Vascular Surgery

We diagnose and manage vascular diseases, providing surgical service for people who have problems relating to their blood vessels. 

Services include:

• a full range of venous and arterial surgery
• assisting in renal transplants and providing access for haemodialysis
• diagnostic angiography, x-rays to look at arteries
• endovascular procedures, looking inside blood vessels
• treatment for blockages following bypass graft surgery.

Outpatient Department, Level 3 (ground floor), Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Check appointment information and screens on arrival at the RAH, for the specific location.

The Vascular Surgery service for Central and Northern Adelaide is based at the RAH.

However we consult and operate at several sites across both networks based on disease complexity and patient needs. We aim to provide care as close to the patients home as possible.

Consultants

• Dr Conor Marron – Head of Unit

You need a referral from a GP or medical practitioner to access this service.

Once your referral has been received it will be triaged according to clinical urgency.

If your referral is accepted, you will either:

• receive a letter, phone call or text message confirming your appointment time, date and location
• receive a letter confirming you have been waitlisted for an appointment.

If the referral is declined, your GP or referring medical practitioner will be notified.

Contact us to:

• change your appointment time
• cancel your appointment
• find out triage status
• general outpatient enquiries.

If you need to cancel or change your appointment time, let us know as soon as possible.

We accept GP and specialist referrals to this service.

eReferrals are preferred. 

Use the Clinical Prioritisation Criteria (CPC) as a referral guide. 

To ensure timely triage, include all demographic and clinical details. 

The service triages referrals according to clinical urgency. 

This program, part of Vascular Surgery, provides a centralised remote surveillance program for clinically stable patients.

This remote surveillance program provides a service for patients who do not have a clinical need to attend the outpatient department for review, but require ongoing imaging for either established vascular disease or following vascular intervention.

The program is managed by a full time vascular nurse under the supervision of consultant vascular surgeons.

Clinically stable patients are offered enrolment into the program by their treating consultant and can elect to be monitored by remote review of surveillance imaging (usually Duplex ultrasound), in lieu of routine outpatient clinic appointments after the scan is performed.

• The clinician may recommend an imaging provider at the time of enrolment. This may be the closest provider to the patient’s home, or a provider who has specialty skills in vascular ultrasound imaging
• The specialist vascular ultrasound providers (Vascular Ultrasound partners, Adelaide Vascular and SA Medical Imaging) bulk-bill all studies. Other private radiology providers may or may not bulk-bill the patient. Any financial interests of the surgeon e.g ownership of the scanning practice will be disclosed to the patient when selecting the scanning location
• GPs are advised of each patient’s enrolment into the program and is regularly updated with imaging reports
• Clinical review in the vascular outpatient department is organised by the surveillance clinical nurse if there are any concerns noted on routine imaging.

For any concerns regarding the program including monitoring of patients, contact the Vascular surveillance clinical nurse.