Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)

Treatments can vary depending on the severity of symptoms and the patient's individual circumstances. Here are 2 Minimally Invasive procedures and their approximate success rates.
Prostate Artery Embolization (PAE)
90%
Transurethral Microwave Thermotherapy (TUMT)
75%

Advantages of Interventional Radiology (IR) Treatments

Interventional Radiology (IR) treatments offer patients numerous benefits, including reduced invasiveness, lower risk, faster recovery, and improved outcomes for a wide range of medical conditions

HelmBuilt by Blue Ocean

Meet Helm — the turnkey system to manage your IR program.

Helm runs the whole IR program. It finds the patients already in your records who are likely candidates and shows why, moves them through outreach, charts the case as it happens, and captures every item and measurement off it — without anyone re-entering the same thing into four systems.

01 — IDENTIFY

Candidates you already have

An AI agent reads diagnoses, medications, labs and notes across every chart and ranks the likely PAE candidates, with the reason for each.

02 — OUTREACH

Contacted and booked

Identified, contacted, responded, booked — each patient's position visible, with follow-ups tracked rather than remembered.

03 — CASE

Charted as it happens

Preference card applied, items scanned at the table, measurements captured in the record while the case is running.

04 — INVENTORY & DATA

Auditable to the unit

Every scanned item decrements stock by lot and facility. Reorder recommendations, vendor purchase orders and billing all come off the same record.

Patient FinderIllustrative
BPH on medication, not improving, never referred
38likely PAE candidates4,217 charts reviewed · 2.1s · none previously referred
Candidate A68 M · last seen 4 morank 01
  • ▸N40.1 — BPH with lower urinary tract symptoms
  • ▸Tamsulosin 0.4 mg — 26 months, no symptom improvement recorded
  • ▸IPSS 24 — severe, at last assessment
  • ▸Prostate volume 94 cc · PVR 180 mL
  • ▸No prior urologic procedure on record
02Candidate B72 M · vol 94 cc · 2 yr therapy
03Candidate C61 M · retention ×2 · IPSS 19
Case recordIllustrative
PAE — right & left prostatic arteriescase 2048 · radial access
✓  preference card applied
Scanned at the table
Embolic microspheres 300–500 µmlot 7C-4412×2
Microcatheter 2.4 Flot M-8830×1
Guidewire 0.016 inlot G-2215×1
Fluoro
21.4 min
Contrast
118 mL
DAP
142 Gy·cm²
Room time
74 min
inventory decremented→documentation complete→ready to bill

Practice management — this month

1,284units on hand
17expiring in 30 days
6open purchase orders
412procedures year to date
23booked from outreach

In production across Blue Ocean's national network of partner practices.

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