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SVS Wellness Task Force launches COVID-19 member survey
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Wellness Task Force has launched an anonymous member survey in a bid to better support vascular surgeons as the coronavirus pandemic continues to run rampant. The Task Force—set to become a full-fledged committee—has gone…
First patient enrolled globally in SELUTION SLR study for AV fistulae
The objectives of this prospective, randomized, single-blind multicenter study are to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of SELUTION SLR in the treatment of failed AV fistulae in patients undergoing renal dialysis. This study will also qualify for EU MDR approval.…
New COVID-19-focused vascular registry gains IRB approval
A new vascular surgery registry launched to leverage key data gathered in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic—and aimed at helping prepare for the fallout from future outbreaks—has acquired Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval. With members spread across 30 different…
Official: SVS cancels VAM
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has officially pulled the plug on the 2020 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) scheduled to take place in Toronto from June 17–20 amid the continuing surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. In its place, the SVS…
Philips and US government collaborate in ventilator production ramp up to combat COVID-19 pandemic
Royal Philips has announced that the US government and Philips agreed to team up to increase the production of hospital ventilators in its manufacturing sites in the United States. Philips plans to double the production by May 2020 and achieve a…
TCAR outperforms transfemoral carotid artery stenting, ‘significantly’ lowering stroke and death risk
A study that set out to determine whether there was a lesser stroke or death risk by deploying transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) over the transfemoral approach among patients receiving treatment for carotid stenosis suggested a statistically significant advantage for the…
Leadership figures ruminate on redeployment of vascular surgeons as COVID-19 surges
It’s an issue increasingly knocking on the door of program directors and section chiefs in hospitals across the country as COVID-19 cases escalate in their areas: the redeployment of vascular surgeons and trainees to other areas of care. It formed…
COVID-19: Socially distant yet never closer
We certainly live in interesting times—times in which social distancing has literally become the new normal. COVID-19 came to the United States quietly and then hit like a brick, creating a national emergency. It is almost difficult to remember what…
Open AAA repair volume appears to be more impactful on outcomes than years of experience, investigators reveal
PALM BEACH, Fla.— The more open aortic repair (OAR) case volume vascular surgeons take on, the more it seems to be “impactful” on OAR outcomes than a physician’s accumulated years of practice experience. The finding was revealed by Salvatore T.…
Of moral distress, coronavirus and implications for burnout
Moral distress has been described as “as a phenomenon in which one knows the right action to take but is constrained from taking it.”1 Continuous exposure to moral distress leads to moral injury. The term “moral injury” was first described…