CURRICULUM
What will you learn?
Knowledge and Understanding
  • Biomechanical principles
  • IRMER principles
  • Vascular haemodynamuc principles
  • Interpreting angiography images
  • Common types and shapes of wires, catheters, stents, etc.
  • Case-based discussions with a multidisciplinary meetings (MDTs) approach
Subject and Professional Skills
  • Setting effective workplace
  • Team & Tools preparations
  • Hybrid theatre setup
  • Reporting procedures
Practical Skills
  • Vascular access
  • Guidewire-catheter skills
  • Balloon angioplasty
  • Vascular stents
  • Selective catheterisation (aorto-iliacs, infrainguinals, etc)
  • Negotiating lesions and aneurysms
  • Best practice for carotid, aortas and peripheral arteries
Intellectual Skills
  • Optimising use of endovascular sets and tools
At a Glance ...
Vascular Access and Sheath
Learn how to select and secure vascular access & sheath for the type of procedure required, and how to deal with complications
Endovascular Tools
Learn about the different endovascular wires, catheters, balloons and stents. Best practice for handling the tools and choosing the right tool in the right time
Artery-specific Treatments
Learn how to deal with cannulation and lesions in different arteries and how to chose the tool for a smooth effective access and treatment
Disease-Specific Treatments
Learn how to chose the right treatment in disease-specific approach such as aneurysms, stroke, and others
In Depth ...

VASCULAR ACCESS & SHEATH
Vascular access
  • The 10 principles of a successful vascular access
  • Access points for different diseases/procedures
  • Setting up table and C-Arm
  • Antegrade femoral access: A step-by-step guide
  • Retrograde femoral access: A step-by-step guide
  • Accessing pulseless femoral artery
  • Proximal access: brachial, radial, SFA, popliteal and tibial arteries
  • Accessing to a bypass
  • Puncture site complications
Securing vascular sheath
  • The 10 principles of good sheath selection and usage
  • Principles of sheath management
  • Sheath sizing
  • Sheath insertion: a step-by-step guide
  • When to abandon
ENDOVASCULAR TOOLS
Handling Guidewires
  • Why guidewires are different
  • Handling guidewires
  • Guidewire-lesion interactions
  • Common Guidewires in use
  • Using Guidewires: a step-by-step guide
  • Tackling chronic occlusion
Handling Catheters
  • Describing catheter behaviour
  • Which catheter for what situation?
  • More on catheter head shape
  • Handling catheters
Special arteriographies
  • Anueurysm
  • IVUS
  • Pressure measurements
  • CO2 angiography
  • Ischaemic diabetic foot
Balloon angioplasty
  • Principles and practice
Stenting
  • Principles and practice
ARTERY-SPECIFIC TREATMENTS
Selective Cathetarisation
  • The 10 principles in selective catheterisation
  • Catheter options
  • Brachiocephalic catheterisation
  • Visceral, renal and iliac
  • Infrainguinal catheterisation
  • Prosthetic grafts catheterisation
Iliac Angioplasty
  • Step-by-step guide
  • Difficulties and challenges
  • Dealing with complications
  • Real life case review
SFA Angioplasty
  • Step-by-step guide
  • Difficulties and challenges
  • Dealing with complications
  • Real life case review
Tibial Angioplasty
  • Step-by-step guide
  • Difficulties and challenges
  • Dealing with complications
  • Real life case review
Renal Angioplasty
  • Step-by-step guide
  • Difficulties and challenges
  • Dealing with complications
  • Real life case review
Plantar Arch Angioplasty
  • Step-by-step guide
  • Difficulties and challenges
  • Dealing with complications
  • Real life case review
DISEASE-SPECIFIC TREATMENTS
Elective EVAR for abdominal aortic aneurysm
  • Step-by-step guide
  • Difficulties and challenges
  • Dealing with complications
  • Real life case review
EVAR for ruptured aneurysm
  • Step-by-step guide
  • Difficulties and challenges
  • Dealing with complications
  • Real life case review
TEVAR
  • Step-by-step guide
  • Difficulties and challenges
  • Dealing with complications
  • Real life case review
Emergency endovascular treatments
  • Thrombolysis
  • Aortic dissection
  • Iliac dissection
  • Distal embolisation
  • Aortic trauma
  • Limb trauma
Carotid stenting
  • Step-by-step guide
  • Difficulties and challenges
  • Dealing with complications
  • Real life case review
Contact us with any convenient way:

Call us or send an email:
Phone: +44 1932 251619 (Rebecca)
Email: admin@vssmasterclass.co.uk


Come to see our office
Vascular Simulation Solutions (VSS)
3000 Hillswood Drive,
Chertsey KT16 0RS
United Kingdom


How to get here:
We are located near a bus station and near a main road.

Bus The nearest bus station is St Peter's Hospital which lines 446, 461, 557 and 637 go through and is located 12 minutes away from the compound.

Train There are no train stations near the compound.

Private car The compound is located near M25. Just add the postcode to your SatNav.

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