Description
In this categorical course applications of stent-grafts in peripheral arterial disease will be discussed with particular attention to variable affecting outcome. In addition, comparisons will be made to other alternative technologies and techniques as well as therapeutic options.
Objectives
At the end of this session, the learner should be able to:
1. Review the latest available stent-graft devices and the optimal indications for their use
2. Discuss the indications for the use of stent-grafts in the peripheral circulation
3. Compare and contrast the outcome of stent-grafts vs. alternative options
Mahmood Razavi, MD, FSIR, St Joseph Vascular Institute
Robert Lookstein, MD, FSIR, Mount Sinai Hospital
Description
This online event is a rebroadcast of the popular session, How I Do It: Interventional Oncology, from the SIR 2014 Annual Scientific Meeting. Faculty will be online during the broadcast to interact with attendees and answer questions. During this session, the speakers will present a “How I Do It” approach to the selection of cases which highlights the performance of the most common Interventional Oncology procedures. These will include transcatheter embolization of liver tumors and Y-90 embolization in the liver. In addition, the approach to the most common conditions treated with percutaneous ablation will be presented.
Objectives
After participating in this activity, learners should be able to:
CME credits – 1.00
Available for paid registrants. Click “Upgrade Now” above if you would like to upgrade your registration. Must attend the live program to receive credit—attendance will be tracked and you will be notified when your certificate is available.
Constantinos Sofocleous, MD, PhD, FSIR, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Debra Gervais, MD, FSIR, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Damian Dupuy, MD, Brown University Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI
Matthew Callstrom, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Sanjeeva Kalva, MD, FSIR, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Riad Salem, MD, MBA, FSIR, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
Description
Healthcare delivery in the US is in turmoil as reimbursements decrease, regulations proliferate, and the powers that be attempt to rein in healthcare costs sharply. This session focuses on current and timely issues in the economics of healthcare delivery as they relate to interventional radiologists. Topics include the use of registries to establish the value of IR procedures, updates on the SGR as well as other congressional initiatives to control costs and enhance quality, factors affecting specific practice types including private and academic practices, and the practice of interventional radiology from the perspective of the payer.
Objectives
After participating in this activity, learners should be able to:
CME credits – 1.00
Available for paid registrants. Click “Upgrade Now” above if you would like to upgrade your registration. Must attend the live program to receive credit—attendance will be tracked and you will be notified when your certificate is available.
Jeremy Durack, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Stephen Ferrara, MD, FSIR, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Falls Church, VA
Doug Tardio, CareCoreNational, Bluffton, SC
Arthur Lurvey, MD, Noridian, Los Angeles, CA
Timothy Swan, MD, FACR, FSIR, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI
Katharine Krol, MD, FSIR, Indiana University Health Arnett, Lafayette, IN (ret)
Description
This is a special rebroadcast of the Repositioning IR through Collaboration and Courage session from the SIR 2014 Annual Scientific Meeting. This session included the wildly popular 30th Annual Dr. Charles T. Dotter Lecture, Thirty Miles East of Samar, presented by James F. Benenati, M.D., FSIR. Watch it here.
Objectives
At the end of this session, the learner should be able to:
1. Review the latest available stent-graft devices and the optimal indications for their use
2. Discuss the indications for the use of stent-grafts in the peripheral circulation
3. Compare and contrast the outcome of stent-grafts vs. alternative options
CME credits – 1.00
Available for paid registrants. Click “Upgrade Now” above if you would like to upgrade your registration. Must attend the live program to receive credit—attendance will be tracked and you will be notified when your certificate is available.
Joseph Steele, MD, MMM, FSIR, MD Anderson Cancer Center
John Kaufman, MD, FSIR, Dotter Interventional Institute
Reed Omary, MD, MS, FSIR, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Donna Buckley, MD, FDA, Georgetown University Hospital
Bibb Allen, MD, Birmingham Radiological Group
Daniel “DJ” Sirota, VP, Cook Medical
Description
Renal stenting indications have narrowed dramatically over the last 10 years with three randomized trials demonstrating no improvement in outcomes for patients with multi-drug resistant hypertension. Renal angioplasty and stenting for atherosclerotic occlusive disease remains of potential benefit in certain sub-populations, such as flash pulmonary edema. Case selection, stent selection, and peri-procedure management will be emphasized. The audience will also review techniques for achieving optimal outcomes in renal fibromuscular dysplasia.
Mesenteric stenting is the treatment of choice for most cases of chronic mesenteric ischemia. However, these procedures can be technically challenging due to calcified aortic plaque, early branching, vessel angulation, and long-segment occlusions. Tips and potential pitfalls in mesenteric artery intervention will be discussed. Although the classic clinical trial will be reviewed, clinical presentations are protean, and associated with every permutation of celiac, superior mesenteric artery and inferior mesenteric artery disease. Through case presentations some atypical clinical scenarios will also be discussed.
Objectives
At the end of this session, the learner should be able to:
Identify the indications, contraindications, techniques and outcomes for renal and mesenteric artery stenting
CME credits – 1.50
John Angle, MD, University of Virginia Health System
Speakers
Alan Matsumoto, MD, FSIR, University of Virginia Health System
Daniel Leung, MD, FSIR, Christiana Care Health System
Bulent Arslan, MD, Rush University Medical Center
Christopher Grilli, DO, Christiana Care
Description
Case based review format will be used to demonstrate the important role of Interventional Radiology in the palliation of pain and suffering. Cases will illustrate a wide range of procedures available in the care of patients with the spectrum of pain syndromes, obstruction, symptomatic effusion. Finally, the role of palliative and hospice care in assisting IRs in symptom management will be covered.
