Vascular Surgery

The Vascular Surgery Residency Program is one year of clinical specialization following satisfactory completion of a General Surgery residency. The number of vascular operations performed and interventional proceedures annually provides extensive operating room experience.

All diagnostic angiography and interventional proceedures are performed by the vascular surgery service. Full access to schedule cases in angiography is complemented by access to the cardiac cath lab, as well as full angio capability in the OR.

Residents also gain ample experience in preoperative and postoperative management of patients. In the NonInvasive Vascular Laboratory, residents learn to interpret results and correlate them with clinical findings and angiograms for accuracy. Additional instruction is gained during weekly Vascular Surgery Conferences. The Program at Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center is supervised by full time faculty.

Vascular Surgery procedures performed by each general surgery resident number more than 100 major operations. The vascular surgery fellow spends six months covering the vascular surgery patients at Saint Louis University Hospital and six months participating in the care of the vascular surgery patients at St. John's Mercy Medical Center. When the vascular surgery fellow is at St. John's, the vascular operations at Saint Louis University are performed by the PGY IV general surgery resident, and when the fellow rotates at Saint Louis University Hospital the vascular operations at St. John's are performed by the general surgery resident. Vascular surgery operations at the Veterans Administration Medical Center are performed by the general surgery residents. Non invasive vascular laboratories are integrated into the teaching program.

Clinical and laboratory research are essential components of the vascular training program. The patient data bank provides for complete, continuous outcome evaluations.

 

  Faculty

Donald Jacobs, M.D.

Gary Peterson, M.D.

Catherine M. Wittgen, M.D.

Brian Peterson, M.D.

  Affiliated Hospitals
St. John's Mercy Medical Center, VAH

 

  Conferences

Case presentation, 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month

VASCULAR SURGERY PROCEDURES FOR RESIDENTS GRADUATING 2001
PROCEDURE	PRIMARY PROCECURE			SECONDARY PROCEDURE
	SF	TA	FA
Aneurysm Repair	33	1	3
Cebrovascular	43			2
Periph Obstructive	61			18
Abdominal Obstructive	7			3
Upper Extremity	3
Extra-Anatomic	4
Venous	21
Endovascular Therapeutic	83	1	1	25
Endovascular Diagnostic	50			60
Miscellaneous	11		1
Vascular Access	18			1
Amputations	23	4		1
Trauma	9	3
TOTAL	366	9	5	110

  Vascular Residents Medical School Alma Maters •

• Chicago Medical College
• Northwestern
• Medical College of Georgia
• University of Tennessee
• University of Colorado

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