Improved emergency activation in interventional radiology reduces procedure delay and facilitates treatment success in patients with acute arterial bleedings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Research of interventional treatment success in arterial bleeding cases is almost exclusively focused on technical and procedural factors. This study investigates the effect of an improved preprocedural activation algorithm for acute arterial bleedings treated by interventional radiology.

Methods

During the three-year study period (2018-2021), the authors implemented an always-reachable, simple-to-remember emergency phone number routed to the responsible interventional radiologist on call and compared this pathway to the previous activation process. Data were acquired for all emergency cases with active arterial bleeding detected in CT scans and the diagnosis to treatment intervals before and after implementation were retrospectively analysed. Time signatures in C

SUBMITTER: Nadjiri J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11556705 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature