Arterial Embolotherapy (WK11)

5. Describe indications and methods for balloon dilatation and stenting in the airways. Coordinator: Jeffrey Pollak, MD John R. Haaga, MD Debra Ann Gervais, MD Ann Covey, MD

Jeffrey Pollak, MD Robert E. Barton, MD Michael A. Braun, MD

Coordinator: Richard L. Duszak, J 1', MD Richard L. Duszak, Jr, MD Katharine L. Krol, MD Gary P. Siskin, MD Michael R. Mabry Michael J. Edwards, MD

Michael C. Brunner, MD Dawn Hopkins Gary S. Dorfman, MD Catherine M. TUite, MD Walter C. Blackham, MS, RT(R)

COMPREHENSIVE CARE IN THE IR SUITE (WK06)

CODING PROCEDURAL TERMINOLOGY (CPT): UNDERSTANDING EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT (E&M) (WK09)

Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop, the attendee should be able to:

Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop, the attendee should be able to:

1. Test his/her clinical knowledge base against a panel of experts by participating in a series of interactive clinical vignettes. 2. Discuss how to provide comprehensive care in and out of the procedure suite. 3. Demonstrate better understanding of the clinical management of hypertensive emergency, anti-platelet therapy, lipid lowering therapy, oral hypoglycemics, dysrythmia, and common drug interactions.

1. Identify appropriate documentation required to

Coordinator: Frank A. Morello, Jr, MD Eric M. Walser, MD Gary P. Siskin, MD Michael C. Soulen, MD H. Bob Smouse, JVID Kyran Dowling, MD

Michael Katz, MD Eric G. Dolen, MD John E. Arony, MD Parrick C. Malloy, MD Frdnk A. Morello, MD

bill Medicare for all evaluation and management services. 2. Identify the three key components for documentation of E & M services provided during an initial patient encounter. 3. List modifiers which can be used when E & M services are performed on the same day as the radiology procedure. 4. List the additional documentation requirements when providing E & M services as a consultant. Coordinator: James L. Swischuk, MD Richard L. Duszak, Jr, MD James L. Swischuk, MD

Timothy C. Goeltzen, MD Claudia A. Murray

SEDATION AND ANALGESIA (WK10) CODING PROCEDURAL TERMINOLOGY (CPT): BEGINNER (WK07) Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop, the attendee should be able to: 1. Assimilate the nomenclature and concepts fun-

damental to interventional radiology coding. 2. Develop a framework for improving a practice's coding and billing operations. Coordinator: Richard L. Duszak, Jr, MD David Sacks, MD Walter C. Blackham, MS, RT(R)

Richard L. Duszak, Jr, MD

CODING PROCEDURAL TERMINOLOGY (CPT): ADVANCED (WK08) Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop, the attendee should be able to: 1. Integrate new CPT codes into your practice's billing operations. 2. List new recommendations regarding existing CPT codes. 3. Identify areas of controversy and confusion in interventional radiology CPT coding.

Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop, the attendee should be able to: 1. Describe the criteria used in the selection of patients for conscious sedation and the essential elements for monitoring patients during and after the procedure. 2. List the common medications used for sedation and pain management, including strategies to minimize their adverse effects. 3. Outline the use of intravenous patient-controlled analgesic pumps, continuous epidural infusion, and regional anesthesia for pain control during and after interventional procedures. 4. Recognize the sedation of the pediatric patient. 5. Identify the JCAHO requirements regarding conscious sedation and advice on their implementation in the interventional suite. Coordinator: Charles E. Ray, Jr, MD James Haskew Turner, Ill, MD Jan Namyslowski, MD

John G. Santilli, MD Kevin Dickey, MD

ARTERIAL EMBOLOTHERAPY (WK11) Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop, the attendee should be able to: P323

1. Describe principles of arterial embolotherapy

including choice of embolic agents, level and site of embolic material delivery, and means of deploying the selected embolic agent 2. Describe the composition and mechanism of action of various embolic agents. 3. Discuss utility and applications of embolotherapy in various clinical scenarios including gastrointestinal hemorrhage (both upper and lower GI bleeding), hemoptysis, trauma (especially pelvic), solid organ bleeding due to tumor or trauma, obstetrical and gynecological hemorrhage and tumor devascularization.

