Articles

May 1, 2020 • Article

SVS Town Halls seek to help steer members out of choppy COVID-19 waters

BY BRYAN KAY The vascular world has gone through a dramatic change. The normal to which vascular surgeons had become accustomed has vanished almost overnight. As the realities of the approaching COVID-19 pandemic have begun to crystalize, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) started to set the stage for what was about to re-arrange the specialty for some time to come.

May 1, 2020 • Article

SVS remains nimble in face of pandemic, pivots to focus on priorities and needs of membership

BY BETH BALES The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) started 2020 with plans intensifying for the Vascular Research Initiatives Conference (VRIC) in May, the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in June, the launch of the branding initiative and a host of other SVS priorities. Within eight weeks, COVID-19 had prompted a rapid, decisive pivot to SVS members’ changing and urgent needs. Members faced an upended practice landscape, with elective surgeries banned and financial concerns growing.

May 1, 2020 • Article

‘Desperate times require desperate measures,’ maiden SVS Town Hall hears

BY BRYAN KAY The contentious issue of the limited availability of personal protective equipment (PPE), and what this means for performing procedures, was given a robust airing during the first Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Town Hall, which focused on the early experiences of COVID-19.

April 17, 2020 • Article

COVID-19: The Point of View of an Italian Student

BY SIMONA SICA, SVS SOCIAL MEDIA AMBASSADOR

April 1, 2020 • Article

What has SVS PAC ever done for you?

BY PETER CONNOLLY, MD, AND MARK MATTOS, MD Imagine that you are telling your lay friends about what you do for a living. You have to explain the difference between arteries and veins. And then you find that you need to clarify that you do not, in fact, operate on the heart. It doesn’t get too much farther down the road than this, when, under usual circumstances, you are met with a combination of awe and indifference. Awe because— well—people like gory stories, and indifference because, in the end, they can’t ever really relate to it.