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February 27, 2018 • Article

VQI: New Vascular Ultrasound Registry Announced

The Society for Vascular Ultrasound, the Society for Vascular Surgery and Medstreaming-M2S have developed the Vascular Quality Initiative Vascular Ultrasound Registry. It expands the SVS VQI to combine noninvasive (vascular ultrasound) testing data with vascular treatment and outcomes data, making it possible to analyze the relationships between diagnosis and patient care. The registry will be piloted with eight to 12 hospitals collecting and analyzing data on carotid artery disease and will include actual ultrasound images.

February 27, 2018 • Article

Your SVS: First 2018 SVS Membership Application is March 1

To improve access, efficiency and service to existing and future SVS members, the Society is now reviewing and approving membership applications quarterly, instead of yearly. The first deadline for 2018 is March 1. Applicants should learn by mid to late April if they are accepted for membership, in time to attend the Vascular Annual Meeting at the discounted member rate. Please note that registration fees are assigned based on the current membership status at registration. An adjustment can be made post-approval.

February 27, 2018 • Article

Articles of Interest from March JVS/JVS-VL

JVS: High-dose angiotensin inhibitors benefit long-term mortality in patients with critical limb ischemia, according to a recent study from Harvard University, published in the March Journal of Vascular Surgery. It is free to review as an open-source document for SVS members and non-members from Feb. 22 through April 30 at vsweb.org/JVS-RAS.

February 27, 2018 • Article

Funding a Comfortable Retirement

Most people want to live in retirement as they did during their working days. They have plans – travel, help fund grandchildren’s college educations, perhaps escape winter each year. Look no further than the Kai-Zen strategy of retirement funding, an exclusive product for SVS members. This unique product helps members speed investment growth in their life insurance policies, using leverage that provides up to 60 percent more death benefit protection and 60 percent more supplemental retirement income.

February 14, 2018 • Article

SVS, AVF Strengthen Collaboration Under New Agreement

The leading organizations dedicated to diagnosis, treatment and research of arterial and venous disease have strengthened their partnership in pursuit of quality across the spectrum of vascular disease.