5. Discuss the current status of other gastrointestinal interventions such as cecostomy tube placement. Coordinator: Peter N. Waybill, MD Manish Kwnar Vanna, MD Peter N. WaybiJI, MD

Matthew S. Johnson, MD Richard L. DUS7.ak, Jr, MD

Anthony W. Allen, MD

Daniel B. Brown, MD

GRANT WRITING (WK14) Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop, the attendee should be able to:

4. Describe "post-embolization syndrome" and its 1. Describe what information to include in each

treatment.

5. List possible complications of embolotherapy and means (0 minimize these complications. Coordinator: Jeer Sandhu, MD Neil Denbow, MD Robert K. KerJan, Jr, MD

Susan W. Weeks, MD Jeet Sandhu, MD

iliad Salem, MD, MBA

John]. Borsa, MD

major section of a grant application. 2. List the criteria that reviewers use to evaluate

grant applications. 3. Recognize the most common pitfalls in grant writing and how to avoid them. 4. List funding sources for interventional radiology. Coordinator: Wendy Landow, l\1PH

VENOUS EMBOLOTHERAPY (INCLUDING TREATMENT OF VARICOSE VEINS) (WK12)

Paul M. Consigny, PhD

Wendy Landow, MPH

Gordon Mclennan, MD

Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop, the attendee should be able to:

GYNECOLOGIC INTERVENTIONS (WK15)

1. Recognize common risks of interventional radi-

Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop, the attendee should be able to:

ology to both patient and operator, and describe practical strategies for minimizing such risks. 2. Describe current and promising future interventional radiology techniques and devices and anticipated outWffies for treatment of venous disorders; discuss the underlying anatomic, physiologic, and pathophysiologic sub&1rates influencing application of these techniques. 3. Become familiar with basic techniques, indications and contraindications for embolotherapy as applied to venous abnormalities.

1. Compare the indications and contraindications for fallopian tube recanalization, ovarian vein

embolization, and uterine fibroid embolization procedures. 2. Describe the standard techniques applied during fallopian tube' recanalization, ovarian vein

embolization, and uterine fibroid embolization procedures and when variations in technique are reqUired.

3. Identify the different strategies applied to the management of patients after the uterine fibroid embotization procedure.

Coordinator: Robert]. Rosen, MD

Robert]. Rosen, MD Robert J. Min, MD Patrida E. BlIlTOWS, MD

Wayne F. Yakes, MD Robert I. White, Jr, MD Dominic Carl Yee, MD

GASTROINTESTINAL IR: TECHNIQUES ANO MANAGEMENT (WK13)

4. Recognize the complications potentially associated with the uterine fibroid embolization procedure and the steps taken to manage patients experiencing these complications. Coordinator: Gaty P. Siskin, MD

Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop, the attendee should be able to:

Mahmood K. Razavi, MD Keith M. Sterling, MD John C. lipm.an, MD Robert L. Worthington-Kirsch,

1. Describe the indications and contraindications,

Howard B. Chrisman, MD

Steven J. Smith, MD Lindsay Machan, MD Richard Shlansky-Goldberg, MD Robert T. Andrews, MD Howard M. Richard, MD

pre-procedural evaluation, and pre-proc<,dural preparation for percutaneous gastrostomy (G) and gastrojejunostomy (GJ) tube placement. 2. Describe the techniques used for percutaneous G and G] tube placement. . 3. List the various G and G] tllbes available for placement and replacement. 4. Describe appropriate post-G or -G]-tube-place-

Scoo C. Goodwin, MD Gerald A. Niedzwiecki, MD

Amy S. Thurmond, MO James B. Spies, MD

MD

ment device and patient management.

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UNOERSTANDING AND AVOIDING THE OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS OF IR PRACTICE (WK16) Objectives: Upon completion of this workshop, the attendee should be able to: