Tag: Society for Vascular Surgery
Mainstream media dig deeper into atherectomy use in the USA, SVS...
Further reports on the use of atherectomy in the USA this week appeared in ProPublica. The nonprofit investigative news outlet shared three articles in...
SVS Foundation adds two surgeons to board of directors
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Foundation has announced the appointment of Bernadette Aulivola and Vikram Kashyap to its board of directors. Both will...
Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative reaches milestone 1,000 centres...
The Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative (SVS VQI) clinical registry recently announced it has achieved another milestone, with more than 1,000 centres...
“Urgent action needed” to improve implementation of guideline-directed medical therapy for...
Almost one-half of the patients receiving a peripheral vascular intervention (PVI) in the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) registry between...
Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative celebrates one million procedures
The Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative (SVS VQI) clinical registry announced this week it has now collected more than one million procedures...
Silk Road Medical announces expanded Medicare coverage for TCAR in standard...
Silk Road Medical recently announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), through collaboration with the Society of Vascular Surgery’s Patient Safety...
SVS president, JVS editors respond to controversial paper furor
Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) president Ronald L Dalman (Stanford University, Stanford, USA) has pledged that the SVS and its flagship title the Journal...
SVS Crawford Forum sets the stage for vascular surgery future
The E Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum, which took place on the first day of SVS ONLINE, charted the course of vascular surgery going...
Vascular surgeons identify health concerns that result from quarantine
Vascular surgeons from across the USA are reporting health impacts on some patients, particularly elderly ones, in quarantine. The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) queried...
New collection of articles available on impact of COVID-19 in treating...
The Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS) has introduced the COVID-19 Collection, a compilation of fast-tracked articles designed to proactively provide solutions to deliver the best care...
SVS provides resources on COVID-19 and its impact
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has collated a number of resources to provide information on COVID-19 and its impact, including advocacy, clinical practice...
“Desperate times require desperate measures,” SVS Town Hall on COVID-19 hears
The imperatives of preserving personal protective equipment (PPE) in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic were discussed in depth during a Society for Vascular...
SVS: AAA size predicts outcomes after endovascular repair
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) diameter has important implications for operative and long-term outcomes for patients, based on a study of 22,975 patient records in...
SVS VQI data being “fortified” to shed light on long-term paclitaxel...
Kim Hodgson (Springfield, USA), president of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) for 2019–20 spoke to Vascular News at the organisation’s Vascular Annual Meeting...
New Global Vascular Guidelines for CLTI patients now open for stakeholder...
The draft Global Vascular Guidelines on chronic limb threatening ischaemia (CLTI) have just been posted for open public comment until 3 December 2018. Michael...
The “epidemic” of surgeon burnout and a glimpse into the future...
Ronald L Dalman (Stanford, USA), vice president of the Society for Vascular Surgery, discusses how aligning an individual surgeon’s goals with those of the...
Societies urge vascular teams to actively provide smoking cessation assistance
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and the Society for Vascular Nursing (SVN) have issued a statement encouraging vascular surgery teams to actively assist...
New medical director named to SVS Patient Safety Organization
Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen has been named the new medical director of the Society for Vascular Surgery Patient Safety Organization (SVS PSO). He will replace Jack...
