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Digestive Disease Interventions
DOI: 10.1055/s-0045-1807252
Review Article

Interventional Radiology Management of the Acute Trauma Patient

Kylie Zane 
1   Department of Interventional Radiology, UChicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
,
Priya Prakash
2   Department of Trauma Surgery, UChicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
,
Steven M. Zangan
1   Department of Interventional Radiology, UChicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
,
Jonathan M. Lorenz
1   Department of Interventional Radiology, UChicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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Abstract

The management of traumatic injuries requires the coordinated efforts of a multidisciplinary team of trauma surgeons, subsurgical specialties, intensivists, and interventionalists. The interventional radiologist plays a critical role in the management of acute trauma by offering 24-hour consultation, expert imaging interpretation, and an array of life-saving minimally invasive procedures. As integrated members of the multidisciplinary clinical team, the interventional radiologist should be able to review clinical information, communicate clearly with consulting services, perform timely intervention, provide postprocedural follow-up, and document relevant information in the patient chart. The following review provides a stepwise approach to the rapid clinical assessment of the trauma patient and outlines the pathways taken by the trauma patient to the interventional radiology suite.

Keywords

trauma - hemodynamic instability - interventional radiology


Publication History

Received: 28 January 2025

Accepted: 11 March 2025

Article published online:
02 May 2025

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