Tag: COVID-19
More than half of medical students altered Match ranking order after...
Amid the build-up to residency Match Day 2024, the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS) has delivered data from a VISIT (Vascular...
EU ministers approve changes to MDR transition timetable
The European Union’s Council of Ministers has today adopted a resolution to extend the deadline for the certification of medical devices under the Medical...
‘SVS Presents’ provides enhanced learning opportunities
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) will debut “SVS Presents” April 12, a monthly webinar series that provides an evening of educational programming for...
Has the risk in the value-based payment model been sold as...
Value-based payments (VBP), or “volume to value,” was the new buzz word over a decade ago, promising yet another chimera in ways to reimburse...
Envision, private equity and patient care: Substituted values 2.0
He was only 41, already burdened with multiple health problems. Diabetes, hypertension and renal failure had put him on dialysis, caused the amputation of...
VSGBI spotlights data-driven financial incentives for PAD revascularization
The President’s Symposium at the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland (VSGBI) annual scientific meeting (Nov. 23–25) in Brighton, England, saw Rob Sayers,...
EU Commission to propose delay to MDR implementation
Europe’s health commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, has announced that proposals to extend the transition period for the implementation of the European Union’s (EU) Medical Device...
Virtual visits versus in-person: Telemedicine study detects ‘substantial’ cost savings for...
Virtual consultations appear comparable to care received in-person when it comes to clinical outcomes as well as patient and practitioner satisfaction, a systematic review...
SVS weighs in on 2023 Medicare payment rules for physicians and...
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has submitted comment letters in response to the proposed rules issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
Trial supports full-dose anticoagulation to prevent blood clots in COVID-19 patients
Treatment of critically ill COVID-19 patients with full-dose anticoagulation lowers the risk of venous and arterial clotting complications by 44% compared with the standard dose, according to late...
ALI can occur with or without atherosclerotic disease, portends worse prognosis...
Acute limb ischemia (ALI) can occur with or without atherosclerotic disease and portends a worse prognosis in patients with COVID-19. This risk persists after...
VAM 2022 Opening Ceremony: ‘Our Society is what it is because...
From the first Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) that featured just eight papers, to VAM 2022 with many more times that number of presentations, each...
Getting the most out of meetings like VAM
It’s Friday at Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) 2022 in Boston! Hopefully, many of us trainees are getting to mingle and meet leaders in the...
Register today for two SVS courses
Registration has opened—along with early-bird pricing—for two Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) in-person courses in coding and reimbursement, and peripheral artery disease (PAD) skills....
Collaborators not cases: Engaging patients with aortic dissections as partners in...
To date, research in aortic dissection has focused on management and outcomes focused on technical results, and survival. Little is known about what is...
Medical students reach out to hemodialysis community in times of COVID-19
As president of the Louisiana State University (LSU) Vascular Surgery Interest Group (VSIG), I’ve been eagerly exploring opportunities to engage with community members and...
Peer-reviewed COVID-19 archive grows
Two years in, an indicator of COVID-19’s continuing presence in the world is the growth of the “COVID-19 Collection” in the pages of the...
The pandemic has been a challenge, but perhaps it imposed some...
Years from now when we look back, will we measure time in terms of B.C. and A.C.—Before Covid and After Covid? It’s hard to...
Lesson learned: Entering vascular residency during first wave of pandemic
An insight into the benefits of virtual learning from the perspective of a medical student on the cusp of residency as the early stages...
SVS PAC: A voice for vascular surgeons on Capitol Hill
As everyone turned the page on 2021 and entered 2022 with a new hope for a return to normalcy, vascular surgeons continue to be...
VRIC input in 2021 helped strengthen research, says award-winner
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Vascular Research Initiatives Conference (VRIC) in 2021 helped Sriganesh (Sri) Sharma, MD, better understand his own work.
During the...
Diversity efforts while in training: Is it just another box to...
2020 was a herald year. It ushered in a global pandemic and a reckoning with issues of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in our...
Vascular Specialist–February 2022
In this issue:
"Vital signs": Reporting from the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) annual meeting on skyrocketing nursing costs and their contribution to...
