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The Kinked Wire
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) brings you a new podcast on all the topics that impact your practice of IR, with focused subseries reflecting the broad range of the specialty. In each episode, hosts and guests discuss new clinical opportunities, practice management tips, the latest trends and developments in the specialty, and more. Learn more on sirweb.org, irq.sirweb.org, and sirweb.org/kinkedwire. If you have any ideas for topics or guests, or have any other feedback, let us…
Episodes
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IRQ audio 12: Practice Profiles: Rochester Radiology Associates (New York)
Rochester Radiology Associates (RRA) is a private combined DR and IR practice located in upstate Rochester, New York. We combine the world of a traditional…
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JVIR audio abstracts: June 2023
This recording features audio versions of June 2023 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Public Awareness of Interventional…
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Episode 41: The current and future role of artificial intelligence in interventional radiology
"I'm a firm believer in technology, and I think we can engineer our way out of pretty much everything in the world ... And so my hope is that, eventually, we…
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IRQ audio 11: The venous revolution: Where we are and where we’re going
From a basic science perspective, a number of questions remain unanswered regarding deep veins. Venous disease is a cause of morbidity and mortality for…
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JVIR audio abstracts: May 2023
This recording features audio versions of May 2023 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Embolization of the Superior Rectal…
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SIR Today audio: Holistic approaches to a quality and safety program
“When we talk about errors, complications and adverse events, we have to understand that not all poor outcomes are the result of an error. There are so many…
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Episode 40: The potential of advanced practice providers in interventional radiology
“They're our mentors, they're our friends, they're our colleagues, they're our peers. They recognize, 'Hey, we have this need ... you have these skills. How do…
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JVIR audio abstracts: April 2023
This recording features audio versions of April 2023 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Predicting the Safety and Effectiveness…
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SIR Today audio: Transitioning to nonclinical opportunities
“The first rule of networking is to know what you’re looking for, and then to tell everyone. If you tell 50,000 people that you want to sit on a board…
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Episode 39: Stories of interventional radiology: Saving life and limb
"They were able to remove the filter, repair the damage, and get full blood flow ... for the first time in almost 2 years."—Sheila Ehlert, deep vein thrombosis…
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Episode 38: 2022 in review + top IR Quarterly articles of the year
"IamIR" is starting to really reflect the population that we serve, and that is very uplifting for me and a lot of people in the URM Section. —Keith M. Horton…
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JVIR audio abstracts: March 2023
This recording features audio versions of March 2023 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Endovascular Assessment of Liver…
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Episode 37: IRs in focus | Guest: Alda Tam
“There was a big shift from the government perspective about professional societies needing to write and look at evidence in a way that the public could…
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JVIR audio abstracts: February 2023
This recording features audio versions of February 2023 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: A Review of Professional Liability…
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JVIR audio abstracts: January 2023
This recording features audio versions of January 2023 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Racial and Ethnic Disparities among…
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Episode 36: New credentials in IR stroke care | Guest: Marty Radvany
“I look at it kind of like the RPVI, in a sense. That, you know, all of us are interventional radiologists, we all have completed our vascular ultrasound…
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JVIR audio abstracts: December 2022
This recording features audio versions of December 2022 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Healthcare Disparities in…
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IRQ audio 10: Staying power: The tangled path from innovation to clinical application
“In a field like interventional radiology, innovative new devices and procedures are created with regularity. But with so many new approaches being developed…
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IRQ audio 9: Degrees of separation: How additional advanced degrees can open new doors in your IR career
“After college, there’s medical school. And after medical school comes additional training with a residency and (for now) fellowship—but not all IRs stop…
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JVIR audio abstracts: November 2022
This recording features audio versions of November 2022 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Inferior Vena Cava Filter Litigation…
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JVIR audio abstracts: October 2022
This recording features audio versions of October 2022 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Percutaneous Hemodialysis Fistula…
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Episode 35: IRs in focus | Guest: Geogy Vatakencherry
“I don't personally love going too far down the roots of any subspecialty, because then you lose the forest for the trees. And I think ultimately, the more…
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Episode 34: Finding success with an office-based lab in interventional radiology
“So in general, an office-based lab might be more easy to stand up. There might be less cost associated with an OBL and fewer hurdles from the regulatory…
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JVIR audio abstracts: September 2022
This recording features audio versions of September 2022 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Uterine Artery Embolization for…
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Episode 33: A victory for women's health
“I went to my Legislative Council and said, ‘Listen, I need to make an adjustment to the original bill. I think it’s important that, if we’re going to take…
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IRQ audio 8: That's negotiable: 8 tips for negotiating contracts and salaries
“The collaboration between surgeons and interventional radiologists has been at the center of many great advancements in trauma care.” —Jack Sava, MD, FACS…
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JVIR audio abstracts: August 2022
This recording features audio versions of July 2022 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: IN.PACT AV Access Randomized Trial…
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JVIR audio abstracts: July 2022
This recording features audio versions of July 2022 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) abstracts: Polyethylene Glycol Drug-Eluting Embolic…
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Episode 32: How interventional radiologists can mitigate the contrast media shortage
"We were no longer using iodinated contrast for nonemergent cases. We started using a lot of gadolinium, air, CO2, IVUS, Gastrografin, Cystografin—pretty much…
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Episode 31: Interventional radiology and postpartum hemorrhage response teams
