Creating our scenario: narrative review about simulations in interventional radiology.

Abstract

Day-to-day interventional radiology composes a new effective and efficient strategy for the diagnosis and treatment of various pathologies, providing a minimally invasive approach and exceptional results. The contemporary development and learning scenario includes some disadvantages such as the limited demand for procedures in the face of an increasingly growing supply, overlapped by the virtues of simulation learning. The use of various simulators raises new horizons, but they do not escape the scrutiny of the scientific method for their verification, which through narrative review evaluated the advantages, disadvantages and the evidence recorded about simulators in interventional radiology, with special emphasis on the materials and biomaterials, the available technology and the acquisition of skills, demonstrating that with the correct conceptualization of the model based on good materials and technology, the use of simulators is efficient in improving manual skills and attitudes in the area of ​​interventional radiology.