In a significant victory for PAD patients and their surgeons, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is offering national Medicare coverage for supervised exercise therapy (SET) beyond the hospital setting to include a physician’s office or a hospital outpatient setting.
A recent study finds that women undergoing TEVAR experience worse outcomes and that gender should be considered in an analysis of risk versus benefit.
VESAP4 set to debut soon, including a companion app that will let users access the program off-line and then sync with the desktop version.
VAM'17 attracted the most attendees ever - 1,807 - and set another record for international attendance with 362 registrations.
Dr. Ronald Dalman discusses this year's annual meeting and takes a brief look ahead to VAM'18.
The SVS Foundation expands its mission and delineates its vision to support new programs and goals.
For the public, navigating the complex world of vascular care must seem like being adrift on the high seas, with brigands and pirates galore. Vascular surgeons, cardiac surgeons, interventional radiologists, and interventional cardiologists all raise their friendly flags to lure patients.
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New evidence suggests that minimally invasive methods to ablate superficial venous reflux in patients with end-stage venous insufficiency are as effective as traditional open venous stripping.
The Society for Vascular Surgery appreciates the time, commitment and energy of hundreds of volunteers who staff the Society’s committees and councils.
The Independent Payment Advisory Board, created by the 2010 Affordable Care Act to control Medicare spending, threatens the ability of Congress to ensure access to needed health care, say SVS advocacy staff and members.
Two disability insurance plans offered to SVS members The famous Lloyd’s of London has insured hands (the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards), legs (Betty Grable and others), chest hair (Welsh crooner Tom Jones), nose (Jimmy Durante), tongues (Gene Simmons of Kiss and others), voice (Bruce Springstee
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Students and surgeons will soon have a valuable new learning tool, with the anticipated summer release of VESAP4. The new edition of VESAP will come just in time for the September board qualifying, certification and recertification exams.
This month’s leadership spotlight is on Joseph L. Mills, MD, FACS, Professor and Chief of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. Dr. Mills has been President of the Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society (now VESS), Western Vascular Society, and the Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery (APDVS). He has a strong interest in education and is a past-chair of the Vascular Surgery Board (VSB) of the American Board of Surgery (ABS), and a member of the Surgery Residency Review Committee (RRC) of the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education. We discussed his approach to leadership from the viewpoint of the Kouzes/Posner trait of ‘Encouraging the Heart.’
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Respond to Survey by June 26
Vascular health is everything. Are vascular surgeons leaders? Partners? Or both?
To position the Society for Vascular Surgery – and its members – for the future, the SVS is launching a multi-pronged branding initiative.
Clearly, neither Kathleen Ozsvath, MD, nor Sherene Shalhub, MD, listened when each was told, more than a decade apart, that “women can’t be surgeons.” Now they’re holding a breakfast session that encourages women to be not only surgeons, but leaders as well.
Giving back, every day: 3 surgeons win first-ever SVS Excellence in Community Service awards
Three outstanding surgeons have been selected to receive the SVS’ first-ever Excellence in Community Service Awards.
Clinical Practice Guidelines and Reporting Standards are important tools as the SVS strives to improve quality of care and reduce variation. They also serve as an important benefit for SVS members.
With fresh statistics and compelling anecdotes, the SVS Wellness Task Force will continue its work to facilitate SVS efforts to improve vascular surgeon well-being, by helping mitigate the personal, economic and social impact of vascular surgeon burnout.
The SVS “Vascular Spectacular” gala, after months of planning, is nearly here. And everyone, no matter where they are in the world on Friday, June 14, may participate in the Online Raffle or Silent Auction, right until it closes. (One caveat: You’ll need to have an Internet connection.)
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ROSEMONT, Illinois, June 2019 – Four years ago, vascular experts from around the world had a quixotic quest: get all surgeons and providers to agree on the best ways to treat a common and debilitating illness: chronic limb-threatening ischemia.
Science, snark, and sartorial folly in the debate over operative attire
BY MALACHI G. SHEAHAN III, MD MEDICAL EDITOR, VASCULAR SPECIALIST
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With an increasing number of procedures transitioning to office and outpatient settings, the Society for Vascular Surgery has created the new member Section on Outpatient and Office Vascular Care (SOOVC), specifically geared to clinicians who work in these environments.
After four years of work and research, vascular experts from around the world have released a new, far-reaching global guideline on managing chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), a problem of increasing prevalence and higher health care costs world-wide.
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Respond to Survey by June 26
Vascular health is everything. Are vascular surgeons leaders? Partners? Or both?
To position the Society for Vascular Surgery – and its members – for the future, the SVS is launching a multi-pronged branding initiative.
Clearly, neither Kathleen Ozsvath, MD, nor Sherene Shalhub, MD, listened when each was told, more than a decade apart, that “women can’t be surgeons.” Now they’re holding a breakfast session that encourages women to be not only surgeons, but leaders as well.
Giving back, every day: 3 surgeons win first-ever SVS Excellence in Community Service awards
Three outstanding surgeons have been selected to receive the SVS’ first-ever Excellence in Community Service Awards.
Clinical Practice Guidelines and Reporting Standards are important tools as the SVS strives to improve quality of care and reduce variation. They also serve as an important benefit for SVS members.
With fresh statistics and compelling anecdotes, the SVS Wellness Task Force will continue its work to facilitate SVS efforts to improve vascular surgeon well-being, by helping mitigate the personal, economic and social impact of vascular surgeon burnout.
The SVS “Vascular Spectacular” gala, after months of planning, is nearly here. And everyone, no matter where they are in the world on Friday, June 14, may participate in the Online Raffle or Silent Auction, right until it closes. (One caveat: You’ll need to have an Internet connection.)
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ROSEMONT, Illinois, June 2019 – Four years ago, vascular experts from around the world had a quixotic quest: get all surgeons and providers to agree on the best ways to treat a common and debilitating illness: chronic limb-threatening ischemia.
Science, snark, and sartorial folly in the debate over operative attire
BY MALACHI G. SHEAHAN III, MD MEDICAL EDITOR, VASCULAR SPECIALIST
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With an increasing number of procedures transitioning to office and outpatient settings, the Society for Vascular Surgery has created the new member Section on Outpatient and Office Vascular Care (SOOVC), specifically geared to clinicians who work in these environments.
After four years of work and research, vascular experts from around the world have released a new, far-reaching global guideline on managing chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), a problem of increasing prevalence and higher health care costs world-wide.
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