C. Wittens (The Netherlands)

Stations will be:

1. Duplex: DVT diagnostics
2. Airplethysmography
3. DVT treatment with Angiojet
4. DVT treatment with ultrasound accelerated CDT
5. Deep venous stenting
6. Ambulatory venous compression

• Pre-registration is required
• Limited number of participants: up to 30pax
  If you wish to participate in this workshop, you should sent a short e-mail with your contact details to Dr Cora Hazelzet (corahazelzet@live.nl). Registration in workshop means an obligation to attend.

• Are there topics where guidelines are not evidence-based and randomized trials are needed in access surgery?
• Algorithms for access creation in children and youngsters
• Elbow and upper arm fistulas: techniques and pitfalls
• Use of ultrasound in the creation and management of dialysis access
• Current evidence for stent and stent-graft use in access surgery
• Managing the complications and salvaging the access
• Thrombolysis and PTA in thrombosed access grafts

Tutors: N. Labropoulos (USA), D. Kardoulas (Greece), N. Liassis (Greece)

Ultrasonic practice in pre-operative assessment and the follow-up of vascular access Ultrasonically guided central venous catheterization

› Pre-registration is required
› Limited number of participants: up to 12pax

• Is it important for the treating physician to know how to measure an aneurysm and how to size and choose the adequate graft?
• Osirix. Basic features and characteristics of the program plus live demonstration on measuring and sizing an abdominal aortic aneurysm
• 3Mensio. Basic features and characteristics of the program plus live demonstration on measuring and sizing an abdominal aortic aneurysm

Hands-on Practice on Osirix and 3Mensio software on imaging, sizing and planning endovascular repair for abdominal aortic aneurysms

Supervisors:
Osirix: M. Matsagkas (Greece),A. Lazaris (Greece), G. Kouvelos (Greece)
3Mensio: I. Koncar (Serbia), S. Koutsias (Greece), N. Komichilis (Greece)

› Pre-registration is required
› Total number of participants: 12-20 pax (according to the availability of the workstations)
Unrestricted Educational Grand by Medtronic Hellas S.A.

• Patient selection for open and endovascular repair
• Open repair: techniques and pitfalls
• How to get endoluminal and subintimal recanalization?
• Advances in stent technology
• Which are the indications for catheter-directed thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy?
• Indications for tibial stenting
• A new technique for above-knee femoro-popliteal bypass
• Management of complications

Hands-on practice in endovascular simulator (60’ each group) and surgical on soft tissue models (60’ each group)

Endovascular simulator practice supervisors:

D. Tsetis (Greece), D. Karnabatidis (Greece), K. Papazoglou (Greece), S. Koutsias (Greece) Surgical practice supervisors:

J. Wolfe (U.K.), A. Lazarides (Greece), K. Filis (Greece), N. Bessias (Greece)

› Pre-registration is required
› Maximum Participants: Strictly 12 pax

Chairmen: E. Georgakarakos, Th. Fotis

• Nursing training in the new era of advanced endovascular techniques
• The value of check lists in everyday clinical practice.
  Experience of a vascular and interventional laboratory department”
• The role of nurses in infection prevention in Vascular surgery
• The nurse's role in the early diagnosis and prevention of diabetic foot ulcers
• Nursing Care of the patient with ulcers
• Central venous catheters in vascular surgery and access: materials, preparation, post-operative manipulation
• Closing remarks