This is an essential, practical guide to the equipment and techniques of everydayinterventional radiology. Each procedure is explained in a logical, step-by-step fashion with clear practical advice on how to ensure a successful outcome. Top tips and troubleshooting guides provide the trainee radiologist with often overlooked hands-on clinical knowledge. Conceptual line drawings, bullet points and symbols such as alarm bells will be used throughout the book to illustrate key points.
Section 1 General Principles of angiography and intervention
1 Basic Principles of Intervention Contrast Sedation Drugs used in interventional radiology
Section 2 Vascular Intervention
Angiography - Getting the picture Equipment for angiography Catheters and sheaths Guidewires Other essential equipment Vascular access Complications of angiography and vascular intervention Diagnostic angiography Angioplasty Stents and stent grafts - Where, when and how Thrombolysis and thrombectomy - techniques, regimes and equipment Embolization Venous intervention Haemodialysis access - Imaging and intervention Foreign body retrieval - techniques and clinical scenarios
Section 3 Non-vascular intervention
Imaging guidance for intervention Equipment for non-vascular intervention Biopsy and drainage Percutaneous renal intervention Biliary intervention Percutaneous fluoroscopic gastrostomy Oesophageal stenting