Tag: Vascular Quality Initiative
“Significant” increase in atherectomy use in the USA largely driven by...
In the USA, atherectomy use in peripheral vascular interventions (PVIs) “more than doubled” from 2010 to 2019, with office-based procedures a “major driver” of...
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...
Five-year survival following EVAR for ruptured AAA “improving,” study concludes
“The relative survival benefit of EVAR over open repair has increased over time,” conclude Rens RB Varkevisser (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical...
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 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...
