Interventional radiology : a survival guide [E-Book]

Planning safe procedures -- Pre-procedure safety check -- Contrast -- Sedation -- Pain control and analgesia -- Recognition and management of complications -- The interventional radiology clinic -- Essential equipment: puncture needles -- Essential equipment: biopsy needles -- Essential equipment: access kits -- Essential equipment: guidewires -- Essential equipment: catheters -- Essential equipment: microcatheters -- Essential equipment: sheaths and guide catheters -- Essential equipment: taps, hubs and connectors -- Essential equipment: pump injectors -- Essential equipment: snares -- Essential equipment: angioplasty balloons -- Essential equipment: inflation handles -- Essential equipment: stents -- Essential equipment: stent grafts and covered stents -- Essential equipment: inferior vena caval filters -- Essential equipment: embolization -- Essential equipment: drainage catheters -- Essential equipment: ureteric stents -- Principles of imaging guidance for intervention -- Principles of good fluoroscopy and radiation protection -- Principles of vascular access -- Principles of diagnostic angiography -- Principles of using catheters and wires -- Principles of crossing stenoses and occlusions -- Principles of angioplasty -- Principles of stenting and stent-grafting -- Principles of pressure measurement -- Principles of embolization -- Principles of rendezvous and retrieval procedures -- Principles of vascular closure and haemostasis -- Achieving tissue diagnosis -- Treating fluid collections and abscesses -- Treating urogenital vascular conditions -- Treating urological conditions -- Treating gastrointestinal conditions -- Treating biliary obstruction -- Treating cancer -- Achieving angiographic diagnosis -- Treating arterial occlusive disease -- Treating acute limb ischaemia -- Treating aneurysmal disease -- Treating haemorrhage -- Treating haemodialysis access -- Treating venous disease.

What are the must-know aspects to preparing for and performing the most frequently requested diagnostic and therapeutic interventional procedures? Interventional Radiology: A Survival Guide, 4th Edition gives you the information you need to provide safe care in an easy-to-read, concise format. Written by experienced radiologists Drs. H. David Kessel and Iain Robertson, this edition features clear, step-by-step instructions for fundamental skills in this fast-growing field.

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