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Editor’s Diary
A vascular surgeon friend from the Midwest recently stopped by my office here in Southern California. His visit gave me a chance to compare our hospitals. Like many private practitioners, I work at several community hospitals. My primary hospital has…
Introducing Our New International Editors
If our readers have any doubt, all they need do is casually scan the program for the recent VAM in Chicago or examine the content and Editorial Board of a current copy of the JVS to realize that the Society…
Can RCTs be misleading and biased?
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) constitute level 1 evidence, which is widely considered the best data upon which to base medical practice. This is particularly true when the RCTs are published in leading journals like the New England Journal of Medicine…
APDVS: Tapping the Minds of Vascular Trainees
CHICAGO – Vascular surgery trainees are increasingly turning to online texts for clinical information and seek more training on the business aspects of vascular surgery and noninvasive laboratory studies, according to a survey by the Association of Program Directors in…
Impact of Fellowship Programs on Residents’ Case Logs Examined
BOCA RATON, FLA. – Coexisting subspecialty fellowship programs have at most only minimal adverse impact on general surgery residency training operative volumes, according to a national study sponsored by the American Board of Surgery. The analysis also demonstrated that fellowship-bound…
Fear and Loathing on the Interview Trail
As we strive to provide the most advanced care possible to our patients with vascular disease, there is one area of our practice that stands out as being as archaic as cellophane wrapping of aneurysms: the process of finding a…
About The Residents’ Forum
With this issue, we begin a new column which we have chosen to call Residents’ Forum. We hope that Vascular Residents, Fellows, and others interested in entering this exciting field will consider submitting an essay on topics important to them…
Vascular Surgery Chronicles
Ernest Stanley Crawford (1922-1992) was an internationally renowned cardiovascular surgeon whose greatest technical work involved innovative surgical techniques in the treatment of complex aortic diseases and diseases of the heart. He was a tremendous innovator who became the co-inventor of…
Vascular Surgery Chronicles: Michael E. DeBakey
Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey, pioneer heart surgeon and medical device innovator, died July 11, 2008, in Houston, about 2 months shy of his 100th birthday on Sept. 7. In his lifetime, Dr. DeBakey was renowned for his immense contributions to…