Central Venous Access: Evolving Roles of Radiology and Other Specialties Nationally Over Two Decades

The Impact of Nonphysician Providers on Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Practices: Operational and Educational Implications

“…In a similar study analyzing trends in central venous access procedures, researchers found a 46,089% increase in the number of these procedures performed on Medicare beneficiaries by NPs and PAs between 1992 and 2011 (from 118 to 54,503) [17]. Similar trends have been observed for gastrostomy tube placement procedures and for percutaneous liver and kidney biopsies.…”

“…The frequency with which NPs and PAs perform imageguided vascular and nonvascular procedures is increasing at the national level [15][16][17]. Such national validated data for RAs, however, are lacking.…”

The Impact of Nonphysician Providers on Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Practices: Regulatory, Billing, and Compliance Perspectives

“…Central venous access procedures, thoracenteses, paracenteses, and percutaneous liver and kidney biopsies are some of the more common procedures performed by NPs and PAs in radiology departments [22][23][24][25][26][27]. The ability and safety of nonphysician providers to perform such procedures are discussed in detail in part 2 of this series.…”

Common procedures and strategies for anaesthesia in interventional radiology

“…These procedures are often done on complex patients or those who have failed line placement elsewhere [14]. Everything else being equal, patients need simply to lie still and may require only anxiolysis.…”