Article: Shovel L and Morkane C. Review Prehabilitation for Vascular Surgery Patients: Challenges and Opportunities. Canadian Journal of Cardiology 38 (2022) 645e653 What is already known: In ERAS, prehabilitation is a common practice to improve the patient’s functional capacity before major surgery, especially in frailty and physical inactivity people. Prehabilitation is important in case of […]

Scoping review of frailty in vascular surgery. Drudi LM, Ades M, Landry T, Gill HL, Grenon SM, Steinmetz OK, Afilalo J. Journal of Vascular Surgery 2019 Jun;69(6): 1989-1998 What is already known: Preoperative risk stratification for surgical procedures is key to informed decision-making for patients undergoing interventions for vascular diagnoses. However, traditional risk prediction models […]

Kate Dell is a board-certified Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in Vascular Surgery with Ascension Medical Group Indianapolis in Lafayette, Indiana. As a Nurse Practitioner, she manages Vascular disease patients throughout the perioperative phases of care within the inpatient and outpatient settings. She is involved with clinical research and her doctorate research focus was on improving […]

Dr. Vavra is an assistant professor of vascular surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Service line Chief for Vascular Surgery at the Jesse Brown Veterans Administration Hospital in Chicago, IL. Dr. Vavra completed her training at Northwestern University in Chicago and she is board certified in both general and vascular surgery. As […]

Alberto Settembrini is vascular surgeon at Fondazione Policlinico in Milan, Italy and adjunct professor of vascular surgery at University of Milan. He achieved board in vascular surgery in Italy in 2013 and he is Fellow of European Board of Vascular Surgery since 2021. He is member of ESVS, SVS, SICVE, but also of vascular medicine […]

Dr. McGinigle is an Associate Professor of Surgery and the Director of the Enhanced Recovery Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a practicing vascular surgeon, she performs open, endovascular, and hybrid techniques for the breadth of vascular conditions, but has a special clinical and research interest in chronic limb threatening […]