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Vascular surgery trainees face the future armed similarly with both open and endovascular skills
The BEST-CLI trial underscores the importance of ensuring trainee competence in open peripheral revascularization as well as endovascular treatment. Indeed, the trial results have called for a reshift in focus to ensure trainees have much needed open skills. That’s because,…
Radiation safety session seeks to address variability and improve access to education
“Variability is a source of inferior quality, poor outcomes and harm,” says Anil Hingorani, MD, vascular surgeon at New York University (NYU) Langone in Brooklyn, speaking to VS@VAM ahead of Thursday morning’s VAM 2024 session on the past, present and…
APP united: Society for Vascular Nursing and SVS PA Section to host immersive program
The Society for Vascular Nursing (SVN) is again hosting its 42nd Annual Conference June 19–20 at McCormick Place alongside VAM 2024. This year’s meeting offers attendees a diverse offering, including an immersive program that will merge with the SVS Physician…
Analysis will kickstart conversation on F/BEVAR outcomes
New data presented during Friday’s Plenary Session 6 (10–11 a.m. in the West Building, Skyline Ballroom) will shed light on trends in the adoption of fenestrated and branched endovascular aortic repair (F/BEVAR) outside of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Investigational…
Artificial intelligence: Breakfast session explores opportunities and risks for vascular surgery
The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) in vascular surgery holds great promise to optimize the delivery of care, with prospective uses including patient selection and procedural planning. Yet, challenges remain. Many still view AI with suspicion, and important ethical and…
Pediatric vascular trauma: ‘Collaboration really matters in this space’
The focus of yesterday’s American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA)-SVS task force’s spring quarterly interest group meeting at VAM 2024 was the “incredibly crucial” topic of pediatric trauma, as described by co-moderator John White, MD. Various speakers shared a series of…
Endovascular CFA treatment associated with increased rate of long-term CFA-specific reintervention, study finds
A recent study suggests that endovascular treatment of the common femoral artery (CFA) is associated with an increased rate of long-term CFA-specific reintervention, regardless of indication. Nicholas Wells, MA, a medical student at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven,…
Unmet needs and paradigm shifts: VESS scientific sessions set to plumb the vasculature for advances in practice
Selected research to be presented during the Wednesday afternoon, June 19, series of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society (VESS) Scientific Sessions (from 1:30 p.m. onward in the West Building, Level 1) will highlight areas of unmet need and offer paradigm-shifting…
Toe and flow session aims to break down barriers to multidisciplinary limb salvage teams
If you had cancer you would go to a cancer center where you would get a multidisciplinary approach,” SVS President Joseph Mills, MD, tells VS@VAM, drawing on this example to highlight the importance of multidisciplinary teams for amputation prevention in…
SVS, AVF bring the latest innovations in venous disease treatment to VAM
During the first day of VAM 2024, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and American Venous Forum (AVF) have co-sponsored a session on the latest innovations in the delivery of venous disease treatment. Madhavi Meka, MD, a clinical associate professor…