Cardiovascular Interventional Technology (CVI) is an exciting and challenging field, which establishes an important role in diagnostic and therapeutic radiologic procedures. While concentrating mainly upon the cardiac and vascular systems, CVI consists of a wide range of procedures including angiography, venography, nonvascular interventional, vascular interventional and central venous access procedures.
The Cardiovascular Interventional Technologist is a skilled professional that works primarily in the hospital setting. They are qualified by education and clinical experience to aid the radiologist in performing and producing quality images of the patient's vascular and non-vascular anatomy. The technologist is responsible for educating and preparing patients for their examinations, providing patient care that is essential to the performance of a variety of procedures, taking a medical history before an exam to assist the radiologist in making an accurate diagnosis, positioning patients so desired anatomy will be demonstrated, determine and set appropriate technical parameters to accurately demonstrate anatomy and pathology, and create images that will become a part of the patients medical history.
The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is a 680 plus-bed regional referral center and academic medical center, and one of the nation’s largest university-owned teaching hospitals, is committed to providing world-class health care to every person. It is recognized as The Children's Hospital of Iowa and is Iowa's only comprehensive, tertiary-level center.
At UI Hospitals and Clinics, more than 761 staff physicians and dentists, 484 resident physicians and dentists, 183 fellow physicians, 1,567 professional nurses, and 4,643 other professional and support staff provide specialized care for hospital and clinic patients.
High quality health care at UI Hospitals and Clinics delivered in collaboration with the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine under a partnership called UI Health Care. This partnership is committed to providing the best possible patient-centered health care, cutting edge medical research, and training for the next generation of health care professionals.
The Department of Radiology is committed to providing the finest diagnostic and therapeutic radiology services for University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics' patients. As part of this commitment, the department is actively involved in research into new diagnostic and treatment modalities, including clinical research projects in most areas of imaging.
The cardiovascular Interventional departments are active in providing images that are used for diagnostic purposes and for therapeutic intervention of stenosis, obstruction, arteriovenous malformation, tumor and pain management. Approximately 12,500 procedures are performed each year in the angiography and 2,400 procedures in the cardiac catheterization divisions. The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has suites dedicated to peripheral, neurologic, and cardiac procedures. These suites utilize a variety of single and bi-plane imaging systems, digital subtraction, GDC coils, angiojet, rotablator, intravascular coronary US and Bionese Noga left ventricular mapping.