Priorities and objectives will guide 2022 SVS programs
Whether it’s branding, advocacy or determining research initiatives, the process of setting Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) priorities and objectives begins with SVS members....
Strength in numbers: Global VASCC COVID-19 project helps identify framework to...
When Robert Cuff, MD, and Max Wohlauer, MD, first launched the Vascular Surgery COVID-19 Collaborative (VASCC) back in the spring of 2020, the pandemic...
SAVS 2022: Skyrocketing vascular nursing costs hammer division’s financial bottom line
The profit margin of a vascular surgery division at a prominent health system in New Orleans was severely eroded during the COVID-19 pandemic period—despite...
Corner Stitch: From intentions to gratitude in 2022
A time of transition, like the dawn of a New Year, usually commences the mass drive for New Year’s resolutions and intentions. Many of...
Vascular Specialist–January 2022
In this issue:
"Strength in numbers": Global VASCC COVID-19 registries have already helped identify a framework to tackle delayed cases with applicability both inside...
New recommendations promote ‘appropriate and effective’ use of social media in...
In response to a rapid augmentation of social media use in medicine over the past five years, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has...
Our forever plague
The following is a combined and revised version of the November and December 2021 editorials on fake news and science denial published in Vascular...
SVS PAD course postponed
The new Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) Skills Course has been postponed amid the COVID-19 pandemic recent surge in cases,...
VRIC 2022 to be held May 11 in Seattle
The Society for Vascular Surgery’s 2022 Vascular Research Initiatives Conference (VRIC) will return to its spring timeframe of the past several years.
Abstract submission...
New ACS president aims to sow seeds of hope for enhanced...
Former Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) President Julie A. Freischlag recently took over the presidential reins of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). Here...
Re-emerging from the pandemic: ‘What truly motivates us?’
How to find “flow” and motivation through goal setting, and reacquainting with “intrinsic priorities” on the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic, formed the...
We need voices as well as opinions
I have a message for my colleagues on behalf of Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Political Action Committee (PAC), quoting the famous lines from...
Researchers develop ‘world’s first’ smart bandage that detects multiple biomarkers for...
A research team led by Lim Chwee Teck, PhD, from the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Health...
Julie A. Freischlag becomes president of American College of Surgeons
Newly installed American College of Surgeons (ACS) President Julie A. Freischlag, MD, called for her fellow surgeons to apply the principles that underpin enhanced...
MVSS 2021: Midwestern Vascular unveils 2021–22 leadership changes
The Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society (MVSS) announced a new slate of officers at its 2021 annual meeting held in Chicago from Sept. 9–11. Raghu...
Dalman: Meeting challenges of COVID-19, SVS future direction head-on
In his introduction to the second of two Presidential Addresses on the 2021 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) slate, new Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS)...
Pandemic affected surgeons financially and emotionally, COVID-19 session hears
Besides the stunning death toll and the disruption of life around the world, COVID-19 hit vascular surgeons financially and emotionally. Two presenters at the...
VRIC trainee award winners announced
The SVS Foundation has announced the four recipients for the Vascular Research Initiatives Conference (VRIC) Trainee Award.
The SVS Basic and Translational Research Committee...
SVN conference set to provide valuable information for all in vascular...
The Society for Vascular Nursing (SVN) annual meeting this year will cover the gamut of information for all vascular nursing career stages—from novice to...
Map out your VAM experience with the Online Planner
Get a jump start on planning your way through the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) with the SVS Online Planner. It includes the entire VAM...
UPMC study probing stress-reduction interventions among high-burden specialties begins enrollment
A new study aiming to establish whether a series of mindfulness and physical interventions can help reduce stress and burnout among physicians who treat...
The choice between autonomy, true partnership—or the slow drift to ‘thralldom‘
Anthony Valdés, MBA, the president of Tampa, Florida-based Collaborative Health Systems, declares that what physicians want is to “deliver great clinical outcomes, get paid...
The year in COVID: VAM to feature 10 talks probing pandemic-related...
After nearly 18 months of life dominated by a worldwide pandemic—one that canceled the 2020 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM)—VAM 2021 highlights several aspects of...
