New technique for rapid low profile catheter exchange and guidewire cannulation. The modified syringe plunger device GTI (Guidewire Threading Instrument). Use #ChallengeGTI hashtag for sharing your pics and videos.
Two major methodological problems. 1) The endoAVF data set contained a high percentage of patients that never actually went on HD. 2) two different cohorts (from different countries!) with likely very different venous anatomy. Not a dig on the tech but the paper is meaningless.
@JACCJournals How many groin complications do you have to prevent to make up for a stroke? Messing with the innominate and arch seems like a bad tradeoff when femoral access is so available.
@SKDhillonMD @JDB2049 Some cases are an easy call. But for many, especially younger patients, you never know who will do well. What if there's a 1 in 20 chance of success (95% failure)? I think erring on the side of intervention often makes sense.
Outcomes will have to be carefully watched--there is a good alternative! Axillary artery cutdown is quick, low morbidity, and heals very well. https://t.co/aoxZZGBues
Thanks for the donation @TimCopeland. Here's your infographic about vascular surgery. I knew that 6 week rotation in vascular as a med student would come in handy.
Amazed this myth persists... Give them antibiotics, reasonable pain meds, follow up. You don't have to agree but don't be the toddler about it. https://t.co/kvnfEsybX0
Myth: insurance denies payment for patients who leave against medical advice.
"We found no evidence that insurance denied payment for patients leaving AMA." https://t.co/b9vogjtKjk
#KeyArticle from the May 2018 issue of @JVascSurg (#openaccess free to dowlonad until June 30, 2018).
Grip strength measurement for frailty assessment in patients with vascular disease and associations with comorbidity, cardiac risk, and sarcopenia https://t.co/C1JV162W5u
@drdanmd Shots fired-- general surgeons had better outcomes treating little adults: Factors Associated With Outcomes and Costs After Pediatric Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy https://t.co/lexle5InPv