The UK-COMPASS data is out…
The UK-COMPASS data is out… https://www.ejves.com/article/S1078-5884(24)00197-7/fulltext This is really important data for all Vascular Surgeons across the world. Aneurysms are being treated in many different ways in the UK and with launch of NCIP ( https://gettingitrightfirsttime.co.uk/associated_projects/ncip/ ) to complement the NVR ( https://www.vsqip.org.uk ) benchmarking is improving nicely. What this paper adds is a quite stark and often scary insight into how things are being managed. Open surgical repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms is a high stakes, difficult procedure, but once it's done it's done. Standard endovascular repair is a much lower stress procedure, but once it's done it's life long surveillance and significant risk of repeat procedures. Without a doubt endovascular repair of infrarenal aneurysms has offered repair to many more people than would have been suitable previously. However, we now know that pushing the boundaries of the stent g
