Trainee participation in open aortic procedures may be a “very good thing” for both patient and training

A Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) award-winning paper laid out how trainee participation in aortic cases is ultimately safe and essential for training the next generation of vascular surgeons amid declining open case volumes nationally. In the case of open repairs, their involvement may even be protective, authors Adam Beck, chair of vascular surgery, and Joseph Chitwood, an integrated vascular surgery resident (both The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA) tell Vascular News.