Vascular access strategies in the elderly We are pleased to announce another course in the Vascular Access Pathway, in collaboration with the Vascular Access Society (VAS)!  Join: Flavia Gentile, Joris Rotmans, Matteo Tozzi & Maarten Snoejis  Objective The optimal vascular access for elderly patients remains a challenge, considering their comorbidities, life expectancy, higher risk of central venous catheter infection. Experts in the field will share their experience with regards to dialysis access in this specific population. The course is designed to give the participants wider knowledge useful in their daily practice. By attending this course, participants will learn treatment strategies in hemodialysis elderly patients . A thought that there is no unique and perfect treatment modality for each patient will be presented and highlighted. It may be useful for you to read "Vascular Access: 2018 Clinical Practice Guidelines of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) DOI link" before the session. Target audience: The course is designed for vascular surgeons who are performing vascular access surgery. An intermediate level of knowledge of vascular access is expected. Registration and Cancellation policy: € 25 for ESVS members and € 30 for non-members. Please note that the course is dependent on final registration numbers. Where registration numbers are too […]

We are pleased to announce a course in the aortic Pathway! Join: Zoran Rancic, Christos Karkos, Fernando Gallardo, Igor Koncar, Ferdinanc Serracino-Inglott & Enrico Gallitto Objective Endovascular procedures on aortic aneurysms and dissection are increasingly encountered in clinical practice. Such a procedure requires careful and accurate sizing and planning as this step will prevent unexpected and undesirable complications during the intervention. In order to improve accuracy, planning of aortic procedures by segmentation, creating centre lumen line and stretching the aorta measuring accurately lengths while orthogonal cross sections are used for accurate diameter measurements. Beside length, and diameter measurement of angulation and in advance definition of C-arm position secure safe and precise stent-graft deployment. A software will be used to make demonstrations during the course. The theoretical part of the workshop will introduce participants to the pathology of thoracic aorta, important features diagnosis, steps of the TEVAR stent-graft deployment, and the consequences of mistakes occurred at this step. Specific clinical situations will be addressed and pathognomonic signs of different thoracic diseases. Thus the course is designed to give the participants wider knowledge useful in their daily practice. By attending this course, participants will familiarize themselves with one software for sizing and […]