Interventional Radiology: A Survival Guide (Paperback, 4 ed)

Section 1: Core Interventional Skills

1 Planning safe procedures

2 Pre-procedure safety check

3 Contrast

4 Sedation

5 Pain control and analgesia

6 Recognition / management of complications

7 The Interventional Radiology Clinic

Section 2: Essential equipment and principles of use

8 Puncture needles

9 Biopsy needles

10 Access kits

11 Guidewires

12 Catheters

13 Pump injectors

14 Taps, hubs and connectors

15 Microcatheters

16 Drainage catheters

17 Angioplasty balloons

18 Inflation handles

19 Stent grafts/covered stents

20 Uncovered stents

21 Ureteric Stents

22 Embolization

23 Inferior vena cava filters

24 Snares

Section 3: Principles of intervention

25 Imaging guidance for intervention

26 Principles of non-invasive vascular imaging

27 Principles of good fluoroscopy and radiation protection

28 Principles of Vascular Access

29 Principles of diagnostic angiography

30 Biopsy needles

31 Principles of crossing stenoses and occlusion

32 Principles of angioplasty

33 Principles of pressure measurement

34 Principles of embolization

35 Principles of stenting and stent grafting

36 Principles of rendezvous and retrieval procedures

37 Principles of vascular closure and haemostasis

Section 4: Intervention

38 Achieving tissue diagnosis

39 Treating fluid collections and abscesses

40 Treating arterial occlusive disease

41 Treating acute limb ischaemia

42 Treating aneurysmal disease

43 Treating haemorrhage

44 Treating Venous Disease

45 Treating haemodialysis access

46 Urogenital intervention

47 Treating urinary conditions

48 Treating Gastro-intestinal conditions

49 Treating Biliary Intervention

50 Treating cancer

51 Achieving angiographic diagnosis

52 Rendezvous and retrieval procedures