Thank you to everyone who’s participated in SIMBA so far! 🦁 With 57 sites enrolled & over 400 entries on our database, we plan to perform an interim analysis and return of outcome data. So, could all sites please upload their current data to REDCAP by 14/02/24 🙏🏽

Are you involved in SIMBA? Have you uploaded your current data? If not, please do. The deadline to do this is tomorrow! 🦁🙌🏽

Could not recommend enough! An opportunity to be mentored in developing both clinical and academic skills

Great to see VERN's collaborative #GIVEstudy and systematic review informing some of the discussion at #EVC2024's 'It's all about the groin' session! EJVES

‼️New International Study‼️ BLAST- Blood Loss, Anaemia and haemoSTasis management in Vascular Surgery 60% of our patients require a perioperative transfusion yet there is no consensus on the use of haemostatic agents. Collaborative Authorship Opportunities! ⬇️Sign up below ⬇️

Data collection for our latest international audit opens today It is not too late to get involved. Sign up through the link docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… or visit vascular-research.net/blast/ for more details

🔬🌍 Vascular centres worldwide, join the BLAST project to advance our understanding of perioperative blood loss in major open vascular surgery! Be part of groundbreaking research that saves lives. Sign up now and make a global impact! #VascularSurgery #MedicalInnovation 🚀

Recruitment for BLAST is on going! Contribute to vital research on perioperative blood loss in major open vascular surgery. Let's advance patient care together. Sign up here tinyurl.com/2wwrrbn4

Do you have an innovative vascular research project you're passionate about? Want VERN support and funding? Dragon's Den returns at this year's Vascular Society Annual Scientific Meeting! Present your groundbreaking proposal to be in the chance of winning! #VSASM2024 Vascular Society

As the end of the summer months approach, August has been quiet for the trial so far, with less than half the number of participants randomised compared with June & July. Please remember to consider PLACEMENT when consenting patients for major lower limb amputation surgery😇

Got an innovative vascular research project? 🌟 Pitch it at Dragon's Den during the Vascular Society Annual Meeting for a chance to receive VERN support and funding! Over 5 publications and £20K awarded since its inception Submit your project proposal before the 9th of September

Final weekend to get your abstract in! Win up to £3000 towards your research project and VERN support! Since its inception we have helped over 5 projects get published and awarded over £2000 DEADLINE IS THE 9th OF SEPTEMBER

📢New Project Launch📢 Following on from the publication success of CAASP and Definite VERN is launching another study- The ARM Ischaemia Study This INTERNATIONAL research project aims to compare treatment strategies and outcomes of acute upper limb ischaemia Sign up below ⬇️

Building on the recent publication success of CAASP and DEFINITE in high-impact journals, VERN is pleased to announce the launch The ARM Ischaemia Study Acute upper limb ischaemia (AULI) is a critical vascular emergency characterised by the abrupt loss of arterial

Widespread non-adherence to guidelines in the operative management of diabetes-related foot disease complications ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjs/zn… This study reports widespread non-adherence to the IWGDF and GVG guidance in the context of DFD complications managed in the theatre

Congratulations to Hannah Daysley, this year’s Dragon’s Den Winner 🌟

Following the success of the SIMBA audit, we’re proud to launch SIMBA-T, Surgical Site Infections in Major Lower Limb Amputation – Transmetatarsal Extension: An International Multicentre Audit (SIMBA-T). Sign up opens today! Be the first to register. vascular-research.net/simba-t/

VERN excited to announce that we are expanding the committee. We are advertising for one position: Allied health professional representative. If you want to become a member of VERN and contribute to vascular research, follow the link: vascular-research.net/recruitment

With a few days to go until data collection starts for SIMBA-T, 20 centres are already signed up! Don't miss out! Register your centre at: bistc.redcap.bham.ac.uk/surveys/?s=H7Y…

📢Exciting news!📢 The largest surgical trial ever funded in the UK is set to open, which will see 26,000 patients recruited to test interventions to make future operations safer. Read about the £10m ROSSINI-Platform trial, led by Prof Thomas Pinkney👇 birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/larg…