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Physician Qualifications in the Clinical Diagnostic Vascular Laboratory

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The Diagnostic Vascular Laboratory is an essential component of modern vascular practice. Patients referred for evaluation by a vascular specialist will invariably require some form of objective assessment. Testing in the Diagnostic Vascular Laboratory is typically the first stage of this evaluation, to confirm or rule out vascular disease. In order to achieve a high degree of accuracy and consistency, the vascular lab personnel, including technologists, supervisors, and interpreting physicians, have to be highly qualified. This chapter describes the necessary qualifications for physicians providing interpretation in accredited vascular laboratories.

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  1. Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

    M. Ashraf Mansour

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  1. Department of Surgery, West Virginia University, Charleston, WV, USA

    Ali F. AbuRahma

  2. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

    Bruce A. Perler

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  1. Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery & Endovascular Therapy, The John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Bruce A. Perler M.D., M.B.A.

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Mansour, M.A. (2021). Physician Qualifications in the Clinical Diagnostic Vascular Laboratory. In: AbuRahma, A.F., Perler, B.A. (eds) Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49616-6_2-1

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