February 14, 2025

As IRs, we push the boundaries of medicine with image-guided, minimally invasive treatments. Yet, pediatric IR faces hurdles that limit its impact. Awareness remains a challenge, as many referring physicians overlook pediatric IR’s potential. Training opportunities are scarce, leaving gaps in expertise. Infrastructure limitations further restrict access. By advocating for pediatric IR, expanding education, and strengthening collaboration, we can ensure more children receive life-chaning care.

December 20, 2024

Uterine Artery Embolisation (UAE) is one of the most valuable elective treatments that IRs can offer. However, the procedure has always suffered from a relative lack of awareness and exposure, leading to many women potentially missing out on finding out about it, or even worse not finding an IR that can perform it. Data to support safety and efficacy of UAE is abundant, and yet it seems that patient access remains problematic. Should the IR community be doing something different?

October 31, 2024

Endovascular management of vascular access is an exciting field that emerged as a valid option for hemodialysis patients extending from stenosis treatment, decloting salvage procedures, hemodialysis catheter insertion, and lately to percutaneous arteriovenous fistula creation.

August 23, 2024

We're Spanish interventional radiologists passionate about our field, but we're facing challenges. From training and collaboration to our very identity within medicine, we're questioning the status quo. Join us as we explore the future of IR, where we're gaining confidence, embracing new procedures, and becoming the primary specialists for our patients.

June 21, 2024

Management in our vascular and interventional radiology units is here to stay across all modalities. The first to benefit will be the patients and ourselves. Let's embrace it without fear!

IR around the globe · April 26, 2024

Last January, the IR subspecialty was finally approved by the PT Medical Association and the PT College of Radiology. After creating the Portuguese Society of Interventional Radiology (APRI) in 2018 all Portuguese IRs and all IR teams came together and pushed IR forward within Radiology and increased IR awareness among other specialties. We still need more lobbying to invest, to have more budgets and to create more IR centres in Portugal. The future is IR!

February 23, 2024

Nowadays we cannot contemplate an interventional radiology team without specialised and recognised nurses. Recognition should not only come from the care units: interventionalists must demand that they occupy the space they deserve and collaborate to ensure that hospital managements consider this specialisation as necessary. Putting the patient at the centre and offering them the best possible alternatives also includes specific attention from nursing, the cornerstone of our work teams.

December 22, 2023

Interventional radiology nurses play a fundamental role, both in the development of procedures and in patient care. The specialisation of the work teams implies technical training and preparation to offer the patient the best possible conditions. This is not feasible if the nursing teams are not fixed, with their own functions and recognised within the units and the hospital.

October 27, 2023

Despite EBIR's current limited recognition in China, I anticipate its future popularity. As a certification allowing interventional radiologists to validate their professional expertise and demonstrate sustained commitment to this rapidly evolving discipline, EBIR is poised to gain prominence in the country.

IR around the globe · August 25, 2023

Thanks to SOBRICE's hard work, and its members, brazilian interventional radiology has advanced quickly as a multidisciplinary specialty, equivalent to major world references, but still restricted to capital capitals and large cities.