Underrepresentation of Vascular Surgery In Twitter-based Clinical Discussions On The Management Of Peripheral Arterial Disease

Increasingly, the social medial platform Twitter is used for discussion among physicians on a broad range of topics. Physicians have begun concerted efforts to use these platforms for specialty-specific branding and promotion to other physicians. There has been a trend in sharing de-identified clinical vignettes to further these goals (figure 1). We analyzed a year of clinical vignettes relating to peripheral arterial disease (PAD) management, and assess the participation of vascular surgery (VS), and the discussion of open vascular reconstruction.

Source: Annals of Vascular Surgery - January 31, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Reid A. Ravin, Daniel K. Han, Kassandra Carrion, Nicole Ilonzo, Peter L. Faries Source Type: research