Focusing on workflow changes rather than staffing levels may be critical to curbing burnout and ensuring providers achieve better work-life balance.

In two independent, prospective studies, the laser-guided tool was 96%-99% effective with a major adverse event rate of 0.7%-2%.

Shifting these outpatient interventional procedures from hospital-based rooms toward clinic-based settings also helped reduce wait and exam times, experts reported in JACR.

Urologists still maintain a majority of nephro-ureteral catheter and ureteral stent placements, researchers reported in JACR.

While IR experts still complete a majority of initial renal access exams, urologists are narrowing the gap.

Contrast-enhanced imaging can help clinicians assess thromboembolism earlier and determine if and when to remove filters, researchers explained in Clinical Imaging.

Salt Lake City-based Xenter is using physiological and intravascular imaging data to better treat heart and vascular diseases, among other goals.

A group of 11 societies issued a practice advisory recently to help physicians better select contrast agents and manage adverse events.