Louise Hitchman
@hitchman_louise
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Vascular Surgery Trainee. NIHR doctoral research fellow in diabetic foot. Collector of hobbies. Terrible music taste.
Joined March 2020
Join the Vascular Groin ROSSINI Platform Audit! Help improve surgical site infection prevention in vascular groin surgery. ✅ 1-week data collection ✅ No patient follow-up ✅ Audit, authorship & £25 voucher draw! Oct 20–Nov 20, 2025 📧 ROSSINI.Vasculargroinaudit@gmail.com
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🐉 The VERN Dragons’ Den is back £3000 is up for grabs to support your research project- plus the opportunity to present nationally at the Vascular Society ASM 2025 in Hull. Submit your proposal today- deadline is the 22nd of September For more info- https://t.co/hFKw3DeUnG
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🚨 The wait is nearly over… VERN's Dragons’ Den launches tomorrow!
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🚨 New Publication🚨 VISTA - Vascular Interventions & Surgery in Trauma Audit is now published in @EJVES_ESVS 🙏 Huge thanks to brilliant co-authors, collaborators & supporting organisations who made this possible. 🔗 Full article available here - https://t.co/w8FIof3zF0
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Thank you @Medipex for the recognition and @chetter_ian ,@DanielCarradice ,@prof_thakker ,@VascularHull for the support !
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the category “Using AI to improve patient services or safety” is… Bharadhwaj Ravindhran from @HullHospitals: “Tailored risk assessment and forecasting in intermittent claudication”. #medipexawards2025
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Very please to see our study in print about cost-effectiveness and #Sustainability of remote first #PatientCare Congrats @rosslathan and team @HullYorkMed @NHSBartsHealth @EAES_eu @SAGES_Updates @ALSGBandI @ALSGBIAcademy
https://t.co/3vVb52Ulz4
nature.com
npj Digital Medicine - Postoperative remote first care for financially and environmentally sustainable healthcare
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Check out this video explaing the NIHR funded THRIVE trial to the public. Please Share to increase awareness and to help recruit patients. Thank you for recruiting over 1000 patients to date. Please yell if your site is not open yet! @VSGBI @ForumRsm
https://t.co/GYWScyE5b6
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Check out this patient and public focused video from @hitchman_louise. This @NIHR funded PhD project studied a promising new treatment for @DiabetesUK associated foot ulcers. Please help to spread this message far and wide. @VSGBI @LegsMatter @RoyColPod
https://t.co/db1TrSZccX
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Both lay summary videos of the trial and qualitative results are now live on @VascResearchUK YouTube channel. Thank you to everyone who took their time to be part of research, either as a participant or a PPI member Please share!
Check out this patient and public focused video from @hitchman_louise. This @NIHR funded PhD project studied a promising new treatment for @DiabetesUK associated foot ulcers. Please help to spread this message far and wide. @VSGBI @LegsMatter @RoyColPod
https://t.co/db1TrSZccX
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Check out this patient and public focused video from @hitchman_louise. This describes patients' experiences in this @NIHR funded PhD project studying a promising new treatment for @DiabetesUK associated foot ulcers. @VSGBI
@LegsMatter
@RoyColPod
https://t.co/CR1Dg3RyDO
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No clear evidence to support the use of Negative pressure in surgical wound healing by secondary intention! The results of SWHSI-2 RCT finally published in the Lancet!
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2024 Vascular Society BJS Prize Session from the @VSGBI ASM! 🏆✨ Congratulations to Ismay Fabre, winner of the BJS Prize, for her research on surgical site infections in major lower limb amputation (SIMBA). 📽️ Watch now: https://t.co/TajxQ1xJnB
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Following the success of the SIMBA audit, we’re proud to launch SIMBA-T, Surgical Site Infections in Major Lower Limb Amputation – Transmetatarsal Extension: An International Multicentre Audit (SIMBA-T). Sign up opens today! Be the first to register. https://t.co/7iFw65sYfZ
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Congratulations to Hannah Daysley, this year’s Dragon’s Den Winner 🌟
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🥁 SOLEFUL: pilot 3 arm RCT of shockwave therapy for DFU I learnt ALOT during my PhD time. Thank you to @chetter_ian @mrdavid_russell @CynthiaIglesia7 for all their support and supervision @NIHRresearch @DUK_research @HullYorkMed @VascularHull @VSGBI
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We are still recruiting centres to join the BLAST study. Twenty centres have entered over 600 patients into the database. By increasing participation, we can better understand and improve outcomes for our vascular patients. Sign up via the link- https://t.co/vnSFe4y27C
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Widespread non-adherence to guidelines in the operative management of diabetes-related foot disease complications ➡️ https://t.co/2k1bHXe5O3 This study reports widespread non-adherence to the IWGDF and GVG guidance in the context of DFD complications managed in the theatre
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