Evidence-based Therapy in Vascular Surgery

This book is an introduction to quality initiative for vascular surgery and medicine. It will help to introduce the best available treatment options into clinical practice. For the 21 major vascular surgical diseases, this book enables targeted evidence-based treatment choice. Basics are the most recent published treatment results of open surgery and endovascular procedures. - What do international guidelines recommend? - Which treatment results have been published in recent Cochrane reviews, structured and systematic reviews, and meta-analyses? How are they to be interpreted? - Which new randomized trials exist? - What are the results in international registries? - How do the results in centres differ from those in medium and low volume hospitals? Analysis of the data leads to well-justified differentiated treatment recommendations that can be applied directly in hospitals, clinics and practices. The book will help to raise the level of patient safety, quality of care and training of junior vascular physicians.

About the Author

Eike Sebastian Debus is Professor for Surgery and Chair of the Department of Vascular Medicine, University of Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. Sebastian Debus was Secretary General of the European Society for Vascular Surgery 2015-2020 and elected deputy President for 2024/2025. He was President of the German Vascular Society 2013/2014, chairs the Northern German Society of Surgery and 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´, Gefässchirurgie, Springer, founding Editor of GefäßmedizinScan (Thieme) and is member of the editorial board of varios international journals. His main research interests are vascular epidemiology and vascular care, aortic pathologies, peripheral occlusive disease and venous reconstructions. He is co-founder of thegerman vascular registry program and is engaged in various projects of the European Society for Vascular Surgery, editor of several textbooks and author/co-author of more than 250 peer reviewed papers.

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

Reinhart T. Grundmann works currently as a medical expert and consultant in an independent position. 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 Altötting-Burghausen, Germany. He was managing editor of the Zentralblatt für Chirurgie from 1992 to 2008 and is currently member of the editorial board of the World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. From 2001 to 2005 he edited annually the Jahrbuch für Chirurgie, a book that provides information on the latest developments in surgery. In the years 2015 and 2019 he edited together with Sebastian Debus the first and second German editions of Evidence-based Therapy in Vascular Surgery. Reinhart T. Grundmann has published more than 380 scientific publications, including books and book chapters. His recent research interests lie in the field of efficacy and effectiveness in surgery.