Virtual assistants for vascular surgeons

South West Vascular Surgeons

s of South West Vascular Surgeons Meeting held at St. Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth, 14 February 1992 PSEUDOXANTHOMA ELASTICUM CAUSING CLAUDICATION. W. G. Prout. Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth. Pseudoxanthoma elasticum is a heritable disorder of elastic fibre leading to characteristic skin changes, angioid occular streaking and cardio-vascular problems. A 34 year old man presenting with int...

S.W. Vascular Surgeons

An Ontology-Based Dialogue Management System for Virtual Personal Assistants

Dialogue management (DM) is a difficult problem. We present OntoVPA, an Ontology-Based Dialogue Management System (DMS) for Virtual Personal Assistants (VPA’s). The features of OntoVPA are offered as potential solutions to core DM problems. We illustrate OntoVPA’s solutions to these problems by means of a running VPA example domain. To the best of our knowledge, OntoVPA is the first commerciall...

South West Vascular Surgeons, February 1990 Meeting

This study reviewed 113 elderly patients after embolectomy over a 10 year period, (median age 77, M:F 46:67). The 30 day mortality was 43%. This was associated with, age >80yrs., failed embolectomy, and aorto-iliac occlusions (P<0.05). Median long term survival was 29 months, (range 1-126), with most deaths in the first year, and a good survival after this. The most common subsequent vascular e...

Endovascular interventions training and credentialing for vascular surgeons.

This article reviews issues concerning the training and credentialing of vascular surgeons in the use of endovascular techniques in the peripheral vascular system. These guidelines update a prior document that was published in 1993. They have been rewritten to accommodate the rapid evolution that has occurred in the field and to provide the appropriate requirements that a vascular surgeon shoul...