‘COVID-19 sparks diabetic macrophage inflammation’—award-winning paper
When patients with diabetes are infected with coronavirus, specialized macrophage cells—already primed to develop excessive inflammation in this population—are further transformed into a pathologically...
Corner Stitch: Acing the final training years
In academia, the start of summer brings about new beginnings and a changing of the guard. Chief residents and senior fellows graduate and start...
WFVS undergoes transformation, looks for vascular ’haves‘ to better help ‘have...
The World Federation of Vascular Societies (WFVS) has entered a new era of transformation, seeking to better pave the way for disparate vascular surgeons...
OBL: Keys to success in the outpatient setting
The ability to pivot in the face of changes to reimbursement while still meeting the needs of patients is a key facet of success...
AVFs contribute to higher survival of hemodialysis patients with COVID-19
A new study, published online in The Journal of Vascular Access (JVA), suggests that arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) contribute to higher survival of hemodialysis patients with COVID-19. Authors Ahmet Murt,...
SVS: Progress made during year like no other
While the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects dominated 2020–21 fiscal year—including the cancellation of the live 2020 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM)—it did not deter...
Study provides new insights on COVID-19 risk in patients receiving dialysis
Many individuals with kidney failure have been unable to self-isolate during the COVID-19 pandemic because they require dialysis treatments in clinics several times a...
The top 10 most popular stories from April
Our April cover story on the links between electronic health records (EHRs) and physician burnout, the continuing problem of manels (or all-male speaking panels)...
Patients with AAAs who had COVID-19 may need ‘more frequent surveillance’...
Patients who have known abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), who may have had a COVID-19 infection, might need to have more frequent or a different...
Next SVS Town Hall to discuss post-pandemic practice
The next SVS Town Hall will deal with vascular practice's path forward from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The event is intended to help...
‘Latinx’: How to understand and use the term
Three members of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee, chaired by Vincent M. Rowe, MD, explain use and...
Ramped-up productivity incentives and a deadly down slope
The healthcare system always conducts a “root cause” analysis when a medical error occurs. It looks for a systemic problem to address in order to...
SVS Foundation work continues during year of challenges
Despite it being a year unlike any other, the increased generosity of the SVS Foundation donors allowed for the mission work to continue as...
Key MACRA changes highlighted
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) is in its fifth calendar year, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues...
VESAP5 mobile app now available
The mobile app for the fifth edition Vascular Educational Self-Assessment Program (VESAP5)—for both Android and Apple operating systems—is now available. Apple users need to...
Corriere: Meetings about meetings and how not to have a bad...
The past year in which the concept of “the meeting” shifted almost entirely into the digital realm challenged everything from the constitution of the...
‘Leading when everyone is watching—and when no one knows what to...
The title of the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) Jesse E. Thompson, MD, Distinguished Guest Lecture was heralded as “Leading when everyone is...
New SVS online portal heralds vascular education ‘on the go’
To great excitement on the part of leaders and members, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has launched its new Education Portal, the online...
SVS PAC recaps 2020, offers goals for 2021
It is difficult to put 2020 into words. However, despite everything bad that has gone on in the U.S. and nationally, the SVS PAC...
UPDATED: First post-virus vascular meeting with in-person element declared success
The first major conference in the vascular surgery universe to incorporate an in-person element as part of a hybrid format has been declared a...
Why VAM was shifted to August amid COVID-19 vaccination rollout
To enhance the chances of being able to hold the 2021 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in-person, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has moved...
COVID-19 pandemic led to ‘severe’ financial loss for academic vascular surgery...
The initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in three-month sustained decreases in operative and outpatient clinical volume as well as a “severe” financial...
System outage alert: Cyberattack sends medicine back to paper age
On Oct. 28, 2020, the University of Vermont Health Network—consisting of six hospitals in Vermont and upstate New York, was hit by a cyberattack.1...
Target 2021: SVS councils and committees drill down on key goals...
While there is little doubt the pandemic has impacted each vascular surgeon and the SVS as a Society in numerous ways, the commitment and...
