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Dispatches from the vascular front: A view of COVID-19’s impact on hard-hit NYC
Sharif Ellozy, MD, has had just about as near to a front row seat as it gets to the part of the United States worst-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic—short of operating as an intensive care unit (ICU) or emergency room…
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 the coronavirus pandemic continues to run rampant. The Task Force—set to become a full-fledged committee—has gone…
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 fallout from future outbreaks—has acquired Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval. With members spread across 30 different…
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 from June 17–20 amid the continuing surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. In its place, the SVS…
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 their areas: the redeployment of vascular surgeons and trainees to other areas of care. It formed…
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 then hit like a brick, creating a national emergency. It is almost difficult to remember what…
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 Continuous exposure to moral distress leads to moral injury. The term “moral injury” was first described…
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 of daily life like economic vitality and job function. Each applies unequivocally to vascular surgeons, not…
CMSS urges strong action ‘to ensure safer working conditions’ for frontline medical professionals
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 belief that all frontline healthcare professionals must have access to personal protective equipment (PPE) and be…
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 concerns over personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages as the COVID-19 pandemic cuts trails across the country.…