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Table of Contents:

Contributors
Preface to the third edition
Preface to the first edition
1 Sedation 3
2 Analgesia and anesthesia 14
3 Drugs used in the imaging department 27
4 Patient care considerations and resuscitation 47
5 Infectious complications 94
6 The pregnant and nursing patient 119
7 Radiation exposure in interventional radiology 133
8 Electric and mechanical hazards 143
9 Diagnostic ultrasound 165
10 Nuclear medicine 174
11 Magnetic resonance imaging: bioeffects, safety, and patient management 190
12 Lasers 222
13 Complications of intravascular iodinated contrast media 245
14 Complications of diagnostic angiography 303
15 Complications of venography 317
16 Complications of pulmonary angiography 324
17 Complications of diagnostic and interventional angiocardiography 331
18 Complications of percutaneous angioplasty 346
19 Complications of the newer intravascular interventions 362
20 Complications of regional fibrinolytic therapy 372
21 Complications of embolization 392
22 Complications of inferior vena cava filters 408
23 Complications of venous vascular stents 422
24 Complications of diagnostic neuroangiography 437
25 Complications of neuroradiology: intrathecal studies 447
26 Complications in interventional neuroradiology 465
27 Complications of percutaneous intervention in the thorax 473
28 Complications of diagnostic studies of the gastrointestinal tract 483
29 Complications of transhepatic biliary procedures 503
30 Complications in the gastrointestinal tract: hollow organs and abscesses 526
31 Complications of gastrointestinal tract interventional endoscopy 546
32 Complications of urinary tract diagnostic procedures 563
33 Complications of interventional uroradiology 577
34 Complications of gynecologic diagnostic and interventional procedures 591
35 Complications of interventional procedures in the breast 603
36 Orthopedic complications 612
37 Complications in pediatric radiology 620
38 Malpractice, risk management, and quality improvement in radiology 631
39 Informed consent and liability: controversies for the 1990s 649
40 Medicolegal problems in the UK involving diagnostic radiology 666
41 Legal considerations and quality assurance in the USA 674
42 General considerations 687
Index 691