A healing touch
Since March 2020, my life has literally spiraled out of control both personally and professionally. The COVID-19 pandemic shattered my life, and I am...
Inaugural leadership program overcomes pandemic difficulties
The inaugural cohort of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Leadership Development Program had to show some resilience early. Not long after the initiative’s...
Vascular surgery COVID-19 registry participants probe state of practice amid winter...
The question of the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on vascular practice continues to occupy members of the specialty. Contributors to a global vascular surgery registry...
COVID-related hypercoagulability linked to elevated malfunction rate in temporary hemodialysis catheters
Hypercoagulability in COVID-19 patients leads to an increase in the malfunction rate of temporary hemodialysis catheters—but heparin locking of the catheters is linked to...
VAM 2021 taking shape, schedule changes to expand programming
Though many individual components will remain the same, the 2021 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) will have a different look and feel.
"The meeting has...
Present imperfect
On the morning of Nov. 9, I received a phone call from my sister. My father had been found unresponsive in his Manhattan apartment...
President Dalman reflects on year of adversity—and positive change
The last nine months took away much. The Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) was canceled. The Vascular Research Initiatives Conference (VRIC) suffered a similar fate—its...
‘Smile’ to benefit SVS Foundation
The holidays are close upon us, and many Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) members will be shopping online this month and next.
The COVID-19...
Dig deep this Giving Tuesday
Will you give on Giving Tuesday? This will be the SVS Foundation’s third year marking the annual global day of giving—Dec. 1, this year—which...
‘Alea iacta est’: The case for endovascular methods in vascular trauma...
When Benjamin W. Starnes, MD, talks vascular trauma, he does so from a position of certain authority. As the recent Southern California Vascular Surgical...
SVS PAC: We know who you are—do you know who we...
Let’s start with our mission statement: We at the SVS Political Action Committee (PAC) exist as the fundraising arm for the advancement of the...
NYC study shows 50% limb salvage rate in COVID-19 patients with...
Data gathered from patients presenting with acute limb ischemia (ALI) during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic at the heart of New York City—a...
Quality Payment Program: The proposed updates slated for 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on surgery and medicine continues, prompting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to propose changes in year five...
With an eye on the past, SVS Foundation looking ahead to...
Before we can look to where we’re going, we need to look to where we’ve been. And we do just that, in the pages...
Science at twilight: Reasserting our democratic responsibility
Thomas Jefferson sat alone in a Philadelphia boarding house. He was nervous; much was riding on the words he would now write. The sovereignty...
SVS: Building bridges between twin tracks of academic and private practice
For Laurel Hadley Hastings, MD, membership in the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) provides a great collection of valuable benefits.
They include an ongoing...
President Dalman: SVS Appointments Committee confidential
The success of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) in its many missions is driven by the passion and commitment of its members. Each...
New data support televascular visits to help address rural vascular surgery...
Researchers from the University of Minnesota unveiled new data supporting televascular consultations as a viable solution to the shortage of vascular surgeons in rural...
Leadership: Spotlight on Amy Reed, MD
This interview continues our series of conversations with national vascular surgery leaders based on topics from the Kouznes and Pozner book “The Truth About...
Joint symposium with UCLA returns in virtual form
From Aug. 15 to 30, UCLA will hold its Fifth Annual UCLA/SVS Symposium: A Comprehensive Review and Update of What's New in Vascular and...
Seattle team secures funding to examine COVID-19 impacts on aortic dissection
A team at the University of Washington in Seattle has received a funding award through the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Eugene Washington Engagement...
Study: Stroke risk higher in patients with COVID-19 than influenza
A higher rate of stroke has been reported in adults with COVID-19 compared to a cohort of patients with influenza. A retrospective study published...
SPECIAL REPORT: Vascular surgeons from across world report on early response...
The seismic impact of the novel coronavirus on vascular surgery across the globe continues to be absorbed. Practice changed, and the specialty pivoted to...
SPECIAL REPORT: Across the world—early impact of COVID-19 on vascular surgeons
COVID-19 has changed our world and surgical practices as vascular surgeons. We have been faced with unforeseen challenges, and the professional impact has been...
