Physician (Attending Surgeon) Vascular Surgery

The role of the staff vascular surgeon is to provide comprehensive care to patients with disorders of the Vascular System. This includes conditions of the abdominal aorta, lower and upper extremity vasculature, and extracranial cerebral circulation. The care to be provided includes consultations, nonoperative management, open surgical operations, and endovascular procedures.

Duties include but are not limited to the following: Consultations: Reviewing and providing consultations promptly. Seeing new outpatients with nonemergent problems within 30 days. Seeing inpatient consultations and patients with urgent conditions promptly. Patient transfer requests: Evaluate and response promptly by direct communication with referring providers and transfer coordinators at CGVAMC. Evaluate outpatients in: The Vascular Surgery clinic and Vascular surgery post operative clinic. Work with wound therapy nurses in inpatient and outpatient settings. Read and interpret studies generated in the Noninvasive Laboratory promptly. Prepare patient for operative management. Follow the standard of care and established policies including the marking of operative sites, performing preoperative briefings and Time-Out assessments prior to the commencement of any operation. Keep patients' families or designated surrogates well informed of the patients condition and progress. This is to include a postoperative conversation informing them of the findings, conduct of the operation, expected results and areas of concern. Care for inpatients on the Vascular Surgery Service in the operating room, intensive care unit and ward. Arrange dispositions for follow up appointments for patients prior to discharge. Attend and present at morbidity and mortality conferences. Provide summaries of all deaths using the required reporting format. Medical Record Duties: Outpatient consultation reports and progress notes. Inpatient progress notes- daily notes on patients in the intensive care unit. History and Physical examinations. Operative Reports View alerts Keep up with new developments in the vascular literature, and maintain the required CME activities. Participate in performance improvement projects. Participate in resident education and supervision in the: Outpatient clinics. Emergency Department. Inpatient settings. Operating room. Participate in Surgical Resident Preparation and Evaluation: At the beginning of the rotation, this includes a review of duties and expectations. Review of performance at mid-rotations and provide feedback. Exit interview and final evaluation at the end of the rotation. Work Schedule: Intermittent Weekends, Days, Nights & Holidays (According to the needs of the facility)

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