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Unmet needs and paradigm shifts: VESS scientific sessions set to plumb the vasculature for advances in practice
Selected research to be presented during the Wednesday afternoon, June 19, series of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society (VESS) Scientific Sessions (from 1:30 p.m. onward in the West Building, Level 1) will highlight areas of unmet need and offer paradigm-shifting…
Welcome to VAM 2024!
To help us preview some of the sessions of interest I reached out to the chairs of the SVS Program and Postgraduate Education Committees—Andy Schanzer, Jason Lee, Will Robinson, and Claudie Sheahan. I’ll let you guess which one did not…
VESS 2024: Determining success in vascular surgery across the generations
Outgoing Vascular & Endovascular Surgery Society (VESS) President Mark Conrad, MD, used the 2024 VESS presidential address to illustrate how he got into vascular surgery, what determines success for different generations, what does and does not factor into building a…
Corner Stitch: On the vascular trainee opportunities on the conference calendar
Christopher Audu, MD, surveys the 2024 meeting landscape, highlighting prime opportunities for trainees to showcase their research. It is abstract submission, and this month I wanted to highlight a few national meetings that are “trainee friendly” for getting your work…
Prepare to submit research for VAM 2024
Organizing a Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) takes a whole lot of time and a whole lot of long-range planning. Thus, members of the SVS Postgraduate Education Committee (PGEC) have already evaluated the 90 submitted proposals (an SVS record) for educational…
SVS-VESS@VAM 2023: Observational study addresses ‘ongoing debate’ around intervention in asymptomatic carotid patients
Alessandro Gregio, MD, a vascular surgery trainee at the University of Bologna in Bologna, Italy, presented midterm results from the Carotid asymptomatic stenosis observational study during the first of two SVS-VESS (Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Society) Scientific Sessions yesterday afternoon.…
‘Time matters’: New study finds novel EHR workflow improves timeliness in vascular care
A novel, order-initiated workflow facilitated by the electronic health record (EHR) has been shown to improve timeliness of care for vascular surgery patients, decreasing time to operation and working to standardize and automate the consultation process. Presented at the 2023…
Analysis finds no difference in TCAR outcomes between academic, community hospitals
A new study found no difference in perioperative outcomes and incidence of adverse events at follow-up after transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) between academic and non-teaching community institutions. Presented at the 2023 winter annual meeting of the Vascular and Endovascular Surgery…
VESS 2023: pMAC score found to be ‘important predictor’ of CLTI revascularization outcomes
Having observed a strong relationship between calcification and subsequent limb loss, a research team led by investigators from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) have conducted a single-center, retrospective follow-up extending an initial study evaluating pedal medial arterial calcification…
Back to basics: All the things I love about vascular surgery
Recently, after completing a difficult open aortic operation with my attending, a bright M3 asked me, “Why vascular surgery?” The question didn’t catch me off guard, as I always have a ready answer, and we had just finished a pretty…