Objectives
At the end of this session, the learner should be able to:
1. Describe the specialty of hospice and palliative care and define its role in the relief of pain and suffering
2. Explain the scope and importance of interventional palliative procedures in the care of patients with chronic symptomatic disease like cancer, vascular, and liver disease
3. Identify the adjuvant methods of relieving pain
CME credits – 1.50
Sean Tutton, MD, FSIR, Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital
Description
In this categorical course applications of stent-grafts in peripheral arterial disease will be discussed with particular attention to variable affecting outcome. In addition, comparisons will be made to other alternative technologies and techniques as well as therapeutic options.
Objectives
At the end of this session, the learner should be able to:
1. Review the latest available stent-graft devices and the optimal indications for their use
2. Discuss the indications for the use of stent-grafts in the peripheral circulation
3. Compare and contrast the outcome of stent-grafts vs. alternative options
Mahmood Razavi, MD, FSIR, St Joseph Vascular Institute
Robert Lookstein, MD, FSIR, Mount Sinai Hospital
Description
Extreme IR, Redux. Join us for another packed session of rapid-fire presentations, adventures, triumphs, misses, and all around demonstrations of innovative IR and endovascular solutions to diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas. See what the presenters have done in the face of the unwitnessed, unexpected, or yet to be done before: The IR ex machine.
Objectives
At the end of this session, the learner should be able to:
1. Describe novel and complex embolizations in vascular and nonvascular applications
2. Identify the use of innovative tools in arterial and venous obstruction and bleeding
3. Review the use of implantable devices, such as stents and stent grafts in atypical and/or emergent scenarios
CME credits – 1.50
Ziv Haskal, MD, FSIR, University of Virginia
Sundeep Punamiya, MD, Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Mahmood Razavi, MD, FSIR, St Joseph Vascular Institute
Michael Dake, MD, Falk Cardiovascular Research Center
Richard Towbin, MD, FSIR, Phoenix Hospital for Children
John Angle, MD, University of Virginia Health System
Scott Trerotola, MD, FSIR, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Description
The challenges of today's health care are a significant source of both opportunity and threat. As the field of endovascular medicine matures, there is an urgency for Interventional Radiologists to break free from the stagnation many practices are facing. The time is right. Growth matters now more than ever.
This session will highlight opportunities for growing an IR practice. Each faculty member will share working strategies crucial for success in today's environment. An expert panel will comment on the issues and answer questions.
Objectives
At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:
1.Identify ways to grow and improve several areas of an IR practice
2.Assess the effects of establishing a clinic on patient care and finances
3.Strategize ways to communicate with hospital administration and referring physicians
4.List available marketing tools that are useful for growing your practice
CME credits – 1.50
Jafar Golzarian, MD, University of Minnesota
Janice Newsome, MD, Riverside Hospital
Description
Practice development requires an ongoing effort for all interventional radiologists interested in offering the latest procedures to their patients. This session will review the requirements for incorporating new procedures into a community-based IR practice by presenting the experiences and lessons-learned by interventionalists who were successful with these efforts.
Objective(s)
At the end of the session, the learner should be able to:
1.List the steps required to incorporate new procedures into a community-based IR practice
2.Review the challenges facing interventional radiologists trying to grow their practice in the community setting
3.Outline the resources needed for practice development in an interventional radiology practice
CME credits – 1.50
Gary Siskin, MD, FSIR, Albany Medical College
Terence Hughes, MD, Advanced Radiology Consultants
Description
Several educational cases demonstrating various approaches for liver procedures will be discussed by a multi-disciplinary panel of experts.
Objectives
At the end of this session, the learner should be able to:
1. List clinical indications for liver procedures
2. Describe a multi-disciplinary approach to triaging liver cancer patients
3. Review current literature supporting various approaches to care of the liver cancer patient
Stephen Solomon, MD, FSIR, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Robert Lewandowski, MD, FSIR, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Riad Salem, MD, MBA, FSIR, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Michael Soulen, MD, FSIR FCIRSE, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Jeff Geschwind, MD, FSIR, Interventional Radiology Center- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Thierry De Baere, MD, Institut Gustave Roussy
Alan Hemming, MD, UCSD
Description
In this session, outstanding faculty experts will educate attendees on a broad range of interventions for venous thromboembolic disease. The purpose will be to enable the attendee to stretch his/her knowledge base beyond the basics to be able to address the more challenging and controversial scenarios encountered in clinical practice.
Objectives
At the end of this session, the learner should be able to:
1.Describe the role of anatomic thrombus extent in predicting long-term clinical outcomes of acute DVT
2.Define the role of interventional procedures for the management of DVT and PE in special populations
3.Summarize the current evidence in support of the use of thrombolytic interventions for acute DVT and PE
CME credits – 1.50
Suresh Vedantham, MD, FSIR, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
Elizabeth Spencer, MD, FSIR, RIA Endovascular Center