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About Interventional Radiology With today's rapidly advancing field of medicine, The Moncton Hospital (a major trauma and critical care referral centre for New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and northern Nova Scotia) rises to the challenge of leading New Brunswick towards setting new standards for the health care of the future. New technology is making interventional radiology the surgery of the 21st century. Interventional radiology refers to special procedures that use imaging techniques, such as X-ray and ultrasound, to guide small tools through the blood vessels or other pathways through the skin to the site of a problem. These minimally invasive procedures, often done on an outpatient basis in the therapeutic laboratory at The Moncton Hospital, allow many disorders to be treated without surgery. Interventional radiology is beneficial on the basis that the procedures cost less than traditional surgery, there is less risk to the patient and there is a shorter recovery time. Often, the patient is able to go home the same day the procedure took place. Patients from around the Maritimes (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island) visit the laboratory for treatment of a variety of medical disorders. The Moncton Hospital's therapeutic laboratory offers a vast range of interventional radiology services, including angiography, balloon angioplasty, biliary drainage and stenting, central venous access, chemoembolization, embolization, gastrostomy tube, hemodialysis access maintenance, needle biopsy, radiofrequency (RF) ablation, stent-graft, thrombolysis, TIPS (transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt) and uterine artery embolization. The Interventional Radiology department performs over 6,500 procedures each year with vascular, neurology and oncology cases making up most of the laboratory's work. The interventional radiology team consists of interventional radiologists, a neuro-interventional radiologist, radiologic technologists, intensive care trained nurses experienced in interventional work, an inventory clerk, a patient care worker, a scheduling clerk and a manager. In 1999, the Friends of The Moncton Hospital Foundation funded a new interventional radiology imaging system used for diagnosis and invasive treatments. With the continuous growth in interventional radiology, the purchase of a bi-plane interventional radiology system as a second system came to reality in 2006. This system allowed the beginning of a complex neuro-interventional service to begin at The Moncton Hospital, the first in New-Brunswick. The second therapeutic laboratory also doubles as a surgical suite. By joining two interventional laboratories by one central control booth, surgeons, nurses, and technologists are able to work side-by-side facilitating immediate decisions on treatment. The Interventional Radiology department is located on the main floor of the hospital's Medical Imaging department.  Back to top |
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Dr. Luc Francoeur, interventional radiologist at The Moncton Hospital, leads the way in providing advanced medical procedures in the Maritimes.
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Interventional radiology procedures are often done on an outpatient basis at
The Moncton Hospital. |