Vascular Medicine
摘要
Vascular medicine is a tender spot for both medicine and surgery residents, catastrophic rupture of major arteries to swollen leg, purple leg with/out pain. The reasons that vascular medicine is challenging is you must know anatomy as well as disease management. William Osler said we are as old as our arteries. If patients have PAD in their PMHx, that should alert you a red flag for medicine team. For surgery team, be aware how to manage blood sugar (diabetes) and blood pressure (hypertension), and cholesterol.