Appointments
Your physician will initiate the scheduling process and our Interventional Radiology staff will contact you with specific instructions prior to your procedure.
What is Interventional Radiology?
Interventional Radiology is an area that performs highly specialized procedures. The procedure room looks much like an operating room. Patients are prepared and recover in the Interventional Radiology holding area where a staff of specialized nurses care for patients.
Many of the procedures in this department are invasive, and require conscious sedation. We are fully equipped to provide sedation, and recover the patients as required. Our Interventional Radiologists are board-certified and highly specialized to perform even the most difficult cases.
Missouri Baptist Medical Center’s Interventional Radiology department offers a variety of imaging services. Common tests performed in this area are:
- AIF Angiography
- Aspirations/ Drainages IVC Filter
- Biopsies
- PICC Lines
- Carotid Angiography
- Declotting
- Dialysis Catheter
- Fistulagrams
- HSG with Recannulization
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- Pain Management Injections
- Paracentesis
- RFA Ablations
- Thoracentesis
- Varicocele Embolizations
- Vertebroplasty
- Uterine Artery Embolizations
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How do I prepare for an Interventional Radiology Procedure?
- For any procedure requiring the use of sedation, patients will need to be fasting, which means nothing to eat or drink after midnight the night before your procedure.
- All procedures done in Interventional Radiology require the restriction of any blood-thinning medications (including baby aspirin) for 3 days prior to the procedure.
- Most procedures done in Interventional Radiology will require specific blood tests the day of the procedure.
- Patients are requested to bring all medications with them the day of the procedure.
- You will receive additional prep instructions from our interventional radiology nurse at the time the procedure is scheduled.
What happens after an Interventional Radiology procedure?
- Most procedures done in Interventional Radiology require a recovery time of 1-4 hours.
- During the recovery time, family members are welcome to stay with patients in the recovery area.
- Patients will be provided pain medications as necessary and a light meal.
- Any procedure using sedation will require patients to have a driver to take them home.