behind the knife the surgery podcast where we take a behind the scenes intimate look at surgery

from leaders in the field welcome back to the vaster portion of behind the knife my name is

Frank Davis and I'm a chief integrated vaster surgery resident here at the University of Michigan

I'm here Craig Brown of PGY6 in general surgery at the University of Michigan and I'm here with

Nick I'm Nick Osborne associate professor of vascular surgery at the University of Michigan and

we are your vascular surgery team here to talk about PAD and acronym soup you know PAD is a complex

topic and and we could take a million hours to talk about it but we're going to try and specifically

this time kind of distill down some of the kind of nuts and bolts of some of the different

guidelines that are out there there's a million acronyms that you're going to see with peripheral

artery disease and so we're going to try and wrap your heads around a couple of those so that it

makes a little bit more approachable and not as scary when you start hearing us talking about

things like task and Wi-Fi and glass and so we're going to get started so we'll make sure as we kind

of go through these things if you want to reference some of that we give you a link to the guidelines

in the show notes and there's good reading to get through especially if you're going to be going

on to either a vascular rotation or getting ready to take an exam all right so let's go ahead and

dive right in Nick mentioned a bunch of guidelines I think the roadmap for today is going to be

based on this really awesome document called the global vascular guidelines for peripheral vascular

disease so it turns out that in 2013 there there are kind of a couple of big vascular surgery

societies across the world so we have the Society for Vascular Surgery the European Society for

Vascular Surgery and then the World Federation for Vascular Societies and it turns out that all

those groups got together put their heads together and said you know what we need to have a unified

approach to the guideline management for vascular diseases and so that resulted in the global

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