L.T., K.A....

The collective effective dose to the population from all x-ray examinations in Finland in 2005 was estimated. The numbers of x-ray examinations were collected by a questionnaire to the health care units (response rate 100 %). The effective doses in plain radiography were calculated using a Monte Carlo based program (PCXMC), as average values for selected health care units. For computed tomograp...