A 2024 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM 2024) Education Session taking place on Wednesday, June 19 (3:15–4:45 p.m. in the West Building, Level 1) will examine the most common emergency intraoperative vascular surgery consultations, along with trends in intraoperative vascular surgery consultation over time—the subject area that has seen vascular surgeons referred to as the firefighters of the operating room (OR).
The aim, through nine presentations given by speakers with broad experience in the field, is for attendees to work together to create a framework for emergency intraoperative consultation, with the assistance of expert viewpoints regarding the best options for vascular intervention for common emergency intraoperative consultation.
Moderated by Maen Aboul Hosn, MD, from University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, and Bryan Dieffenbach, MD, from Scripps Health in San Diego, California, the session will begin by looking at common intraoperative emergencies for contemporary vascular surgeons with Andrew J. Soo Hoo, MD, a general surgery resident at Medical College of Georgia in Augusta.
Following on from this and three other presentations given by Rebecca Scully, MD, from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, Gaurav Sharma, MD, from Kaiser Permanente Foundation Hospital in Santa Clara, California, and moderator Aboul Hosn, the next presentation will be given by Manju Kalra, MBBS, from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, entitled “How I do it: A senior surgeon’s approach to emergency intraoperative consultation.”
The final presentation of the session, “How’re you going to fix It? Case presentation: Emergent endovascular repair of an internal iliac artery injury during an outpatient lumbar discectomy,” will be given by Tara Zielke, MD, from Indiana University Health in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Speaking to VS@VAM about the session, Aboul Hosn said it “will highlight the role of vascular surgeons in managing catastrophic bleeding events and lay out a framework for the approach to emergency intraoperative consultation by utilizing existing multidisciplinary models, available data and expert opinions.”
