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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…
New data add to body of evidence highlighting ‘importance’ of vascular surgery in trauma center setting
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 firefighter” analogy. A research team that included fourth-year medical student Abigail Hatcher, MS, of Emory University…
EVS 2021: Vascular surgery as ‘an enabling service’ for the wider healthcare system
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 Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, told an Eastern Vascular Society (EVS) annual meeting (Sept. 23–26) issues…
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 represents. These findings by a team of researchers from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers…