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[drmwvr]

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Not sure how bad your EVARs/vascular surgeons are, but I've never had perfusion involved with one.

ughhhh....sorry...I was phasing between TAVR and EVAR in my mind assuming everyone here was clairvoyant...apologies...

 

[jwk]

PP or not, I hope you are not defending the lack of large bore IVs or A-lines in a major vascular case. I don't care how endovascular the procedure is; if the site is not compressible, one should prepare for the worst.

The in-hospital mortality for unruptured EVARs is around 1%, so I get the part about not putting in a 11F central line in every pacient. But A-lines and large bore IVs? That's just laziness.

I'm just telling you how a large number of ours are done. I'm not the one who decides. We also do many of our robotic thoracoscopic cases without an a-line as well. Heresy to many I'm sure.