Evidence-based Therapy in Vascular Surgery

This book is an introduction to quality initiative for vascular surgery and medicine. Originally published in German, the book is written by leading experts who utilise their professional expertise and insight to help raise the level of patient safety, quality of care, and training of junior vascular physicians.

This books aims to bring together the best available current treatment and information, including recent guidelines, meta-analyses, and randomised trials to help put evidence-based therapeutic recommendations into practice.

Innovative therapeutic treatment options are not currently incorporated within standard procedure, and this book will help physicians include these methods and create more individualised treatment.

Dr. Eike Sebastian Debus, M.D. FEBS, FEBVS, Professor of Surgery

Eike Sebastian Debus is Professor and Chair of the Department of Vascular Medicine, University of Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. Sebastian Debus is the current Secretary General of the European Society for Vascular Surgery. He was President of the German Vascular Society 2013/2014. He chairs the Northern German Society of Surgery and is Secretary of the Northern German Society for Vascular Medicine. He was member of the presidium of the German Society of Surgery 2013/2014. He served as chief editor of the `Journal of Wound healing’ (2000-2005), Gefasschirurgie, Springer (2004-2013), founding Editor of GefasmedizinScan (Thieme) since 2014 and is member of the editorial board of varios international journals. His main research interests are vascular epidemiology and vascular care, aortic pathologies and peripheral occlusive disease. He was cofounder of the german vascular registry program and is engaged in va

rious projects of the European Society for Vascular Surgery, i.e. the VascuNet initiative, board of directors of the European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery and member of the esvs guidelines committee.

Dr. Reinhart Thomas Grundmann, M.D., Professor of Surgery

Reinhart T. Grundmann works currently as a medical expert in an independent position. He is at present consultant and coordinator of the DIGG, an institution of the German Society of Vascular Surgery. He is Professor of Surgery at the University of Cologne and has the qualification of general surgery and vascular surgery. He is the former medical director of the B. Braun Company, one of the world’s leading providers of healthcare solutions. In after years, he worked as the medical director of the Kreiskliniken Altotting-Burghausen, Germany. He was managing editor of the Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie from 1992 to 2008 and is currently member of the editorial board of the World Journal of Gastroi

ntestinal Surgery. From 2001 to 2005 he edited annually the Jahrbuch fur Chirurgie, a book that provides information on the latest developments in surgery. Reinhart T. Grundmann has published more than 300 scientific publications, including books and book chapters. His recent research interests lie in the field of efficacy and effectiveness in surgery.