German Society for Interventional Radiology and Minimally Invasive Therapy

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The German Society for Interventional Radiology and Minimally Invasive Therapy (DeGIR) is a sub-organization of the German X-ray Society (DRG) that wants to promote interventional procedures in radiology . It emerged in 2008 from the Working Group for Interventional Radiology (AGIR) of the DRG and has 1500 members (2020). Apart from honorary members, members of the DeGIR must also be members of the DRG at the same time.

The organs of the society are the general assembly and the board elected annually by it. The general meetings are held at the annual scientific meetings of the parent companies. In May 2020 the board consisted of seven elected and 13 co-opted members; The chairman was Peter Reimer, director of radiology at the Karlsruhe Municipal Hospital . In August 2013 the society had 1,079 members. The DRG will finance the office. An annual membership fee has been charged by medical specialists since 2015.

The most important offer of DeGIR is a central database set up in 1994 in which approx. 250 (as of 2014) participating institutions record and evaluate their radiological interventional treatments on a voluntary basis. This is intended to fulfill the requirement of Section 137 of the Book V of the Social Code to provide evidence of quality assurance measures. Use is chargeable. The results (radiation doses, complication rates, etc.) are reported back to the doctors. In 2011 an aggregating paper was published once. At least for the treatment of strokes , the register is now (2020) nationwide for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, but the data quality is still inadequate due to the voluntary nature and there are "significant differences between real and treatment numbers listed in the register".

Furthermore, the company offers an advanced training curriculum and voluntary specialist examinations in two stages for its members. It certifies radiological facilities that meet their requirements as “DeGIR centers for interventional vascular medicine and minimally invasive therapy”, as well as training centers together with the German Society for Neuroradiology (DGNR) and interdisciplinary vascular centers and centers for dialysis access with other specialist societies. The office is that of the DRG in Berlin. DeGIR publishes its association news in the journal Gefäßmedizin **.

Since 2013, the DeGIR has been awarding the Eberhard Zeitler Medal in honor of Eberhard Zeitler every year during the opening ceremony of the Interventional Radiological Olbert Symposium (IROS) for special merits in this field. Since 2015 there has also been the Werner Porstmann Prize for the best scientific work on interventional radiology in the last two years, which is awarded at the DRG annual conference.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ L. Heuser, CN Arnold: Quality Report 2011 - Report on the quality of treatment of minimally invasive methods. Fortsch Röntgenstr 2012, doi : 10.1055 / s-0032-1312758
  2. ↑ Ansgar Berlis, Dominik Morhard, Werner Weber: Comprehensive care of acute stroke in 2016 and 2017 by neuro-radiologists using mechanical thrombectomy in Germany based on the DeGIR / DGNR registry . In: RöFo - Advances in the field of X-rays and imaging processes . tape 191 , no. 7 , July 2019, ISSN  1438-9029 , p. 613–617 , doi : 10.1055 / a-0857-6694 ( thieme-connect.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).
  3. ^ Andreas Mahnken, Arno Bücker, Christian Hohl, Ansgar Berlis: White Paper: Curriculum in Interventional Radiology . In: RöFo - Advances in the field of X-rays and imaging processes . tape 189 , no. 04 , March 23, 2017, ISSN  1438-9029 , p. 309–311 , doi : 10.1055 / s-0043-104773 ( thieme-connect.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Minutes of the DeGIR general meeting on January 17, 2014 ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), accessed on September 17, 2014
  5. ↑ Eberhard Zeitler Medal
  6. ↑ Werner Porstmann Prize | DeGIR. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .