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Corner Stitch: Becoming a community-engaged vascular surgeon
At the end of my intern year, I was tired. It had been a long year of rounding, placing orders, seeing consults and refining basic suturing skills on primarily general surgery rotations—an experience not dissimilar from many of my fellow…
Service: Giving back
Pioneering American Venous Forum (AVF) and Eastern Vascular Society (EVS) efforts aimed at breaking down barriers to care and educating patients in economically challenged communities on vascular disease have yielded early gains over the first two events staged this year.…
Female patients found to be at increased risk from adverse outcomes after an ALI diagnosis
Results from a new study highlighting that female patients are at increased risk of adverse outcomes after acute limb ischemia (ALI) lend weight to the possibility of underdiagnosis and management of vascular disease among women, the authors behind the research…
Study details aspects of early care improvements after publication of SVS appropriate use criteria for claudication
An observational study of intermittent claudication (IC) practice patterns before and after publication of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) appropriate use criteria (AUC) for IC management points to a series of areas where care has improved, alongside aspects still…
A team sport: A prescription for the future of vascular surgery
Outgoing Eastern Vascular Society (EVS) President Kathleen Ozsvath, MD, used her presidential swansong to address the needs of those practicing the specialty moving forward, combining themes of family, collaboration, and diversity, equity and inclusion. Ozsvath, who serves as chief of…
Eastern Vascular Society presidency transfers from Ozsvath to Lal
Brajesh K. Lal, MD, assumed the Eastern Vascular Society (EVS) presidency during the 2024 EVS annual meeting in Charleston, South Carolina (Sept. 19–22). The professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore took over from…
‘Select CLTI patients may be safely treated in the office-based lab’
Results from a single-center analysis show the outpatient setting met SVS objective performance goals. A retrospective study of endovascular interventions performed for chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) in an office-based lab (OBL) associated with a large New York City medical center…