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Taking the lead: The vascular surgeon in the pediatric vascular surgical space
It’s a bit like realigning the narrative, ever so slightly. “I want us to feel, as a collective specialty, that pediatric vascular care falls under our purview,” says Dawn Coleman, MD, a leading voice in the vascular surgical care of…
SVS and APSA convene for quarterly meeting
The SVS and the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA) Pediatric Vascular Surgery Interest Group convened for its quarterly meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 1. The focus of this quarter’s meeting was arterial thrombosis in children. The panel for the meeting was…
Pediatric vascular trauma: ‘Collaboration really matters in this space’
The focus of yesterday’s American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA)-SVS task force’s spring quarterly interest group meeting at VAM 2024 was the “incredibly crucial” topic of pediatric trauma, as described by co-moderator John White, MD. Various speakers shared a series of…
Pediatric vascular care in focus: Raising awareness of supportive care processes
In 2021, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA) established a task force dedicated to optimizing pediatric vascular care through a multidisciplinary educational approach. The task force created a Pediatric Vascular Surgery Interest Group,…
An open letter to the National Rifle Association
Hello, I think it is time we talked about guns. I know you don’t like to discuss these things after a school shooting, so I waited. It has been four months since Uvalde. It seems there have been three more…
A recent snapshot of pediatric vascular trauma injuries
A study of major pediatric vascular injuries delivered in the Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society (VESS) Paper Session during the 2022 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in June found that 70.2% of the cohort analyzed presented with penetrating trauma. More specifically,…
Rare case series shows 100% limb salvage in pediatric bone tumor resections with vascular involvement
A retrospective review of a rare set of pediatric bone tumor resection cases with significant blood vessel involvement has demonstrated 100% limb salvage and 0% local recurrence. The 14-year experience involved 117 cases treated at Louisiana State University (LSU) and…
Task Force to address question: How will we care for pediatric vascular patients?
Along with the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA), the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) plans to minimize and close some very real gaps in vascular care—treating pediatric patients. The two organizations have formed a joint task force on the issue…
VAM: Spotlight on Friday’s sessions
Two days down, two to go. What a Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) it’s been so far! Here are some of the sessions happening today that people will be talking about on Saturday. 6:30 to 8 a.m. There are three more…
Postgraduate courses stacked with key content
Selecting topics for postgraduate courses, concurrent and breakfast sessions, and “Ask the Experts” presentations at the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) is a careful, considered process, Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) program organizers tell Vascular Connections. “We make a very conscious…