Tag: Veterans Affairs

The ‘modern’ VA has made great strides with patient outcomes and...

Data can be granular and clarifying. Conversely, data without appropriate context can lack nuance—like a paint-by-numbers portrait using only one crayon. A recent article publivenshed...

Navigating the red tape: A case for hybrid ORs in the...

The United States military has access to the most cutting-edge equipment to perform its duties, so we should expect nothing less for its veterans....

Early data show ‘dramatic improvement’ in amputation-free survival after initiation of...

This advertorial is sponsored by Tampa General Hospital.  In cases of acute limb ischemia (ALI), time is of the essence, says Charles J. Bailey, MD—from...

Veterans Affairs: A call to surveillance

For many of those injured in combat, the transition in care from the Military Health System (MHS) to the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) can...

Researchers study role of frailty in post-discharge mortality

Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) members have developed new methods and tools to assess patient frailty and possible surgical outcomes more simply before patients...

Tying healthcare waste and spending to productivity incentives

A 74-year-old woman was recently hospitalized for a pulmonary embolus from acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT) of the mildly edematous left lower leg. She...

Innovation within the Veterans Health Administration

If one were to ask the average citizen where cutting-edge technology is developed, the most probable answer would be “private industry”; think Apple, Tesla,...

VA: Cutting through the ‘red tape’ of research

Creating an academic career with a perfect blend of clinical work and protected time for productive research is a struggle for many surgeon-scientists. Many...

Vascular Specialist–January 2022

In this issue: "Strength in numbers": Global VASCC COVID-19 registries have already helped identify a framework to tackle delayed cases with applicability both inside...

Veterans with claudication who undergo revascularization ‘significantly more likely to have...

Patients within the Veterans Affairs Administration healthcare system who underwent an intervention for intermittent claudication (IC) were consistently at three-to-four times greater risk of...