Tag: SIR
Ablation 2.0: Improved precision as interventionalists approach A0
Ablation is entering a new era of increased precision and quantification, the interventional radiology (IR) community argues, with outcomes that match or surpass those...
SIR and AMA urge Medicare and Medicaid Services to compensate practices...
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) and the American Medical Association (AMA) have sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
SIR’s focus on diversity and inclusion: “There needs to be representation...
In response to the global outcry following the murder of an unarmed black American, George Floyd, by police in Minneapolis in late May of...
Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology impact factor passes key milestone...
The Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology's (JVIR's) impact factor—one measure of a journal's influence based on the number of article citations compared to...
“We believe in diversity and inclusion”: SIR issues statement of commitment...
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) president Michael D Dake (University of Arizona Health Sciences, Tucson, USA) and diversity and inclusiveness group chair Paul...
Society of Interventional Radiology creates free COVID-19 resource centre online
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) has created a free online COVID-19 resource centre for physicians to access via their website.
The site states: "SIR...
CMSS “strongly urges action” to ensure all frontline healthcare professionals are...
In a new statement published on 2 April 2020, all 45 societies represented by the US Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS)—over 800,000 physicians—emphatically...
Michael Dake takes over as new president of SIR
Michael Dake (University of Arizona Health Sciences, Tucson, USA) has become the new president of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR).
He officially assumed his...
SIR publishes first ever position statement on ablation in RCC: Interventional...
For some patients, kidney cancer can be effectively treated without surgery, according to the Society of Interventional Radiology’s first-ever position statement on the role...
New SIR Executive Council elected
During the November SIR and SIR Foundation Nominating Committee meetings, the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) elected a new Executive Council for 2019–2020. Following...
Adequately trained interventional radiologists should be performing endovascular thrombectomies to relieve...
Thousands of eligible patients are not receiving endovascular thrombectomies after suffering a stroke due to a shortage of neurointerventionalists worldwide. In an effort to...
SIR publishes new training guidelines for endovascular thrombectomy
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) has today published new training guidelines for endovascular stroke treatment in the Journal of Interventional Radiology (JVIR). This...
SIR advocates for a reallocation of Capitol funding to increase interventional...
At the third Capitol briefing from the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), Susan Sedory, executive director for SIR, along with a panel of experienced...
Leading interventional radiology societies call for expanded stroke training
In a joint, global position statement, the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE) and the Interventional Radiology...
Medical societies issue revised, patient-centred measures for stroke interventions
Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) publishes guidelines on clinical practice of intra-arterial stroke revascularisation
Revised guidelines for the non-surgical, image-guided interventional treatment of acute ischaemic...
Society of Interventional Radiology names M Victoria Marx president for 2018–19
M Victoria Marx, an interventional radiologist at Keck Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, USA, has been appointed president of the Society of Interventional Radiology...
Early data show arterial embolization reduces knee pain and disability from...
Geniculate artery embolization could improve quality of life for patients with knee pain due to osteoarthritis, according to new research presented at the Society...
Image-guided, minimally invasive medicine revolutionises emergency care
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), in coordination with Member of the US House of Representatives (Rep.) from Utah's 4th district, Mia Love, hosted...
Women largely unaware of uterine fibroid embolization
American women are largely unaware of uterine fibroid embolization according to results from a new nationwide poll released by the Society of Interventional Radiology...
SIR issues position statement encouraging paid parental leave
The Society of Interventional Radiology and its Women in Interventional Radiology section have issued a position statement to support interventional radiologists who choose to...
Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology has growing impact on medicine
The Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology’s (JVIR’s) impact factor—one measure of a journal’s influence based on the number of article citations compared to...
CIRA appoints Daniel Lapointe as new executive director
The Canadian Interventional Radiology Association (CIRA) Board of Directors has announced the appointment of Daniel Lapointe as CIRA’s new executive director on the association’s...
Medical Groups unite in support of science in the USA
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), the American Society of Hematology and 23 other medical societies have released a statement in support of the...
1,000-patient study indicates prostate artery embolization remains effective for years
Prostate artery embolization maintains its effectiveness for at least three years after patients undergo the therapy, according to research presented at the Society of...
ATTRACT fails to meet primary endpoint, but experts agree results are...
Data from the randomised controlled ATTRACT trial revealed that the addition of catheter-based intervention to standard-of-care anticoagulation failed to significantly decrease the occurrence of...
Society of Interventional Radiology statement on US president Donald J Trump’s...
Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) president Charles E Ray Jr has issued the following statement in response to US president Donald J Trump’s executive...
Tom Daschle to address future of healthcare at special SIR 2017...
Former US Senate majority leader Tom Daschle will headline a special 9 March symposium "IR Economics, Quality and Value: Are You Ready For MACRA?"...