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IR Periprocedural management
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You are consulted before a percutaneous liver biopsy in a patient on clopidogrel monotherapy after a coronary …A patient scheduled for percutaneous abscess drainage has an INR of 2.1 on warfarin. What is the generally acc…Below which platelet count is transfusion generally recommended before a high bleeding risk IR procedure such …A patient on apixaban with normal renal function needs an elective TIPS revision (high bleeding risk). How lon…A diabetic patient on metformin with an eGFR of 38 ml/min receives intra-arterial contrast during an angiogram…A patient reports a prior moderate hypersensitivity reaction (diffuse urticaria) to iodinated contrast and nee…Which measure has the strongest evidence for preventing post-contrast acute kidney injury in an at-risk patien…For which procedure is routine antibiotic prophylaxis most clearly indicated?A stable elective patient will receive moderate (conscious) sedation with midazolam/fentanyl for a port placem…A 29-year-old woman, 14 weeks pregnant, has massive haemoptysis needing bronchial artery embolization. Best ap…For which access strategy is post-procedural bed rest primarily required after diagnostic angiography with man…During a prolonged endovascular case you give unfractionated heparin. Which bedside test guides re-dosing?At the end of a case complicated by access-site oozing after full heparinisation, which agent reverses unfract…Two days after uterine artery embolization a patient has pain, low-grade fever (38.2 °C) and leukocytosis of 1…When is it safest to pull a 6F femoral arterial sheath after a case with full heparinisation?Which element belongs in the pre-procedural team time-out for an embolization?During femoral puncture the patient becomes bradycardic (HR 38) and hypotensive with nausea and yawning. First…Thirty seconds after contrast injection the patient develops stridor, hypotension (70/40) and widespread urtic…After an uncomplicated splenic artery embolization for trauma, which set of post-procedure orders is most appr…A haemodynamically unstable patient with an actively bleeding pelvic fracture cannot give consent, and no repr…
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