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I been doing this 15 years as an attending and I have placed zero #Reboa and I’m willing to bet I’m not alone. Good surgical skills strong resuscitation Knowledge and system in place to get to the Or is the secret sauce Balloons are a piece of the puzzle 🧩 a very small piece

The Power of Industry in Medicine is tremendous, and the COST of speaking Truth to Power is real. This is one example of how industry attempts to influence the narrative within medicine. WesternTrauma Prytime Medical Devices, Inc. - is the largest suppliers of REBOA catheter in the U.S. 🧵

This is based on a study that was done where the following abstract was submitted and accepted to WesternTrauma: "The Undisclosed Disclosures: The Dollar-Outcome Relationship in Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta in Trauma"

The @westerntrauma program committee, which is compiled of numerous clinicians and researchers from all across the country accepted the abstract for presentation:

Now lets be clear about a few things: ✅ The relationship between clinicians and industry can be incredibly valuable ✅ I personally have no issue of educational or research type collaborations, and clinicians should be valued for the time they Invest

As background the goal of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act is to: ✅Improve transparency from industry to physicians ✅Mandates disclosures of all ‘payments’ or ‘transfers of value’ And all of this is publicly available at Openpaymentsdata.cms.gov

This study by Bellal Joseph and team looked at the relationship between physicians and the #REBOA industry evaluating Conflict of Interest (COI) disclosures. It is one of many studies that has looked at COI in disclosures: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30053509/

The authors did a study that ANYONE can replicate because it’s all open access. The definition of Inaccurate COI disclosure is: If at least 1 author received payment and did not report in the published study.

9. This is an example of how a BILLION dollar industry exerts influence when it doesn’t necessarily align with their interest. 10. I’m disgusted by this "hit piece" against both a credible organization and credible authors that are respected trauma researchers.

What I want to see is how WesternTrauma is going to respond to this. We must not be bullied by powerful corporations. I hope you publicly respond to Prytime Medical Devices, Inc. & that you RECORD and display the presentation so there is no confusion about what is presented. #MedTwitter

All eyes are now on the WesternTrauma leadership. Will they stand for the principles of academic freedom, peer review without pressure, and open discussion at a scientific meeting…

We will find out Tuesday morning. I will be in the audience, along with a thousand more, to bear witness WesternTrauma

Very important talk by Bellal Joseph at #WTA2023 on REBOA COI. Calls to mind Tom Fogarty’s famous quote that “No conflict = no interest”.

Tom Fogarty, one of most important surgical innovators ever: “No conflict = no interest”! Bravo Bellal Joseph

Happy international women’s day!

Well, that's a wrap on #WTA2023 at Lake Louise. Great science, skiing, socializing, and continuing the #FellowshipOfTheSnow . Thanks to our prolific social media members and friends, over 4M impressions and lots of great discussion! See everyone next year at Aspen Snowmass

Our very own Dr. Alexander DiBartolomeo (Alexander DiBartolomeo), integrated resident and current research fellow, presents his work on complex endovascular aortic repair at the Berne Symposium at Keck School of Medicine of USC @KeckMedUSC USC | LAG Surgery. FutureVascSurgeons #AortaEd #callvascular

Congratulations to Phil Goodney, the next Section Chief of Dartmouth Hitchcock Vascular Surgery! Joining a wonderful line of leaders in Vascular Surgery. With great anticipation and admiration! DartmouthSurgery DartmouthSurgicalHSR Dartmouth-Hitchcock Heart and Vascular Center

Congratulations Phil!

A great Western Vascular Society Bonfire Chat going on for our medical students as part of the Vascular Surgery Interest Group!! Christian de Virgilio MD FACS Vincent Wei Zhou Gregory A. Magee, MD MSc Heather Roderick