Workshop Sessions

ABSCESS DRAINAGE AND MANAGEMENT (01)Upon completion of this workshop, the attendeewill be able to:

1. Describe the current and advanced techniques forpercutaneous placement of drainage catheters.

2. Understand basic and advanced catheter man­agement principles and techniques.

3. Demonstrate basic and advanced catheter revi­sion techniques.

4. Understand the technique and management prin­ciples for specific fluid collections including diver­ticular, periappendicular, peripancreatic, lympho­cele, hematoma, enteric fistula, neoplastic,tubovarian, hepatosplenic and renal collections.

BILIARY INTERVENTIONS (04)Upon completion of this workshop, the attendeewill be able to:

1. Familiarize the participant with techniques andclinical and procedural decision making fortreatment of benign common bile duct stric­tures.

2. Review techniques for management of compli­cations resulting from surgical Cie: laparo­scopic/open cholecystectomy) or percutaneousbiliary intervention.

3. Familiarize the participant in current techniquesand clinical and procedural decision making fortreatment of malignant biliary strictures.

4. Review current techniques for management ofhepatobiliary related stone disease.

Coordinator: David J. Eschelman, MD

Coordinator: David M. Ayoub, MD

Horacio R. D'Agostino, MD Steven 1. Dawson, MD

ALTERNATIVES TO IODINATED CONTRAST (02)Upon completion of this workshop, the attendeewill be able to:

1. Acquire an understanding of the uses and lim­itations of carbon dioxide as a contrast agent.

2. Learn techniques for delivery of carbon dioxide.3. Learn how carbon dioxide can be used to guide

vascular interventions.4. Become familiar with the early experience us­

ing gadolinium as a vascular contrast agent.

1. Perform current techniques for percutaneousbiopsy, and choose the appropriate needle.

2. Know how to obtain an adequate specimen,choose cytology vs. pathology, and do speci­men preparation.

3. Understand the method of transjugular liver bi­opsy including indications, equipment, speci­men handling, technique, and other applica­tions.

4. Understand basic bone biopsy techniques, in­cluding indications and equipment.

5. Anticipate complications and know how tomanage them.

BIOPSY (05)Upon the completion of this workshop, the at­tendee will be able to:

Coordinator: Scott J. Savader, MD

Mario Bezzi, MD Marcelle Shapiro, MDKaren Brown, MD Peter Waybill, MDMatthew Johnson, MD Adam Winick, MDTimothy McCowan, MD

John A. Kaufman, MDDavid R. Langdon, MDMark J. Rieumont, MD

NlichaelA. Bettmann,MDJames G. Caridi, MDKaren O. Ehrman, MDIrvin F. Hawkins, Jr., MD

Coordinator: Karen T. Brown, MDANGIOGRAPHIC DAMAGE CONTROL INTRAUMA (03)Upon completion of this workshop, the attendeewill be able to:

Lynn Brody, MDWilliam R. Richli, MD

Kimberly Ann Waugh, MD

Coordinator: Yoram Ben-Menachem, MD

1. Understand how to focus on critical injuries andhow to target examinations for rapid diagnosisand treatment.

2. Appreciate the performance, wounding capac­ity, and wound tracts of penetrating woundingagents.

3. Understand radiologists' potential contributionto damage control in severe abdominal trauma.

4. Understand exploratory and interventive an­giography; control and prevention of hemor­rhage; targets of opportunity, and technicalproblems in performance.

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Douglas M. Coldwell, MDMichael Katz, MD

George 1. Miller, III, MD

BREAST INTERVENTIONS (HANDS-ON) (06)Upon completion of this workshop, the attendeewill be able to:

1. Understand how to reach a definitive histologicdiagnosis of a breast lesion with either stereo­tactic or ultrasound directed percutaneous bi­opsy.

2. Understand how to utilize the definitive histo­logic diagnosis provided by breast biopsy toreduce the number of surgeries for diagnosisand therapy.

Coordinator: Steve H. Parker, MD

Mark A. Dennis, MD Catherine A. Kusnick, MDJohn S. Fisher, MD Anne A. Smid, MDCraig C. Hanson, MD