#177 Interventional Radiology (IR) 101: 5 Pearls Segment

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Core IM Team

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

🔹When is an U/S vs. CT vs. MRI helpful before consulting Interventional Radiology?

🔹What factors go into an IR pre-op evaluation?

🔹 When do drains go in, and when do they come out?

🔹 When a patient has trouble with a drain, what are things you can do before calling IR?

🔹 What does outpatient IR follow up entail, and what does a capping trial of PCN tubes entail?

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1:21.6	And with that, let's get into the episode. There is a saying in interventional radiology that
1:25.9	IR is like bank robbery.
1:27.9	You have to figure out how to get in, get out, and get away with it.
1:30.9	That's Dr. Jeffrey Weinstein, an interventional radiologist at Beth Israel.
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