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Philips expands commercial availability of LumiGuide imaging system
Philips has announced the expanded commercial availability of LumiGuide 3D device guidance—the much-heralded first real-time artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled light-based navigation solution for image-guided therapy—across Europe and the U.S. LumiGuide integrates with Philips’ Azurion platform, which is designed to drive procedural…
‘Ask not what vascular surgery can do for you… ask what it can do to you’
During his own recent presidential address on home turf, Patrick Muck, MD, invoked immortable words from the inaugural address of President John F. Kennedy to make a very serious point about radiation safety in vascular care: “Ask not what vascular…
Closer to the goal: Shoring up data behind breakthrough imaging technology that plots a radiation-free future in new RCT
UMass chief peers down the lens of an if-not radiation-free complex aortic procedural future, then one in which the methods of today will look positively quaint. “I say this a lot,” says Andres Schanzer, MD, “but I think there is…
Study details radiation exposure learning curve among vascular trainees
The importance of radiation safety training for vascular surgery trainees was highlighted by a recent study that detailed a learning curve effect between first- and second-year fellows performing fluoroscopically guided interventions. Using optically stimulated dosimeters fitted outside and under lead…
Radiation safety session seeks to address variability and improve access to education
“Variability is a source of inferior quality, poor outcomes and harm,” says Anil Hingorani, MD, vascular surgeon at New York University (NYU) Langone in Brooklyn, speaking to VS@VAM ahead of Thursday morning’s VAM 2024 session on the past, present and…
VESAP5: Now up to 25% off
With the expiration of the fifth edition of the Vascular Education and Self-Assessment Program (VESAP5) in July, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is offering a discount of up to 25% on the program for a limited time. The discount…
How a multidisciplinary team meets the complex challenges of fixing failed EVARs
This advertorial is sponsored by Tampa General Hospital. The Aortic Disease Program at Tampa General Hospital’s Heart & Vascular Institute is no stranger to the challenges of complex care. Situated in the population center of Tampa, Florida, in the nation’s…
WVS 2022: New evidence of radiation reduction benefit emerges
Surgical augmented intelligence in the form of 3D mapping during complex aortic procedures can decrease radiation exposure, fluoroscopy time and contrast use when combined with real-time fluoroscopic images, a new analysis has established The results were presented during the 2022…
Radiation protection: Lightweight shield designed to reduce dose during complex endovascular procedures gains ground
It all started with a “we should do research together; this is fascinating.” The result—the production of a prototype eyewear that decreases radiation to the eye and brain—is the more-than-decade-long toil of Melissa Kirkwood, MD, and colleagues at UT Southwestern…
Powell: Studies linking EVAR and cancer risk continue to mount
Evidence continues to accumulate of a link between endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) and cancer, with even small amounts of radiation potentially converting epithelial cells “to a precancerous or a cancerous state in smokers or ex-smokers,” according to world-renowned vascular disease…