Press Releases

January 4, 2017 • Press Release

Smoking Assistance Joint Statement - SVS-SVN

  SVS / SVN JOINT STATEMENT Vascular Surgery Teams Urged toActively Provide Smokers with Cessation Assistance

December 21, 2016 • Press Release

Societies for Vascular Surgery and Nursing Form New Alliance

CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 21, 2016 – The Society for Vascular Surgery and the Society for Vascular Nursing have signed an agreement in which the nursing association will be managed from the Chicago-based SVS office.

December 9, 2016 • Press Release

African Americans, Diabetes and Amputation Trends

AFRICAN AMERICANS WITH DIABETES FACE HIGHER RISK OF PREVENTABLE AMPUTATIONS CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 12, 2016 – African Americans are at higher risk for two diseases – diabetes and peripheral arterial disease (PAD) – that together threaten to cause them more preventable amputations than other populations.

December 7, 2016 • Press Release

Secret Tip For VAM17 Abstract Submitters

The Number One Tip for Submission Success Here’s the most important advice you will get from the program committee chair: Submit early. The deadline is Jan. 25, 2017, but many people wait until the very last day to start the electronic submission process. If submitting authors don’t have all profile and disclosure information for every co-author before they start, they could miss the deadline.

December 5, 2016 • Press Release

‘Paradigm shift’ for quality database will track medical management outcomes for the first time

CHICAGO, Illinois – A new Vascular Medicine Registry will be launched in early 2017 by the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and the Society for Vascular Medicine (SVM). The registry will be housed within the SVS Patient Safety Organization (SVS PSO), which was established to collect and analyze data to improve the quality of vascular care, and to do so in a neutral, de-identified environment. This will be the first data registry to study outcomes of medical management as compared to interventional and surgical treatments.