VERN

The UK-wide trainee led vascular and endovascular research network. Get involved and help make a change.

[VERN @VascResearchNet]

The REPAIR Survey is OPEN now! 🚨🚨🚨

Is cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) used to aid clinical decision making when planning elective AAA repair? Let's find out! @vasgbi

Collaborative authorship available for all participants!

https://t.co/RFE0fTGURs

[VERN @VascResearchNet]

🩸 Antiplatelets & anticoagulants in acute limb ischaemia: what’s your approach?

Consultant vascular surgeons & interventional radiologists worldwide: help CALM shape Delphi consensus where evidence is lacking.

👇 Share your practice:
https://t.co/vmE8l8w0lA

[VERN @VascResearchNet]

📣 REPAIR is ONLY open until Friday 6 November!

UK vascular & anaesthetic teams: how does CPET influence elective AAA repair at your unit?

Share your practice in the VERN/VASGBI survey.

📝 Collaborative authorship available
👇 Respond & share:
https://t.co/RFE0fTGURs

[VERN @VascResearchNet]

🩸 Consultant vascular surgeons & interventional radiologists worldwide: how do you prescribe antiplatelets & anticoagulants in acute limb ischaemia?

Help CALM identify variation & inform consensus 👇
https://t.co/vmE8l8wyb8

🔄 Please share!

#VERN #VascularSurgery

[VERN @VascResearchNet]

🎓 “It’s made me seriously consider vascular surgery as a future career.”

Read our outgoing student Vihini's VERN testimonial below 👇

🙌 We also welcome our new student observers, Anood Imran & Amy Lindsay, joining us from Oct–Jan!

#VERN #VascularSurgery

[VERN @VascResearchNet]

🎬 The annual Venous Forum Pump Priming Video Abstract Competition is open!

🏆 Win a £5,000 research award
📅 Entries close 1 November
📩 Send submissions to [email protected]

Watch for details 👇
https://t.co/5NZASvscZO

#VSGBI #VenousResearch

[VERN @VascResearchNet]

CPET suggests increased risk before elective AAA repair. What changes? 🤔

🔹 Offer of intervention?
🔹 Open vs EVAR?
🔹 Perioperative planning?

REPAIR is mapping real-world practice.

Vascular + anaesthetic teams: complete it together 👇
https://t.co/RFE0fTGURs

#REPAIR #CPET

[VERN @VascResearchNet]

🫀 A CPET result is back. What happens next?

Does it change your elective AAA repair decision or perioperative plan?

UK vascular & anaesthetic teams: share your unit’s practice in the VERN/VASGBI REPAIR survey.

📝 Collaborative authorship available

https://t.co/RFE0fTGn1U

[VERN @VascResearchNet]

🏆 Last year’s VERN Dragons’ Den winner, CALM, is live!

📢 Consultant vascular surgeons & interventional radiologists worldwide: help shape consensus on antiplatelet & anticoagulant use in acute limb ischaemia!

👇 Share your practice:
https://t.co/vmE8l8wyb8

[VERN @VascResearchNet]

🔎 VERN Over the Years: GIVE

37 centres. 1,039 patients. 1,337 groin incisions.

What did GIVE teach us about groin wound infection - and what came next?

Explore the key findings 👇

#GIVE #VascularSurgery #VERNOverTheYears

[VERN @VascResearchNet]

🚨 SIMBA-T: 8 DAYS TO GO!

Two-thirds of centres have submitted 1-year follow-up data 👏

If your centre is still outstanding, please upload all eligible TMA follow-ups before REDCap closes on 30 September.

Every centre strengthens the dataset 💪

🔗 https://t.co/aWACsEPjA2

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Does CPET change your management of elective AAA patients? 🤔

Whether it shapes intervention, repair choice or perioperative planning, tell us how it is used in your unit!

Vascular + anaesthetic teams encouraged to respond together 👇

🔗 https://t.co/UdBRguwPJY

#REPAIR #CPET

[VERN @VascResearchNet]

Do you have an idea for a Venous Research project? Would you like the chance to win £5K in funding & SIG support for your project?

If so, enter the venous pump priming competition! Submission deadline:01/10/2026

More information can be found here: https://t.co/00PpLA7HtN

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Next up in our #VERNOverTheYears

One clinical question → 37 centres → multiple research outputs.

From an international prospective study to a systematic review and risk-prediction models, GIVE shows how VERN turns collaborative ideas into evidence.

🔬 Follow the story below

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🩺 How do you manage lipids in patients with PAD?

📊 Vascular surgeons & trainees: help us understand current approaches to dyslipidaemia and lipid-lowering therapy!

⏱️ 14 questions
⏳ 5 minutes

Have your say 👇
https://t.co/L8uqTuhXa1

#VascularSurgery #LipidManagement

[VERN @VascResearchNet]

📢 UK medical students: apply for VERN’s 3-month Student Observership!

Learn how a national trainee-led vascular research network develops, delivers and publishes multicentre projects!

Send a 300-word manifesto to:
📧 [email protected]

📅 Deadline: 30 Sept

[VERN @VascResearchNet]

🚨 REPAIR needs your centre!

How does your team use CPET when making decisions about elective AAA repair?

Complete the survey with your vascular or anaesthetic colleagues.

✅ Collaborative authorship available

🔗 https://t.co/UdBRguxnzw

#CPET #AAA

[VERN @VascResearchNet]

🚨 DEADLINE TODAY 🚨

Last chance to enter the VERN Dragon’s Den 🐉

Your proposal only needs to be 300 words or fewer - and could become VERN’s next collaborative vascular research project!

Submit now 👇
https://t.co/hFKw3Dfsde

The Den is closing! 🔥

[VERN @VascResearchNet]

🚨 TOMORROW IS THE DEADLINE!

There is still time to enter the VERN Dragon’s Den 🐉

📝 Submit ≤300 words
🎤 Pitch at #VSASM2026
🤝 Develop your project with VERN
📅 Deadline: 4 September

🔗 https://t.co/hFKw3Dfsde

Get your idea into the Den! 🔥

[VERN @VascResearchNet]

🚨 TOMORROW IS THE DEADLINE!

There is still time to enter the VERN Dragon’s Den 🐉

📝 Submit ≤300 words
🎤 Pitch at #VSASM2026
🤝 Develop your project with VERN
📅 Deadline: 4 September

🔗 https://t.co/hFKw3Dfsde

Get your idea into the Den! 🔥

[VERN @VascResearchNet]

⏳ 48 HOURS LEFT!

Could your idea become VERN’s next collaborative research project?

🐉 Submit ≤300 words
🎤 Pitch at #VSASM2026
🤝 Gain support from the VERN network
📅 Deadline: 4 September

🔗 https://t.co/hFKw3Dfsde

Send it in! 🔥