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Shockwave Medical announces new CMS codes for intravascular lithotripsy
Shockwave Medical has announced new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) codes for intravascular lithotripsy (IVL), a procedure performed in peripheral arteries in both hospital outpatient and inpatient settings. The new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) outpatient and…
Crawford Critical Issues Forum 2020 echoes founding charge
This year’s E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum is set to come full circle from its very genesis 32 years ago at the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in Chicago. Now a lynchpin of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) flagship…
Dispatches: COVID-19 and getting to grips with a new vascular order
At first there was chaos. Then came adaptation and recognition of what was coming down the pipe—followed by assimilation into a new kind of order. Now that much of the U.S. healthcare community is coming to terms with the effects…
BD acquires Straub Medical
Straub Medical, which manufactures, develops and sells medical devices for the treatment of arterial and venous diseases, has been acquired by Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD). Straub Medical devices are used worldwide by vascular surgeons and interventional specialists in radiology,…
SVS issues statement abhorring injustice and violence amid unrest in US
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS) today issued a joint statement in support of diversity as the U.S. continues to boil after African American man George Floyd died at the…
Nearly 70% of CX 2020 LIVE global aortic audience finds type II endoleak without sac expansion harmless
A global audience tuned into the second session and inaugural aortic offering of CX 2020 LIVE. With registrations now well over 4,000, the pioneering virtual vascular conference continues to attract delegates from far and wide. In this session, presentations, polling and…
Researchers: No benefit for doxycycline used to avoid surgery for AAA
A new study by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore found that patients with an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) received no benefits from taking a common antibiotic drug to reduce inflammation. Patients who took the…
SVS acknowledges industry partners springing to aid of vascular community
It has recently come to the attention of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) that many of our industry partners are generously donating equipment and products to the vascular community during the COVID-19 pandemic. To shine a light on that…
CX 2020 LIVE pioneers virtual vascular conference format in COVID-19 era
CX 2020 LIVE came to life online—despite COVID-19—using state-of-the art broadcast technology to bring together more than 1,000 vascular specialists, live, from 95 countries across the world. The first session of the highly interactive conference, designed to deliver global vascular education…
SVS ONLINE: Virtual program and associated events take shape
Planning continues unabated for the highly anticipated SVS ONLINE, set to kick off June 20 and run through July 2 in lieu of the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), with registration opening June 1. Attendees can look forward to two Annual…