Prepared by the SVS Young Surgeons Advisory Committee

This is the first in a series of practice memos developed to assist vascular surgeons to effectively market their practices.

In order to effectively market a medical practice, define the competitive edge. This is especially critical for new practices, practices moving to a new location, or practices encountering new competition in an established practice. The first step is to define and analyze the competition.

Prepared by Stephen P. Murray, MD, FACS^a and Bhagwan Satiani, MD, MBA^b on behalf of the SVS Community Practice Committee

Prepared by Timothy Wu, MD and Rabih A. Chaer, MD on behalf of the SVS Young Surgeons Committee and Nichol L. Salvo, DPM on behalf of the APMA Young Physicians’ Leadership Panel 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Media Contact
Beth Richman
brichman1@gmail.com
312-806-8999

Findings Reinforce Vascular Surgeons’ Value for Trauma Centers

Continuing resolution to fund the government disregards need to protect patient access to care. 

WASHINGTON, December 2, 2021 – Congress is on the brink of allowing massive Medicare cuts to go into effect at the start of the new year based on the language of the continuing resolution released today, according to the Surgical Care Coalition. Congress’s failure to address these cuts harms our nation’s seniors and ignores the sacrifices physicians and health care providers have made during the pandemic.  
 

The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) urges Congress to stop the harmful Medicare cuts that will take effect in less than two months and will limit patient access to needed care; Majority of the U.S. House supports stopping the cuts.

Organizations representing more than one million physician and non-physician health care providers unite to protect care for the millions of seniors who rely on the Medicare program.

A large single-center retrospective study reveals the risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) following pharmacomechanical thrombolysis (PMT) for lower extremity deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a high as 22%.

The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has released updated clinical practice guidelines accompanied by an implementation document on the management of patients with extracranial carotid artery disease.  Since stroke prevention related to carotid artery disease is of major interest to vascular surgeons, the documents aim to use the existing clinical evidence to ensure patients with atherosclerotic occlusive disease in the carotid arteries receive appropriate treatment and care.

The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has released a new clinical practice guideline to ensure that patients with aneurysms of the popliteal arteries (located behind the knee) receive appropriate treatment and care. Aneurysms of the popliteal artery are the most common aneurysms outside of the brain and abdominal aorta.