First IR #radial case Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Putting into practice all the training UHNM NHS Trust 🏥 from David Wells Kader Allouni Fatemeh Sakhinia amongst others in a previous life! Hopefully the first of many

Really important paper that all IR trainees and consultants should read.

A life lesson..

601 CT head scans. 5 bleeds, 4 of which predicted by high risk status. So 596 people no benefit from scan and many will have had unseen harm- a trip to ED, fear or pain in scanner, a hospital stay, ‘deconditioning’ aka ‘got worse in hospital’ - we need to change this!

The Role of Drug-Coated Balloon in Haemodialysis Arteriovenous Fistula Stenosis Management 👉link.springer.com/article/10.100… Read the special section on #dialysisaccessinterventions ✨cvironline.org/read/special-s…

Please show your amazing support for jon chambers in the Royal College of Anaesthetists council elections. Working with Jon for over 14 years now; I’ve seen just how hard he works to ensure the welfare and education of our trainees, advocates for patients, staff & college rcoa.ac.uk/news/candidate…

Great work from A/Prof Jim Koukounaras, Dr Catarina Ang and the Alfred IR team investigating uterine artery embolisation for endometriosis #endometriosis #uterus #embolization #interventionalradiology IRSA youtu.be/Q-hM2pbEmQE?si…

📅 2024 Interventional Radiology – The Basics (IRTB) on May 16th and 17th in Plymouth. 🏥 🚀 Register your interest early by emailing [email protected] and secure your spot on the early bird booking list. For more details visit: tinyurl.com/yv6wpdsn

IN.PACT AV Access Randomized Trial of Drug-Coated Balloons for Dysfunctional Arteriovenous Fistulae: Clinical Outcomes through 36 Months - Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology jvir.org/article/S1051-…

Royal College of Anaesthetists Dr Claire Shannon consultantplatinumpizza™ Dr Done Anaesthetists United Well would you have a look at this. Cat is out of the bag it seems. This is exactly what we were afraid would happen. Some trusts couldn’t care less about trainees. chng.it/jdwCrBWTqL

Great to see IR make the bbc news page, even better that it’s our own team (only shame is that the article omitted the words “interventional Radiology!”) bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

More than 200 people received ‘life-changing’ clot-busting stroke treatment at UHNM in 2023. The figure for mechanical stroke thrombectomies is the highest ever, and 4 times the number of patients treated when the service launched in 2009. Full story ➡️ bit.ly/48ZNozI

Setting up for filming Radial day case UFE this morning. Thank you to the patients who consented to be filmed, Emily &Ollie Radcliffe Cardiology & Sue, Evi & Gaelle from Terumo Interventional Systems The British Society of Interventional Radiology UHNM IMAGING UHNM NHS Trust 🏥

The Midlands Imaging Training Academy at County Hospital has been nominated for three HSJ Awards. 🏆 Digital Team of the Year 🏆 Digital Innovator of the Year 🏆 Enhancing Workforce Engagement, Productivity and Wellbeing through Digital Read more ➡️ uhnm.nhs.uk/latest-uhnm-ne…

RIP the great Rob Burrow We had the privilege of giving Rob Burrow CBE and his wife Lindsey Pride of Britain awards last yr An incredible man and a truly incredible family My heart goes out to them 🖤 With the deepest respect 🖤

Rishi Sunak heckled during his speech. "The NHS is disintegrating.... 2,500 GPs are unemployed because of your policies... 37,000 Gps will not vote Tory... you cannot employ lesser qualified people instead of GPs... Sunak: "🤣... I worked very hard in my mum's pharmacy.."