SPECIAL REPORT: Reacting to virus in key locations across United States
Following on from part one of our June issue special report in which we explored global perspectives on how vascular surgeons were coping with...
COVID-19 survey: Support of hospitals and societies ‘paramount’ to promoting well-being...
Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic practice, anxiety, coping and support survey for vascular surgeons, recently presented in a Special Scientific Session on COVID-19 during SVS ONLINE on June...
Dispatches: Opening up a difficult conversation around systemic racism
Recent times have wrought a potent cocktail of cultural disarray on the psyche of the United States. In medicine and vascular surgery, this confluence...
SVS ONLINE: A meeting of firsts
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) notched up plenty of firsts this year with its virtual meeting, SVS ONLINE: "New Advances and Discoveries in...
Endologix enters into agreement with Deerfield Partners to take company private
Endologix has announced that, after evaluating a variety of strategic options, it has initiated a voluntary Chapter 11 case and simultaneously filed a consensual...
Study shows novel AI technology is better predictor of stroke than...
Boston-based medical technology company Elucid Bio, maker of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared and CE-marked vascuCAP software, announced Wednesday, July 1, that its...
SVS joins Surgical Care Coalition in fight against Medicare cuts
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has joined the Surgical Care Coalition as part of a show of solidarity against pending Centers for Medicare...
Advocating for our members
COVID-19 has altered almost all of our lives to a degree previously unimaginable. Millions of Americans continue to lose their jobs, hundreds of thousands...
Special COVID-19 session added to SVS ONLINE slate
SVS ONLINE will now feature a session that hones in on the coronavirus pandemic, consisting of nine talks dealing with such issues as acute...
Letter from NYC: Lessons learned ahead of possible future waves of...
On March 1, I drove down the Connecticut Turnpike in a rental car with my three sons. We had just left a somber family...
SVS reports on vascular surgeon concerns over pandemic health impacts
Vascular surgeons from across the country are reporting health impacts on some patients—particularly elderly ones—in quarantine, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) reports. The...
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...
Study cites drop in aortic dissection cases in NY during pandemic
In a recently-published study, researchers found a significant drop in acute aortic dissection cases in New York City since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The study—”The...
Dispatches: Vascular surgery and pandemic redeployment in New Orleans
At one point in the COVID-19 pandemic timeline, New Orleans was in a perilous position. In late March, the Louisiana governor reported that the...
Embracing new definition of healthcare as digital age confronts holdouts
There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged our healthcare system like nothing before. We have confronted other diseases like influenza, tuberculosis,...
Registry launches pair of studies on vascular complications related to COVID-19
The new Vascular Surgery COVID-19 Collaborative (VASCC) is ready to start collecting data on two projects.
The first study to emerge from the international registry,...
Report: Safely executing CEA during COVID-19
A carotid endarterectomy (CEA) carried out on a 71-year-old stroke patient who tested positive for COVID-19 is highlighted in a recent case report as an...
COVER study aims to capture impact of COVID-19 on global vascular...
The COVID-19 vascular service (COVER) study, a multinational, prospective, observational study that is aimed at capturing the impact of the pandemic on global vascular...
SVS ONLINE: Carving out virtual version of VAM invited sessions amid...
As Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Postgraduate Education Committee chair Vikram Kashyap, MD, tells it, the organizers behind programming for the Vascular Annual Meeting...
Dispatches from the vascular front: A vascular nursing perspective in times...
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,...
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...
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...
Access JVS collection of papers on COVID-19
The editors of the Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS) group of publications have launched a freely available COVID-19 collection across the JVS family of...
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...
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...
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...
Dispatches from the vascular front: COVID-19 strikes New Jersey like ‘tidal...
Operating in the shadow of New York City, Clifford M. Sales, MD, has had his finger on the pulse of North America's two worst-affected...
Final push: SVS COVID-19 needs assessment survey closes April 24
The SVS Wellness Task Force today announced a final push for respondents to the Society's COVID-19 needs assessment survey. The initiative, designed to help...
COVID-19: Ventilator manufacturers unite to form training alliance
Several of the world’s ventilator manufacturers have formed a Ventilator Training Alliance (VTA) in partnership with Allego to create a mobile app that frontline...
