Tag: vascular assist
CVRx announces new CPT Category I codes for Barostim baroreflex activation...
CVRx, the company behind the Barostim baroreflex activation therapy system, recently announced that the American Medical Association (AMA) has accepted new Current Procedural Terminology...
VAM 2024: Putting out the fires of intraoperative vascular emergencies
A 2024 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM 2024) Education Session taking place on Wednesday, June 19 (3:15–4:45 p.m. in the West Building, Level 1) will...
Need for ‘clear, well-defined guidelines’ in patient selection for surgical implantation...
The emergence of a baroreflex activation therapy device for heart failure patients is drawing in the assistance of the open surgical expertise of vascular...
Vascular branding: Determining a vascular surgeon’s value
A vascular surgeon's value includes far more than direct revenues from procedures performed, said SVS member Robert Tahara, MD, recently. He told surgeons to...
MVSS president outlines why vascular surgery is special and how ‘people...
Outgoing Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society (MVSS) President Jeffrey Jim, MD, used his recent presidential address to call upon vascular surgeons to spread the word...
SVS seeks volunteers to write position paper
Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) members have until July 31 to apply to serve on a new SVS writing group to develop a position...
Trainees: Cases sought for three VAM sessions
Vascular trainees and medical students are invited to submit their best cases for three sessions at the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Vascular Annual...
Vascular Specialist–January 2023
In this issue:
From SAVS 2023: Study probing which CKD patients would benefit most from renal artery stenting points toward those who experience a...
SAVS 2023: Planned and unplanned vascular assists found to improve outcomes
An award-winning paper presented at the 2023 Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) annual meeting in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, established an association between...
Confessions of a dual-trained, dual-practicing vascular-trauma surgeon
Like most of the other readers of Vascular Specialist, I look forward to perusing each release for not just useful information but also insightful...
Vascular surgeons ‘have a role to play’ in transcatheter aortic valve...
Vascular surgery assistance in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) can facilitate safe and effective device introduction through cases involving challenging femoral or iliac access....
Rare case series shows 100% limb salvage in pediatric bone tumor...
A retrospective review of a rare set of pediatric bone tumor resection cases with significant blood vessel involvement has demonstrated 100% limb salvage and...
New data add to body of evidence highlighting ‘importance’ of vascular...
Another study has emerged showing vascular surgery’s heavy intraoperative consult activity in a level 1 trauma center setting, lending further fuel to the “vascular...
EVS 2021: Vascular surgery as ‘an enabling service’ for the wider...
Vascular surgery is as important as anesthesia in providing a safe operating room (OR), Richard Powell, MD, the vascular section chief at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical...
Vascular firefighters: New data highlight ‘essential hospital resource’
New data that analyze the preoperative and intraoperative assistance vascular surgeons provide to other surgical subspecialties underscores “the essential hospital resource” that vascular surgery...