"The people that you interact with emergently—critical care doctors, the transplant doctors, the trauma doctors—they can speak for you. And I think sometimes…
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JVIR audio abstracts: June 2022
This recording provides audio versions of featured abstracts from the June 2022 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR), the Society of…
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JVIR audio 2: Mitigating the contrast media shortage
"Interventional radiology practices are faced with instituting urgent changes in patient care to preserve contrast media for use in procedures for which…
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JVIR audio abstracts: May 2022
This recording provides audio versions of featured abstracts from the May 2022 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR), the Society of…
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IRQ audio 7: IR in the ER: The role of interventional radiology on the trauma team
“The collaboration between surgeons and interventional radiologists has been at the center of many great advancements in trauma care.” —Jack Sava, MD, FACS…
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Episode 30: Improving patient care through the VIRTEX Data Registry
If you think, "You know, I do what other people do but I do it a little bit better," you really should know whether that is indeed the case. So , do I really…
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Episode 29: Owning Success: Paths into leadership
To be a good volunteer and make a real difference, you need to do a lot of listening to what themes are around you and what people are struggling with—and not…
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Episode 28: 2021 in review + top IR Quarterly articles of the year
Just as the specialty is innovative, we foster a culture where we want to be innovative. And we want to be nimble, just as our members are nimble. And so when…
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Episode 27: Owning Success: The power of partnering with industry
If you are in the device world and you have a whole bunch of engineers, if you don't give power to your physicians to help you design, what you'll end up with…
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IRQ audio 6: Pain killers: The healing role of interventional radiology in the U.S. opioid epidemic
“The application of the interventional radiology skill sets to pain has created a new reservoir for alternatives to opioids. There are brand-new options that…
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Episode 26: EPOCH Trial results suggest promising treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer patients
I think this is actually a model that can in fact be propagated across multiple types of centers, as long as that communication is there. —Riad Salem, MD, MBA…
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IRQ audio 5: Career-long retirement planning for the interventional radiologist
As with most any career path, interventional radiology provides more than its share of challenges and joys—and many years of hard but rewarding work. And as…
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IRQ audio 4: Crossing the interventional radiology desert
Data have demonstrated that individuals living in many parts of the country not only lack access to an IR but also lack access to any radiologist with…
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IRQ audio 3: The business case for diversity in interventional radiology
The impact of diversity on finances makes perfect sense when you think of the workforce like a toolbox: Every tool has a purpose and design that makes it…
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Episode 25: Owning success: SIR Gold Medalists
I try to present myself as mild-mannered, quiet and very nice, which wins a lot of battles, but deep inside there’s this fierce sense of “right.” And if there…
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IRQ audio 2: Breaking down histotripsy
With ever-evolving technologies, cancer treatments will almost certainly become more effective and less invasive in the future. A new procedure that will…
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IRQ audio 1: Patient frailty and IR
With an increasing number of geriatric patients seeking IR services, identification of patients at higher risk for complications will allow for improved…
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Episode 24: IRs in focus | Guest: Elsie Koh
What I wanted to do is really focus in on physicians, because I feel like we're sometimes not the ones in the forefront in making decisions in how healthcare…
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Episode 23: Launching and running an office-based lab | Guest: Bret Wiechmann
While I do understand that there may be this idea out there, that the OBL is some magical place, the truth is that I think the ideal scenario is what I…
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Episode 22: IRs in focus | Guest: Vishal Kumar
Dialysis, stroke, peripheral arterial disease, oncology, …these affect patients of all races. We know there are health care inequities—Black and Brown…
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Episode 21: IRs in focus | Guest: Dan Sze
When we show each other these extreme cases, there's a lot of cheering and high-fiving. That's a really fun part of IR, but that is not what is going to…
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Episode 20: Interventional radiology and the potential of GAE to treat osteoarthritis of the knee | Guest: Sandeep Bagla
I think we’re really at the tip of the iceberg. I think this is very early—in my mid stage of the career, I will probably not be practicing as this evolves…
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Episode 19: Demystifying interventional radiology reimbursement | Guest: Kathy Krol
The CPT code may have certain required elements, and if you don’t put all of those in the report, you don’t get credit for doing the procedure. Or if the…
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Episode 18: IRs in focus | Guest: Derek West
The idea that we start a little earlier in getting our students acclimated to interventional radiology is going to be so important. And it already has made a…
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Episode 17: The role of interventional radiology in stroke care | Guest: Eric Wang
I guess my take-home point is that by no means is staffing for a stroke program a small undertaking, so it really is important to have the support from the…
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Episode 16: 2020 year in review
At the very beginning of the pandemic, there was a big outpouring of support through social media outlets and other avenues online between training programs…
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Episode 15: Radiation safety and the interventional radiologist | Guest: Joseph Ring
If you follow good practices—you minimize the patient dose, you wear your protective clothing, you use the pull-down shields and you put the pull-down shields…
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Episode 14: Addressing gender disparities in male-dominated medical specialties | Guest: Barbara Nickel Hamilton
In our specialty, the stereotypes are ... you have to be a certain height. So I hear from women trainees and aspiring interventionalists that, "You know…
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Episode 13: Implicit bias and health care disparities | Guest: P.J. Rochon
You see that it's appalling. What can you do, and what can we do as privileged human beings, to denounce this? To say that it's wrong? To not stand for it? To…
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Episode 12: IRs in focus | Guest: Jeanne Laberge
"One of the big organizations that are groups of people/stakeholders that really change things, in terms of education for sure, are medical students…
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Episode 11: IRs in focus | Guest: Raj Pyne
I wanted to practice clinically oriented IR. I thought, “If I go to a group and say that we should practice IR, then my group is going to say yes—you should go…