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Report of the 11th Annual Registry Meeting
The 11th Annual Registry meeting-cum-mid term CME program & Complication meeting was held under the auspices of ISVIR on April 25-26, 2009 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. The meeting was attended by 176 delegates. This year, the registry saw the best ever participation with an over two fold rise in annual data submission over the last calendar year. Since the 1st year of its inception in 1999, the annual registry has now seen an over 700% increase in the number of procedures that are submitted to the registry every year. The actual numbers will certainly be more than this. This year, a total of 119 ISVIR members and 21non-member residents from 44 departments in 42 institutions participated in data submission and contributed 30,434 patients for the calendar year 2008. In addition, a specific disease-based database for the interventional management of critical limb ischemia was tested by a small group of members and was found to be user friendly with exceptional scientific merit in terms of content. A technique-based questionnaire was also tested for uterine fibroid embolization (UFE) procedures. This survey of 837 patients who underwent UFE provided very useful information. It was decided to make efforts to make this questionnaire more objective in terms of data collection and analysis. The members unanimously decided to continue with the existing general data collection with a slightly modified web page for all members. In addition, it was also unanimously decided to pursue the critical limb ischemia data base and the questionnaire exercises. The members also suggested that efforts should be made to create additional such databases & questionnaires for other disease processes or techniques. It was also proposed that the society hire a data entry operator to help coordinate homogenous data submission and analysis.
The CME program included a complications meeting with interactive sessions followed by a teaching program addressing the advances in interventional radiology based on the lessons from trials and registries. All the sessions were well attended. The redrawn faculty from the younger tier of members gave an exceptional academic treat to the delegates. This concept was a resounding success due to its educational content.
This year.s meeting was a landmark event in the short life span of ISVIR for twin reasons. Firstly, this was the best ever attendance for a registry meeting in terms of the number of delegates, number of members who submitted cases as well as the total number of cases submitted. Secondly, this meeting truly witnessed the charge of the youth brigade of ISVIR members who stepped in at a short notice to undertake the responsibility to deliver theme-based lectures. Many of them were doing it for the first time ever. But, they all gave an exemplary performance. Both these events have ensured that the future of ISVIR is secure and that interventional radiology in India is surely poised for the big leap forward.
