Abstract
Vascular surgeons traditionally completed a general surgery residency prior to specialty fellowship training. This gave vascular surgeons exposure to a wide variety of general surgery cases to include colon and rectal surgery. In the past 5 years, alternative training pathways or “Integrated” vascular 5-year residencies have diluted the experience of vascular trainees with a focus on only vascular surgery. Likewise, general surgery residencies have seen a decline in the vascular case volumes over the past decade. Thus, it has become increasingly important for the various surgical subspecialties to become codependent upon one another for the management of complex patients. In reality, the day will soon come when a vascular surgeon will no longer perform colectomy on a patient with ischemic colitis after elective aortic aneurysm repair. Similarly, the general and colorectal surgeon will have little to no experience with vascular repairs. The purpose of this chapter is to answer the question of what to do “When Vascular Surgery Calls.”
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Starnes, B.W. (2014). When Vascular Surgery Calls. In: Steele, S.R., Maykel, J.A., Champagne, B.J., Orangio, G.R. (eds) Complexities in Colorectal Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9022-7_35
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