Search Tag: interventional radiology
2024 26 Jun
Interventional Radiology (IR) has revolutionized patient care by offering minimally invasive treatments for various conditions, including gastrointestinal and trauma-related bleeding, cancer therapy, and aortic aneurysm repair. Over recent decades, IR has become an indispensable subspecialty within medicine, expanding rapidly across the globe....Read more
2024 26 Jun
Interventional Radiology (IR) has revolutionized patient care by offering minimally invasive treatments for various conditions, including gastrointestinal and trauma-related bleeding, cancer therapy, and aortic aneurysm repair. Over recent decades, IR has become an indispensable subspecialty within medicine, expanding rapidly across the globe....Read more
2024 11 Jun
Interventional Radiology (IR) emerged as a speciality focused on minimally invasive procedures, expanding from its origins in angioplasty and catheter-based therapies to encompass treatments like embolisation and cancer therapy. While officially recognised in 2012, its conceptual roots trace back to 1963. Despite evidence supporting its effectiveness...Read more
2024 11 Jun
Large language models (LLMs) are advanced deep learning models that generate human-like text using a multilayer neural network architecture. Trained unsupervised on vast amounts of text data, they understand word relationships and predict subsequent words in a sequence. ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI and launched on November 30, 2022, is an LLM based...Read more
2024 26 Mar
Other key leaders of SIR and SIR Foundation announced Robert J. Lewandowski , MD, FSIR, an interventional radiologist and professor at Northwestern Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, assumed the office of president of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) on March 26 during the SIR 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting...Read more
2023 20 Dec
Ephraim McDowell Health welcomes advanced practice provider, Sarah Overmyer, PA-C, to the Medical Staff. Sarah will start on January 4 and will join Dr. Cameron Henzman’s practice in interventional radiology located inside the Ephraim McDowell Specialty Center in Danville. Sarah is board-certified and received her bachelor’s degree in natural...Read more
2023 13 Apr
A recent literature review was conducted to assess cost research in interventional radiology (IR). The evidence demonstrated that interventional radiology produces good clinical outcomes whilst also defeating surgery on cost effectiveness. 62 studies published between 2016 and 2022 were included in the study; assessment included adult and pediatric...Read more
2022 25 May
Hy b ri d E v e n t MARCH 27 to JUNE 26, 2022 | digital 25.-27. MAY 2022 | RheinMain Congress Center | Wiesbaden Read more
2020 28 Oct
When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 a pandemic, healthcare facilities were urged to reschedule non-urgent outpatient visits and to accelerate high priority screening and intervention needs due to an expected influx of COVID-19 patients. Elective surgeries were also rescheduled, and elective, urgent inpatient diagnostic...Read more