What are Vascular Surgeons?
Vascular surgery is a surgical subspecialty in which vascular diseases involving the arteries, veins, or lymphatic vessels, are managed by medical therapy, minimally-invasive catheter procedures, and surgical reconstruction.
How Many Vascular Surgeons In South Africa?
Currently, 65 vascular surgeons serve a population of 60 million.
What is the difference between a vascular surgeon and a vascular specialist?
While vascular surgeons are well trained in vascular surgery, often the care patients receive is not surgical in nature. Vascular specialists spend much of their clinical day making the diagnosis or making recommendations for continued care.
What makes a good vascular surgeon?
Vascular surgeons must have manual dexterity, stamina, and visuo-spatial awareness. Emotional resilience is needed to deal with patients and their families when outcomes are not as expected.
How long is vascular surgery?
There are many different types of vascular surgical procedures—your operation may involve open surgery or minimally invasive techniques, and it can last between 30 minutes to several hours. You will begin to recover from surgery and anesthesia in the hours after your operation.
Which surgeon makes the most money in South Africa?
Having said that, the number 1 highest-paying specialist doctor is a neurosurgeon. Studying to be a neurosurgeon in South Africa is quite a rigorous, extensive process—not to mention stressful—which is why these specialist doctors are paid up to an average of R3. 3 million Rand a year.