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The 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories of November 2022
Among November’s most read Vascular Specialist stories were updates from the BEST-CLI trial in the form of new data and funding; a guest editorial calling for (better) training vis-à-vis counseling patients about their treatment options; news of positive results from…
Virtual visits versus in-person: Telemedicine study detects ‘substantial’ cost savings for patients
Virtual consultations appear comparable to care received in-person when it comes to clinical outcomes as well as patient and practitioner satisfaction, a systematic review and meta-analysis of all primary studies evaluating virtual patient visits in vascular surgery has demonstrated. “The…
Collaborators not cases: Engaging patients with aortic dissections as partners in patient-centered outcomes research
To date, research in aortic dissection has focused on management and outcomes focused on technical results, and survival. Little is known about what is important to patients living with or at risk for aortic dissection. The Aortic Dissection Collaborative was…
Spotlight on Saturday’s sessions
It’s VAM’s final day and it’s a full one, with educational offerings presented from 6:30 a.m. to the meeting’s final moments at 5 p.m. Here is a rundown of what’s on offer throughout the day: 6:30 to 8 a.m. For…
New data support televascular visits to help address rural vascular surgery shortage
Researchers from the University of Minnesota unveiled new data supporting televascular consultations as a viable solution to the shortage of vascular surgeons in rural parts of the United States during the Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society (MVSS) annual meeting held virtually…
Virtual catch-up: Vascular surgery and coming around to telemedicine
Remote treatment of patients, so-called telemedicine, has been around since the 1940s, when it was first used for transmission of radiology images. In later years, remote interaction between physician and patient was predominantly used by medical subspecialties such as behavioral…
Dispatches: Vascular surgery and pandemic redeployment in New Orleans
At one point in the COVID-19 pandemic timeline, New Orleans was in a perilous position. In late March, the Louisiana governor reported that the state bore the highest rate of growth in cases anywhere in the world—and the Big Easy…
Embracing new definition of healthcare as digital age confronts holdouts
There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged our healthcare system like nothing before. We have confronted other diseases like influenza, tuberculosis, AIDS and even the opioid epidemic; but we have never before shut down the world economy…
Dispatches from the vascular front: Embracing telemedicine in COVID-19 era
DALLAS—William P. Shutze, MD, has not long since finished his day’s practice—a shift in which he carried out somewhere in the region of 13 televisits. This is a new era for life in general as the world struggles to adjust…
Telemedicine gets shot in arm from COVID-19
Unintended consequences of COVID-19 are likely to pop up in an untold number of ways. Perhaps one of them could be the more widespread use of telemedicine. That was one of the key messages delivered in the fourth of the…