Vascular Annual Meeting SPECIAL EDITION
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BY MARK S. LESNEY MDEDGE NEWS F ROM THE VA SCUL A R ANNU AL ME E TIN G
BOSTON – National efforts have intensified to reduce opioid prescriptions because of the opioid crisis. However, little is known about the relationship between peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and high-risk opioid use, according to Nathan K. Itoga, MD, of Stanford (Calif.) University. “As a vascular surgery resident I wanted to know how I could do my part in reducing opioid prescriptions. However, I didn’t know if vascular patients were at risk for high opioid use. The impetus for this study was the lack of studies regarding opioid use in patients with vascular disease,” said Dr. Itoga. See Opioid · page 2
Presidential address: “Changing Me to We in Vascular Care” Dr. R. Clement Darling III, SVS
BY MARK S. LESNEY MDEDGE NEWS F R OM T H E VAS C U L AR AN N U AL MEET I N G
BOSTON – When R. Clement Darling III, MD, took to the podium at the Vascular Annual Meeting to present his presidential address, he highlighted the importance of teamwork and collaboration in training, in maintaining personal well-being, and most importantly, in providing patient care. His talk, titled, “Looking Forward Through the Past:
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Changing Me to We in the Evolution of Team-Based Vascular Care,” addressed these issues through a very personal lens. To make his point, Dr. Darling outlined four key take-home concepts that he had found useful “over five decades of working in an operating room as a technologist, a student, and a surgeon,” and as chief of the division of vascular surgery at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center See Presidential address · page 4
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