Description

In February 2010, Frost & Sullivan surveyed 157 vascular surgeons, interventional cardiologists, and interventional radiologists on a broad range of issues relating to peripheral intervention procedures. This study is based on their responses to an extensive online questionnaire. The study addresses balloons and stents, atherectomy devices, thrombectomy devices, and endovenous ablation. A wide variety of topics are covered in the study, including respondents’ purchasing authority; referral pathways; treatment selection criteria; patient awareness of/receptivity to treatment options; procedures currently in use and likely to be adopted; and primary, secondary, and last-resort treatment options by pathology.