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‘Battlefield first aid’: A peer-to-peer prescription for dealing with adverse surgical outcomes
“Battlefield first aid” after a colleague has a bad case as the cornerstone of peer-to-peer support in vascular surgery was the feature of the recent Jesse E. Thompson, MD, Distinguished Guest Lecture at the 2025 Southern Association for Vascular Surgery…
AVF: From good to great
Ruth Bush, MD, used her 2025 American Venous Forum (AVF) presidential address to highlight the organization’s elevation and path to “level 5 leadership.” Level 5 leadership is seen across the organization’s activities, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, professor…
Open surgery, endovascular intervention and robotics: The coming ‘third revolution’ in vascular surgery
The 2025 Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) presidential address featured the hashtag phrase #OnlyUs, an allusion to the specialty’s “unique” differentiator. SAVS 2024–25 President Alan Lumsden, MD, returned to a familiar recent theme for his address to the 49th…
AVF 2025: A call for ‘second-generation steps’ in venous stenting
The need for a revolutionary second generation of venous stents are among the gaps and unmet needs currently at play in deep venous surgery, the 2025 American Venous Forum (AVF), held from Feb. 16–19 in Atlanta, Georgia, heard. Erin Murphy…
Ketamine reduces postoperative opiate use and pain scores as part of spinal cord protection protocol for TAAA repair
The introduction of ketamine into a spinal cord ischemia (SCI) protection protocol used during thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) repairs led to significant reductions in postoperative opiate administration and patient-reported pain scores, a randomized controlled trial (RCT) performed by a team…
FFRCT diagnosis of coronary ischemia with ischemia-targeted coronary revascularization more than halves five-year risk of cardiac death and MI following CEA
Preoperative diagnosis of lesion-specific ischemia using coronary computed tomography (CT)-derived fractional flow reserve (FFRCT) and ischemia-targeted coronary revascularization after carotid endarterectomy (CEA) can reduce the five-year risk of cardiac death and myocardial infarction (MI) by more than 50% and improve…
New analysis details learning curve effect behind ‘significant improvement’ in performance of PE mechanical thrombectomy over time
A multisite hospital system analysis of the safety and procedural learning curve behind the performance of percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy for pulmonary embolism (PE) shows significant reductions in both fluoroscopy and procedure times alongside contrast volume over time. The data, the…
Shape Memory Medical announces first European enrolment in AAA-SHAPE pivotal trial
Shape Memory Medical today announced the first European enrollment in the AAA-SHAPE pivotal trial, the company’s prospective, multicenter, randomized, open-label trial to determine the safety and effectiveness of the Impede-FX RapidFill device to improve abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) sac behavior…
Stryker completes acquisition of Inari Medical
Stryker announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Inari Medical. A press release notes that the addition of Inari brings an established peripheral vascular position to Stryker in the fast-growing venous thromboembolism (VTE) segment. “The acquisition of Inari…
Reflections from VESS: Internal mentoring, external inspiration and really good skiing
Just over a week ago, I was racing my medical school vascular surgery attending, Dr. Adam Doyle, down a Breckenridge run memorably named “The Devil’s Crotch.” We were celebrating fresh powder, the conclusion of an excellent fellows program, and the…