Description
Diagnose and treat disease with image-guided, minimally invasive procedures under fluoroscopy, ultrasound, and CT. Plan and perform therapeutic and diagnostic interventions, manage periprocedural care and sedation, and interpret imaging to guide therapy and assess outcomes.
- • Perform image-guided vascular and nonvascular interventions, including angiography, angioplasty, and stenting.
- • Perform endovascular embolization for hemorrhage, tumors, and malformations.
- • Perform image-guided biopsies of soft tissue, bone, and organs.
- • Place and manage biliary, urinary, and abscess drainage catheters.
- • Place venous access devices, including PICCs, ports, tunneled, and dialysis catheters.
- • Perform TIPS and other portal venous interventions.
- • Perform tumor ablation (RFA, microwave, cryoablation).
- • Manage catheter-directed thrombolysis and thrombectomy.
- • Treat uterine fibroids, BPH, and varicoceles via embolization or sclerotherapy.
- • Perform vertebral augmentation procedures when indicated.
- • Evaluate patients and imaging to determine procedural candidacy.
- • Obtain informed consent and counsel on risks, benefits, and alternatives.
- • Plan access, devices, anticoagulation, contrast, and sedation.
- • Administer moderate sedation and monitor hemodynamics and airway.
- • Recognize and manage complications, including bleeding and contrast reactions.
- • Interpret intraprocedural imaging and document key findings.
- • Prepare concise procedure reports and postprocedure orders.
- • Coordinate peri-procedural care with referring teams, anesthesia, nursing, and technologists.
- • Provide clinic consultations and longitudinal follow-up.
- • Optimize image quality and radiation dose; approve studies on PACS.
- • Enforce radiation safety, sterile technique, and infection control standards.
- • Lead quality improvement and morbidity/mortality reviews.
- • Teach and mentor residents, fellows, and technologists.
- • Ensure accurate documentation, coding, and billing for procedures.
- • Participate in multidisciplinary conferences and tumor boards.
- • Manage contrast safety, renal prophylaxis, and allergy premedication.
- • Communicate findings and recommendations to clinicians, patients, and families.
- • Maintain suite readiness; select devices and manage inventory.
- • Provide call coverage for emergent IR cases such as trauma and GI bleeding.
- • Track outcomes and complications; contribute to registries and research.
- • Develop clinical pathways and manage peri-procedural anticoagulation/antiplatelet therapy.
- • Coordinate scheduling, preprocedure preparation, and postprocedure disposition.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
