PIONEERING CARE
The Interventional Radiology team provides essential services that are integrated into the care pathway of children in almost all other service lines. As such we offer emergency care (i.e. to the emergency department, neonatal intensive care unit, pediatric intensive care unit), urgent care (i.e. to transplant, hematology-oncology, cardiology and gastroenterology teams), and routine elective care (i.e. to dermatology, neurology, rheumatology, ENT and endocrinology teams). We work closely with our anesthesiology colleagues to provide 24/7 care, all year round, for children from the time they are born, when they can be small as 500g, all the way through to when they become adults. Our goal is to provide the highest quality care to children using minimally invasive techniques that help to support the physical and mental wellbeing of a child and family throughout their journey through our healthcare system.
Newborn Interventions
Evaluating the biliary system in a newborn
Vascular line placements for babies who need dialysis
PICC fragment retrieval from the lungs using minimally invasive techniques
Vascular Access
Temporary / Apheresis Line
PICC
Tunneled Line
Port
Biopsies
Ultrasound-guided biopsy of a transplant kidney with tract sealing using gelfoam pledgets
Ultrasound-guided targeted biopsy of indeterminate liver lesions
Fluoroscopically-guided transjugular liver biopsy
Targeted Injections
PICC
CT guided percutaneous injection of Botox and analgesia to block the celiac ganglion for patients with abdominal pain
Xperguide intrathecal injection of Spinraza for patients with spinal muscular atrophy
Joint Injection of steroids for patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
Percutaneous Drainage Catheter Placements
Bypassing an obstructed Kidney
Draining fluid in the pleural space
Draining an abscess from a perforated appendix
Bypassing a biliary leak following a liver resection