Dispatches from the vascular front: Early steps beyond COVID-19 peak in...
If Seattle and the broader state of Washington provided the vascular care blueprint for how to proceed once the COVID-19 pandemic started to spread...
Dispatches from the vascular front: Consequences of COVID-19 on a Florida...
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have landed like a sledgehammer on vascular surgery, reducing much of practice to a standstill. For those in...
SVS needs assessment survey: Evaluating impact of COVID-19 on vascular surgery
The COVID-19 pandemic has stressed the healthcare workforce with unprecedented challenges, the like of which has not been experienced in a century. In response,...
SVS remains nimble in face of spreading pandemic, pivots to member...
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) started 2020 with plans intensifying for the Vascular Research Initiatives Conference (VRIC) in May, the Vascular Annual Meeting...
COVID-19: Cotton and surgical masks may be ineffective at stopping spread...
In a brief report in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Seongman Bae, MD, of the Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine,...
Dispatches from the vascular front: A view of COVID-19’s impact on...
Sharif Ellozy, MD, has had just about as near to a front row seat as it gets to the part of the United States...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Vascular surgeons discuss COVID-19 impact on pregnancy, family, career
The devastating effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic are multifarious and far-reaching, touching both life and limb themselves as well as less tangible aspects...
CMSS urges strong action ‘to ensure safer working conditions’ for frontline...
In a new statement published on April 2, 2020, all 45 societies represented by the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS)—over 800,000 physicians—emphatically declared their...
ACS defends healthcare workers as PPE shortages lead to acrimony
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) today leapt to the defense of healthcare workers who are heading to work in the face of increasing...
Update on VAM 2020 issued by SVS
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has placed members on notice that the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) slated for June 17–20 in Toronto looks...
Call for older physicians to be protected from COVID-19
Hospitals and government health departments should give careful consideration to the protection of older physicians and nurses in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
CMS announces temporary waivers that include expansion of telehealth coverage
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a series of temporary regulatory waivers and new rules designed to help the U.S....
‘Desperate times require desperate measures,’ SVS Town Hall on COVID-19 hears
The imperatives of preserving personal protective equipment (PPE) in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic were given a robust airing during a Society for...
SVS builds COVID-19 resource page for members
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) understands this is a very trying time for its members and hopes to provide help through various resources....
COVID-19 special: How to be a doctor at the end of...
Vascular Specialist medical editor Malachi Sheahan III, MD, is no stranger to national and international emergencies—from New York City during both the 1990s AIDS...
Integrity of clinical trials should be ‘preserved’ in face of COVID-19
Efforts and resources should be directed toward continuing randomized clinical trials in spite of the specter of the coronavirus pandemic. This is because of...
Vascular surgeons will survive these ‘troubled waters,’ says SVS president
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is a "solidly built bridge" across the troubled waters of the coronavirus pandemic, president Kim Hodgson, MD, today...
Prominent Seattle hospital issues COVID-19 clinical practice guidelines for vascular surgery
A prominent hospital operating on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington state has released a set of clinical practice guidelines for vascular...
Physician-developed respirator device offers one possible solution to PPE shortages
Surgeons and other healthcare professionals aren’t hanging around waiting for depleted personal protective equipment (PPE) to be replenished. Amid COVID-19-related shortages, ingenuity, creativity and...
American College of Surgeons releases new clinical guidance document for elective...
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has issued guidance for surgeons to curtail recommendations for elective surgical procedures to preserve the necessary resources for...
National emergency loosens restrictions on use of telemedicine, says VESS secretary
Performance of telemedicine has been made easier and more accessible after regulations and limitations on its use were waived in the wake of the...
VESS: Vascular surgeons urged to avoid admissions not ‘immediate’ threat to...
Vascular surgeons have been urged to support the health of the entire U.S. population “by immediately reducing resource expenditure, avoiding all surgical admissions unless...
Letter from Seattle: Amid COVID-19 pandemic, time to act is long...
SEATTLE—We live in unprecedented times. On Jan. 19, patient zero arrived in the United States at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport after returning from a visit...