JNIS Podcast

Being a female physician in a male-dominated speciality

Sexism is common place in one of the most male-dominated subspecialties in medicine. Despite this, the prevalence of women physicians in neurointervention is steadily rising.
In this podcast, JNIS Editor-In-Chief, Felipe C. Albuquerque, interviews neurointerventionalists Stephanie H Chen - Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine - and Marie-Christine Brunet - Department of Neurological Surgery (NEUR) at McGill University - about the challenges of being a female physician in this field.
They are the authors of the first study examining the amount of maternal and fetal radiation exposure during a pregnant neurointerventional fellow’s training. Spoiler alert: the findings suggest that, when optimal radiation safety practices are implemented, the fetal dose of a pregnant neurointerventionalist is negligible.
Read the paper for free for a month on the JNIS website:
https://jnis.bmj.com/content/12/10/1014
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Transarterial and transvenous access in neurointervention

The recommendations resulting from the report of the SNIS Standards and Guidelines Committee on transarterial access are discussed in this podcast.
JNIS Editor-In-Chief, Felipe C. Albuquerque, interviews Robert Starke (University of Miami MILLER School of Medicine, Miami Beach, Florida, and Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, New York) and Justin Fraser (University of Kentucky, Lexington), who recently published the paper “Transarterial and transvenous access for neurointerventional surgery: report of the SNIS Standards and Guidelines Committee” on behalf of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery.
Read the paper on the JNIS website: https://jnis.bmj.com/content/12/8/733

‘Chronic intracranial venous hypertension syndrome’: a new classification scheme for IIH

JNIS Editor-In-Chief Felipe C. Albuquerque discusses idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) and a new patient classification paradigm with Kyle Fargen (Neurological Surgery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA) and Michael Levitt (Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA). Both authors recently wrote about the intersection between IIH and venous sinus stenosis, an increasingly hot topic within the neurointerventional community. In the podcast, the participants discuss this novel classification, venous sinus stenting, and issues pertaining to this diverse patient population.
Read the paper and the commentary on the JNIS website:
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension is not idiopathic: proposal for a new nomenclature and patient classification
https://jnis.bmj.com/content/12/2/110
Commentary: Another version of the truth
https://jnis.bmj.com/content/12/4/335

Field triage for endovascular stroke therapy

In a densely populated setting, for patients with stroke who are endovascular therapy candidates and closest to a primary stroke center from the field, triage to a slightly more distant comprehensive stroke center is associated with faster time to endovascular therapy, no delay to alteplase, and less disability at 90 days.
Felipe de Albuquerque talks to Mahesh Jayaraman and Ryan McTaggart (Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Rhode Island, USA) about their paper “Field triage for endovascular stroke therapy: a population-based comparison”, which is part of the March issue of JNIS and can be read for free on the journal's website: https://jnis.bmj.com/content/12/3/233.

Standards for European training requirements in interventional neuroradiology guidelines

In this podcast, Felipe de Albuquerque talks to Istvan Szikora, Neurointerventions, National Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, Budapest, Hungary, about the official document of Standards for European training requirements in interventional neuroradiology guidelines by the Division of Neuroradiology/Section of Radiology European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), in cooperation with the Division of Interventional Radiology/UEMS, the European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR), and the European Society of Minimally Invasive Neurological Therapy (ESMINT). Read the paper on the JNIS website: https://jnis.bmj.com/content/early/2019/11/15/neurintsurg-2019-015537 .

Posterior circulation stroke: the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery standards and guidelines

In this podcast, Editor-in-Chief of JNIS Felipe C. Albuquerque talks to Justin F. Fraser, Neurological Surgery, University of Kentucky, about the current endovascular strategies for posterior circulation large vessel occlusion stroke: the report of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery Standards and Guidelines Committee.
Read the paper for free on the JNIS website: https://jnis.bmj.com/content/11/10/1055.

Distal transradial approach for diagnostic cerebral angiography

In this podcast, Editor-in-Chief of JNIS Felipe C. Albuquerque talks to Eric Peterson (University of Miami MILLER School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA) about the novel technique of distal transradial access in the diagnostic cerebral angiography.
The paper is the Editor’s Choice article of the July issue of JNIS. Read it online: https://jnis.bmj.com/content/11/7/710.

A closer look over Brexit’s impact on research and publishing

Although the impact of Brexit on research is still unknown, BMJ’s CEO Peter Ashman is confident medical publishing “will be OK”.
In this special podcast, Publishing Director of BMJ, Allison Lang, assures the American audience of JNIS that the turmoil in the UK over leaving the European Union should have no impact on the specialty journals of the BMJ Publishing Group.

Wide-neck middle cerebral artery and basilar apex treated by endovascular techniques. The BRANCH

In the January 2019 podcast, Felipe C. Albuquerque talks to Reade De Leacy about the BRANCH (wide-neck bifurcation aneurysms of the middle cerebral artery and basilar apex treated by endovascular techniques)- a multicentre, retrospective study comparing core lab evaluation of angiographic outcomes with self-reported outcomes.
Read the JNIS Editor's Choice paper here: https://jnis.bmj.com/content/11/1/31.

Neurothrombectomy in the late time window: continued benefit in trial ineligible patients

There are two editor's choice papers of the November issue of JNIS discussed in this podcast. Editor-in-Chief of JNIS, Felipe de Albuquerque, talks to Ashutosh Jadhav and Shashvat Desai, both from the Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania, USA. They are co-authors of the papers:
Thrombectomy 6-24 hours after stroke in trial ineligible patients (https://jnis.bmj.com/content/10/11/1033)
Thrombectomy 24 hours after stroke: beyond DAWN (https://jnis.bmj.com/content/10/11/1039).