This article summarizes presentations given at the recent educational symposium jointly sponsored by Bracco and Bayer at ECR 2016. Prof. Christian Herold, chairman of the session, noted that this was a unique occasion in which a symposium was jointly sponsored by two industrial concerns and he welcomed this initiative as an opportunity for radiologists to focus exclusively on fundamental issues. The session comprised two presentations on the value of contrast enhancement in brain and abdominal imaging,
followed by four presentations on the prevention and management of acute adverse reactions to contrast media.