Advanced Skills in Vascular Surgery

Aimed at senior trainees and consultants, this course teaches a number of advanced and complex procedures associated with the later stages of training and vascular surgery.

Date: 15 - 17 June 2011	Fee: £1000
Held at: The Royal College of Surgeons of England	Status: Places available
Contact: education@rcseng.ac.uk or call: 020 7869 6300	Application Form

As EVAR becomes more widespread, AAAs are becoming a rarity, leaving difficult, technically challenging AAAs for open repair. New hybrid endovascular and open techniques mean that it is now feasible to repair AAAs that would have previously been considered in-operable. Complications such as MRSA graft infection are also an increasing challenge.

Simple fem-pop bypass is less common since the advent of subintimal angioplasty and medical management of claudicants but complex distal bypass is still required for limb salvage. At the same time as cases are becoming more complex and experience decreasing, results are subject to critical scrutiny as never before. Many of these cases present urgently when advice and assistance seem far away.

This course is here to help. It is, above all, a practical, hands-on course with cadaveric dissection to practice anatomical exposures and jigs to illustrate the unfamiliar techniques. We have a world class faculty of experienced vascular surgeons to update you on new developments, teach the techniques and tricks of the trade and provide interactive discussion of real cases.

Convenor

Mr Ian Chetter
Consultant in Vascular Surgery, Hull Royal Infirmary
Tutor in Vascular Surgery, The Royal College of Surgeons of England

Level

ST 5-8 and consultants

Content

• Exposure of the supra renal aorta
• Renal and visceral vessel artery re-implantation/revascularisation
• Control of the aorta at the diaphragm
• Hybrid endovascular and open techniques
• Management of the infected aortic graft
• Inflammatory AAA/pelvic kidney
• Iliac aneurysms
• Management of aorto-caval fistula/aorto-enteric fistula
• Alternative exposure of distal internal carotid
• Exposure of aortic arch and branches
• Approach to subclavian and vertebral     
  
• Subclavian transpotition
• Subclavian carotid bypass
• Transaxillary approach to first rib resection
• Approach to axillary artery
• Thoracoscopic sympathectomy

Format

• Interactive discussions
• Hands-on cadaveric dissection sessions
• Lectures
• Demonstrations