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President's column Executive director's column


18 Practice profiles: Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute 23 Coding Q&A: 2019 CPT code changes 24 Legally speaking


28 Research forum SIR Foundation grantee spotlight: Govind Srimathveeravalli, PhD


Features


14 Pain killers


IR can play a critical healing role for patients as the United States battles an opioid epidemic and pain crisis Melanie Padgett Powers


20 26 IR on display


A preview of the SIR 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting


34 SIR, connected On the cutting edge


of wound care A primer on what every IR needs to know Omosalewa Adenikinju, MD Robert E. Beasley, MD Timothy Yates, MD Brandon Olivieri, MD


How the SIR Connect Open Forum has maximized collaboration among members to improve patient care


James Benjamin Moroney, MD James J. Morrison, MD


29 Clinical pearls 30 Abstracts from the current literature 32 Solved on SIR Connect: Severe frostbite 36 Section spotlight 38 International IR: Argentina


Departments


9 IR UP FRONT 13 CALENDAR OF EVENTS 37 STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP


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Merit: 7 Nemeto: 2 Sirtex: 40 WCIO: 17


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