Page 3 - Virtual Vascular Vol 3

Non-salvageable Legs

PREFACE
Preface

The momentum is kept. We have produced Volume 3 in record time with
contents to spare. More videos, more illustrations. This issues contains 19

videos and 80 pages.

While this issue contained more in depth coverage of certain advanced topics

like hemodialysis access and aortic dissection, it is still good reading for those
who have not been attached to Vascular Surgery and wished to have an
understanding of the diversity of our work. For students I reiterate these are
for stimulating interest and clinical exposure rather than for memorizing and

reciting in exams.

We continue to provide further insights into Vascular Ultrasonography in a
series of videos produced by our staff.

September 2020 also marks the completion of the mission of our K11 imaging

system in the hybrid operating theatre, and we have recorded a last video
before the installation of a new system.

Stephen Cheng
Head, Department of Surgery

Delayed presentation of bilateral acute lower limb ischaemia.
The feet are cold, paralysed, insensate, with fixed mottling.

The lower limbs are NOT salvageable.
In elderly patients with co-morbidity this is a life-threatening condition
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