Ask the Experts: Overcoming Spinal Intervention Contrast Media Challenges - Podcast 9

In episode 9, our experts covered your questions on:

• How do you recognize, diagnose, and treat symptomatic hypersensitivity reactions to contrast media?
• How do you prevent repeat hypersensitivity reactions with a proper history?
• How do you discuss pretreatment for patients with known hypersensitivity reactions?
• Which iodinated contrast media should we consider?
• When should gadolinium-based contrast media be considered?
• What are appropriate contrast media concentrations and volumes?
• How should you manage procedures when there are iodinated contrast media shortages?

Your expert panel for this August 6, 2024 webinar included:

• Past President Timothy Maus, MD, a Mayo Clinic Professor Emeritus of Radiology, and moderator of the Case Review Community; and
• Christin A. Tiegs-Heiden, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

The panel was moderated by Michael Furman, MD, MS, Fellowship Director at OSS Health, who also serves on the IPSIS Board as a Member-at-Large.

You can also watch the video of this webinar here.

Episode 9 Show Notes: These are the abstracts referenced by our experts.

• The American College of Radiology Manual on Contrast Media
• The Use of Contrast Agents in Interventional Pain Procedures: A Multispecialty and Multisociety Practice Advisory on Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis, Gadolinium Deposition in the Brain, Encephalopathy After Unintentional Intrathecal Gadolinium Injection, and Hypersensitivity Reactions

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