Contemporary Endovascular Outcomes for Critical Limb Ischemia Are Still Failing to Meet Society for Vascular Surgery Objective Performance Goals

Abstract

The Society for Vascular Surgery created objective performance goals for critical limb ischemia (CLI) in 2009. It has previously been shown that endovascular therapy for CLI was not meeting these benchmarks. The objective performance goal for all peripheral interventions is <8% for major adverse cardiac events (MACE), <8% for major adverse limb event (MALE), and <3% for major amputation. The goal of this study is to evaluate if outcomes have improved for CLI in recent years.