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Risking life and limb: no hiding from failure
Introduction Acute limb ischaemia (ALI) is one of the few vascular emergencies where time is quite literally tissue. Delays to treatment risk permanent limb impairment or amputation and death. With that in mind, the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) report Risking Life and Limb (2025)1 makes uncomfortable reading. Despite firm principles…
Calculating and reducing the environmental impact of hybrid endovascular surgery
Introduction Background Climate change refers to long-term shifts in global temperatures and weather patterns, driven predominantly over the past two centuries by human activity, particularly the combustion of fossil fuels. The release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) traps heat within the atmosphere, raising global temperatures,1 which is known as…
