Vascular Quality Initiative Assessment of Compliance with Society for Vascular Surgery Practice Guidelines for the Endovascular Management of Claudication.

Introduction: In 2015, Society for Vascular Surgery guidelines on claudication management were released spanning optimal medical management, procedural, and post-procedure recommendations. Uptake of guidelines and changes to clinical practice over time remain unknown. This study hypothesized that guideline aligned practice increased after guideline release.

Locoregional Versus General Anesthesia for Carotid Artery Stenting in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Project.

Objectives: Carotid artery stenting (CAS) may be performed by transfemoral or transcervical (TCAR) approaches and with a variety of anesthetic techniques. No current literature clearly supports one anesthetic method over another. We therefore sought to evaluate the outcomes of CAS procedures based on anesthetic approach.

The effect of incremental increases in the number of packed red blood cell units transfused on perioperative outcomes in open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.

Introduction: Despite abundant evidence in the surgical and critical care literature demonstrating inferior outcomes in transfused patients, liberal use of blood transfusion, particularly after the initial unit, remains common in vascular surgery. We therefore sought to investigate the incremental risk of each additional unit of blood transfused intraoperatively for patients undergoing elective open repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) with regards to postoperative mortality and complications.

Methods: Patients in the Vascular Quality Initiative registry undergoing elective open infrarenal AAA repair from 2003 to 2020 were included.

Residency Application Selection Committee Discriminatory Ability in Identifying Artificial Intelligence-Generated Personal Statements.

Objective: Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have given rise to sophisticated algorithms capable of generating human-like text. The goal of this study was to evaluate the ability of human reviewers to reliably differentiate personal statements (PS) written by human authors from those generated by AI software.

Setting: Four personal statements from the archives of two surgical program directors were de-identified and used as the human samples.

Impact of COVID-19 on patients undergoing scheduled procedures for chronic venous disease.

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically altered the medical landscape. Various strategies have been employed to preserve hospital beds, personal protective equipment, and other resources to accommodate the surges of COVID-19 positive patients, hospital overcapacities, and staffing shortages. This has had a dramatic effect on vascular surgical practice.