Tag: Surgery

“Connecting surgical and non-surgical care” the key to reducing readmissions for...

Inpatient wound services are an essential component of care that can improve the likelihood of patients returning as outpatients, thereby reducing readmissions, Christi Cavaliere...
Ronald Dalman

Wearables could transform monitoring and outcome assessment for vascular interventions

 Health technology solutions—such as mobile apps and wearables—can play a huge role in activity tracking and assessing the outcomes of peripheral vascular interventions, says...

Open vs. endovascular aneurysm repair in the 60-year-old man against the...

 “The best treatment for a 60-year-old man with an infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm that is above the threshold for intervention is arguably surgery based...

Tackling the uncommon, but devastating, complication of infection after EVAR

 Rachel Bell (Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK) describes a variety of specialist surgical options to treat infection after endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR),...

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...

A patient’s health is “the most important” determinant of outcome after...

 Andrew Klein (a consultant anaesthetist from Royal Papworth hospital in Cambridge, UK) tells Vascular News that research in cardiac surgery has shown that while the surgeon...
Mastracci told Interventional News about how clinicians’ practices are being tested

Individual evaluation of each patient, and each aorta, is key to...

 “The instructions for use (IFU) are not a clinical guideline, so trainees should really think about what the main considerations are when they are...