Vascular vs Neuro Interventional Rads

[willowdesi]

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Hi,

I was wondering if radiologists often double as a neuro and vascular interventional radiologist or if these are usually practiced separately. If practiced separately, are there as many emergencies in vascular IR as in neuro? Basically, are the call schedules any better either way? Thanks!

Cheers,
Willow

 

[f_w]

Hi,

I was wondering if radiologists often double as a neuro and vascular interventional radiologist or if these are usually practiced separately.

Most of the time separately, but there are a number of people who cross over.

During residency, we had one INR in a private group who also worked the regular VIR lab and took VIR call.
Then there are plenty of VIRs who will do carotids or head-neck embos. Few VIRs venture intracranially to do stuff like stroke therapy.

If practiced separately, are there as many emergencies in vascular IR as in neuro? Basically, are the call schedules any better either way? Thanks!

The call schedule tends to be better because the number of people taking VIR call tends to be larger than the INR call pool. If you have 2 INRs at a institution, it is twice as many as usual.
The call workload in VIR is highly dependent on local practice patterns (e.g. are you willing to come in on-call to put a tempoarary dialysis line in or do you restrict VIR call-ins to true emergencies like bleeders and cold legs).