Tag: limb salvage
Early vascular evaluation can “significantly supplement” wound healing and limit resource...
“Our findings ultimately suggest that vascular evaluation within six weeks of wound appearance can significantly supplement wound healing in wound centres,” said Saranya Sundaram,...
Study finds dedicated clinics achieve higher rate of amputation-free survival in...
Presenting podium-first data on specialist chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI) clinics and rates of amputation, Assad Khan (Leeds, United Kingdom) provided an argument for “favourable”...
Humacyte’s Human Acellular Vessel for limb salvage evaluated in multiple complex...
Humacyte today announced results from the first series of compassionate use cases of the company’s investigational Human Acellular Vessel (HAV) for the treatment of...
Introduction of dedicated vascular limb salvage clinic improves one-year amputation outcomes...
One-year outcomes of patients with chronic-limb threatening ischaemia (CLTI) treated in an outpatient-based vascular limb salvage clinic show an improved rate of major amputation....
“Simple changes” enable vascular limb salvage clinic to maintain a service...
“Simple changes can allow for an effective vascular limb salvage service to continue during the extremes of the pandemic,” Andrew Nickinson (University of...
Multidisciplinary team approach needed for limb salvage and treatment of wounds
“When it comes to complicated wounds, it is important to acknowledge that we cannot do it alone,” argued David Davidson (Buffalo Medical Group, Buffalo,...
Multidisciplinary team approach needed for limb salvage and treatment of wounds
“When it comes to complicated wounds, it is important to acknowledge that we cannot do it alone,” argued David Davidson (Buffalo Medical Group, Buffalo,...
Vascular limb salvage (VaLS) clinic helps to meet the VSGBI time-to-treatment...
Described as “deliberately challenging”, the new time-to-treatment targets published by the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland (VSGBI), as part of the Peripheral...
Outpatient wound care centre at Stanford University has “positive impact” on...
There is a growing need for wound care amid higher rates of chronic wounds—somewhere in the vicinity of five to seven million in the...
SVS 2019: Multidisciplinary limb salvage teams produce “excellent results”
Caitlin Hicks (Baltimore, USA) talks to BLearning at SVS 2019 (Society for Vascular Surgery; 12–15 June; Washington DC, USA) about why it is so...
