Alex Barnacle (London, UK), a passionate advocate of paediatric interventional radiology (IR), outlines the enormous rewards and extraordinary benefits associated with this field. However, paediatric IR often fails to finds a forum and awareness remains low, even among IR trainees, who are often not exposed to what this field can achieve in children, she notes.
Some IRs may find it intimidating to go from doing a complex EVAR or trauma case in an adult patient to operating on a one-month old baby, states Barnacle, all the while acknowledging that she would be more likely to see it “the other way around”. Yet, in the most complex cases, if successful, paediatric IR can help a young infant gain another 70 or 80 years of life—and working in this field is an “extraordinary privilege”, she reveals.
Alex Barnacle was speaking to BLearning IR at CIRSE 2019 (Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe; 7–11 September; Barcelona, Spain)
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