Interventional radiology is an emerging area of high-tech, minimally invasive medicine that uses catheter-based procedures for the diagnosis and/or treatment of a variety of medical conditions. This includes the field of vascular interventional radiology.
OhioHealth's Interventional Radiology Center at Riverside Methodist Hospital is the largest in central Ohio. Our innovative center is designed as a healing environment for patients and their families, offering three private consultation rooms and a dedicated patient family waiting area. The waiting area has an electronic patient tracking board where family members can monitor the progress of loved ones throughout their procedures.
Our diagnostic treatment environment includes the addition of a fourth lab and doubles our nursing beds from six to twelve. We now have more procedure rooms, bi-plane X-ray units and interventional radiologists than any other hospital in the area, which means improved care for our patients.
. Vascular / Interventional Radiology Procedures
Interventional procedures are used in many specialties,including neurovascular,oncology,gynecology,pain management and vascular disease. Procedures performed at our interventional radiology center at Riverside Methodist include:
- Neurovascular intervention
- Carotid stenting
- Uterine artery embolization
- Infusaport placement and dialysis catheter placement
- Pain management procedures
- Peripheral vascular interventions
- Catheter-based thrombolytic therapy for clots
- Tumor ablations
- Wide variety of non-vascular interventions (for example,nephrostomy tubes,g-tubes and biliary drains)
Services Available to You and Your Family
The Interventional Radiology Center has a quiet waiting room available with an electronic tracking board that allows friends and family members to monitor the progress of a loved one throughout his or her procedure. Additionally,personal DVD players and wireless Internet connection are available.
Friends and family members may wait in our comfortable waiting area or a pager may be provided. Pagers work anywhere within the hospital,allowing friends and/or family members to visit several locations and be paged when the procedure is complete.
Other services include:
- Free valet parking
- Pre- and post-procedure phone calls to prepare and follow-up with patients
- Patient and family will be escorted to the care upon discharge