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A brilliant plan to increase vascular surgeons’ income—and decrease the incidence of stroke!
I have come up with a brilliant plan that will decrease the incidence of stroke nationwide, provide an excellent source of income for vascular surgeons, and reduce vascular surgeons’ stress and burnout. My concept is based on two recent trends in the management of patients at risk for carotid territory stroke. First, medical management is…
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VQI analysis links high levels of neighborhood deprivation to more severe PAD
Patients categorized as living in neighborhoods with high levels of disadvantage under the Area Deprivation Index (ADI) measure of community adversity have more advanced peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and lower rates of revascularization versus amputation, a new retrospective analysis of Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) data demonstrates. The study, led by senior author Marc Schermerhorn, MD,…
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Engaging with primary care providers ‘critically important’ to improving AAA screening
Matthew Mell, MD, has spent a lot of time looking into issues around screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs). The problem, says the chief of vascular surgery at University of California Davis in Sacramento, California, is a difficult one to shake: “In the U.S., we under-screen.” Mell looks at some of the studies that have…
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SVS charts its course ahead for diversity, equity and inclusion
Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) President Michael Dalsing, MD, has added two more liaisons—Vincent Rowe, MD, and Palma Shaw, MD—to the SVS Executive Board to “increase the diversity of perspective.” They will serve for the remainder of the fiscal year and join Linda Harris, MD, the recently re-elected representative of the SVS Strategic Board of…
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DEI initiatives in vascular surgery: How are we doing?
The 2022 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) has been touted as the most diverse to date. As attendees ourselves, we can attest to the increased representation among attendees, presenters and moderators. A dedicated session, named “Building diversity and equitable systems in vascular surgery,” should have been the perfect setting for the membership and leadership to showcase…
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Limb salvage in focus: New VAM lectureship, born of a pioneering spirit, thrills honoree
It all started around the late 1970s, early 1980s. Back then, recalls Frank J. Veith, MD, the notion of aggressively pursuing limb salvage in a gangrenous foot or toe went against the grain of current thinking. What Veith and his colleagues were undertaking represented “very distal bypasses,” and, at the time, what he was doing…
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New data suggest patients at AAA repair thresholds can be safely deferred
Data from the PROVE-AAA cluster-randomized trial (Preferences for open versus endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm) of a novel decision aid to assist veterans decide between their options demonstrated that surgeons can safely defer AAA repair in patients with a 5cm-plus aneurysm diameter “for a moderate time.” Mark A. Eid, MD, a general surgery resident…
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Proposals sought for VAM 2023
Members are still raving about the 2022 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) even while organizers seek topics for educational sessions for the 2023 edition. Proposals are due at 3 p.m. Central Time on Wednesday, Aug. 24. Submissions for the invited sessions opened today. “As vascular surgeons, we know what issues we come up against frequently—such…
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Leadership program applications due by Aug. 15
Learn to be a leader or enhance your leadership skills—applications to be part of the fourth cohort of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Leadership Development Program (LDP) are due Aug. 15. The year-long, highly interactive learning experience is recommended for those five to 10 years out of training. The aim is to help participants…
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Pioneering center reports ‘moderate’ success rate with Fiber Optic RealShape technology in first 50 patients
Vascular surgeons from the medical center that pioneered use of the radiation-lowering Fiber Optic RealShape (FORS) imaging modality reported a 62% technical success rate using the first-generation version of the technology across the first 50 procedures performed. The data were reported at the 2022 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in Boston (June 15–18) by Giuseppe Panuccio,…