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SVS ONLINE: Carving out virtual version of VAM invited sessions amid COVID-19
As Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Postgraduate Education Committee chair Vikram Kashyap, MD, tells it, the organizers behind programming for the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) had never before been confronted with such a mammoth task. Like it did in all…
Dispatches from the vascular front: A vascular nursing perspective in times of COVID-19
For almost the first month after COVID-19 hit New Orleans with a vengeance, vascular nurse Jayme Boudreaux, APRN, found herself largely stuck at home, desperate to redeploy in anyway she could to do her bit to help stop the virus…
Dispatches from the vascular front: Embracing telemedicine in COVID-19 era
DALLAS—William P. Shutze, MD, has not long since finished his day’s practice—a shift in which he carried out somewhere in the region of 13 televisits. This is a new era for life in general as the world struggles to adjust…
Medical care in time of coronavirus: Handling patients without COVID-19
The patient was thin, pale and clearly frightened, although he tried not to show it. With poor English skills, he patiently sat on the examining table trying to understand what I was saying. His wife and two small children sat…
‘Risk prediction models can be used for targeted screening for asymptomatic carotid stenosis,’ researchers find
Most prediction models can “reliably” identify individuals at high risk of significant asymptomatic carotid stenosis (ACS), a new study shows. Michael H. F. Poorthuis, MD, of the Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit in the Nuffield Department of…
Med students: Q&A webinar on vascular specialty slated for May 13
An event aimed at attracting medical students to the vascular specialty has been organized by the Society of Vascular Surgery (SVS), the Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society (VESS) and the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS). The three…
SVS ONLINE: Call for pandemic-focused late-breaking abstracts
Over the course of the summer, SVS ONLINE will provide attendees with an innovative program featuring both live webinars and on-demand sessions. The event will deliver scientific abstracts and an educational component focused on timely and relevant content. To address…
Telemedicine gets shot in arm from COVID-19
Unintended consequences of COVID-19 are likely to pop up in an untold number of ways. Perhaps one of them could be the more widespread use of telemedicine. That was one of the key messages delivered in the fourth of the…
CMS outlines recommendations for re-starting non-emergent procedures
On 18 March, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recommended “limiting non-essential care and expanding surge capacity into ambulatory surgical centers and other areas” to conserve resources and staff for managing COVID-19 patients. In a statement issued on…
Global vascular community addresses geographic disparity in COVID-19 impact and response
LONDON—Last week, the Charing Cross (CX) Symposium 2020 would have taken place in the U.K. capital. To mark the occasion virtually, experts from across the globe took part in a wide-ranging, informal chat to share the impact of the COVID-19…