Ego, logistics, money: Overcoming barriers to a successful wound care program

Proper integration of primary care physicians (PCPs) in the multidisciplinary care of vascular wounds is going to play an increasingly important role as the popularity of the team approach spreads, according to a leading voice in the treatment of peripheral…
ABCs for the treatment of lower-extremity acute DVTs

Ashish Gupta, MD, outlines his ABCs for confronting and treating patients with acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT) of the lower extremity, and how he developed his dictums. A is for “anticoagulation” for not more than six months of duration. Rationale:…
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…

