On June 21-23, 2019, the 5th Asia-Pacific Angiology Academic Alliance Conference in conjunction with 2019 International Annual Congress of Macau Health Bureau Doctors’ Association was grandly held in Macau, China. Liu Jianlin, Director of Department of Vascular Surgery, Head Nurse Zhou Hongyan and Associate Professor Yang Lin of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University were invited to attend and deliver speeches in the congress.
The conference concentrates upon the research progress on surgical treatment, interventional treatment, basic research and nursing treatment of vascular diseases in the field of vascular surgery, providing a comprehensive, multi-level and extensive platform for academic cooperation and exchange for all participants. Director Liu Jianlin, Head Nurse Zhou Hongyan and Associate Professor Yang Lin from Department of Vascular Surgery of our hospital were invited to deliver academic speeches, respectively. Director Liu Jianlin made a speech entitled "Hybrid procedures for patients with acute aortic dissection". In his speech, Professor Liu introduced the current status and experience of surgical treatment, minimally invasive interventional treatment and hybrid surgical treatment of aortic dissection based on the clinical experience of Department of Vascular Surgery of our hospital and captivated warm and intensive discussion from the presidium of the conference. Head Nurse Zhou Hongyan delivered a speech entitled "Pain management of patients with atherosclerotic occlusion of the lower extremity", illustrating relevant experience in the treatment of atherosclerotic occlusion of the lower extremity by Department of Vascular Surgery of our hospital. After the speech, the doctor-nurse cooperative medical mode of our hospital received high praise from the Chairman of the conference. Associate Professor Yang Lin made a keynote speech entitled "The clinical therapies of lower limb venous ulcers", introduced the experience in the treatment of lower limb venous diseases and explicitly illustrated the recent advancement in the minimally invasive treatment of lower limb varicose veins and stent treatment of lower limb venous stenosis, which received widespread attention from the audience.
