Standards for 24/7 Emergency Interventional Radiology Care

Interventional radiology (IR) provides effective and minimally invasive treatment for a broad range of emergency conditions, including acute hemorrhage, ischemia, and sepsis (1, 2).In their recent CIRSE Standards of Practice document, Mahnken et al. (3) emphasized that the safe and sustainable provision of emergency IR care on a 24/7 basis requires technical expertise and efficient organization and adequate infrastructure.This document outlines the minimum structural and organizational requirements for emergency IR services.These recommendations address key elements, including staffing, on-call organization, technical equipment, access to imaging facilities, patient preparation, and treatment conditions across various emergency settings (3).Importantly, emergency IR should be regarded as a technique and clinical service system.Sustainable 24/7 care requires sufficient staffing, unrestricted access to CT, and the uninterrupted availability of an IR suite (3). COMMENTThis paper is important because it shifts the focus of emergency IR from individual procedural capability to service organization and sustainability.Although previ-